I created a new contact in my address book and inadvertanly misspelled the address; it would be helpful if I got a return email that told me that my email was undeliverabledue to an invalid address.
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: wmrdean, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763
Steps to reproduce:
I recently added a new contact to my address book. I inadvertently had a mis-spelling in the email address, and I 'm confident that the address I entered was non-existent.
Actual results:
I sent an email to the new contact, and it appeared that it had been delivered. When I called the contact to ask why I had not gotten any response to my email, she told me that she had never gotten my email. I then looked at my address book, and discovered my typo.
Expected results:
I would like to have received a message back that my email was undeliverable as no such address existed. I realize that this is perhaps not a "bug" as such but it would be a good feature. Of course, I will try harder in the future to double-check the spelling of the address when adding a new contact.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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When I tried to submit this bug, I was asked for the version. I'm not much of a techie, and I could not figure out what version of thunderbird I have. So I entered version 5 as a guess.
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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(In reply to William Dean from comment #1)
When I tried to submit this bug, I was asked for the version. I'm not much of a techie, and I could not figure out what version of thunderbird I have. So I entered version 5 as a guess.
Are you absolutely sure nobody on that provider doesn't have the misspelled email address?
It is up to the email provider to return a message to Thunderbird that the message was undelivered.
You can find the version of Thunderbird by using Help > Troubleshooting Information.
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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What you looking for is something like Bug 193303 - Need a bounced mail management function. But as Walt said, everything relies on the receiving system notifying you of an error
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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As suggested, I went to Thunderbird Help and found that I'm using version 68.3.1 but I also saw an indication of Mozilla 5.0. I was questioned as to whether I was absolutely sure that the address as I entered it was invalid. Let me answer this way. My contact was an individual at Charles Schwab & Co. Schwab uses an address pattern of "Firstname.Lastname@schwab.com". My careless error was that I entered the corporate name as "scwab" rather than "schwab", but the individual's name was entered correctly. Could it be that no bounce back was generated due to there being no such provider as "scwab.com?
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