189263 - Sending with no To: field, gives me back an e-mail with To:undisclosed-recipients:;

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Oz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

When I send a piece of e-mail with no To: field and only with Bcc: to myself,
Mozilla gives me a piece of e-mail with To:undisclosed-recipients:;. So when I
do "Edit massage as new" or "Reply to all", Mozilla makes a e-mail template with
To:undisclosed-recipients:; or CC:undisclosed-recipients:;.

Before 1.3a, Mozilla did not produce such a recipients. For what purpose 1.3a
generates this? 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send yourself a piece of e-mail without To and CC fileds.
   The Bcc field is needed to be filled with your address.
2. Get the e-mail.
3. Do "Edit massage as new" or "Reply to all" and you can find the To or CC
field filled with undisclosed-recipients:;.

Actual Results:  
You can find the To or CC field filled with undisclosed-recipients:;.

Expected Results:  
No undisclosed-recipients:; to any fields.

Comment 1

[Richi Jennings]

Reproduced with 1.4-RC2 on WinXP-SP2 - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612.

The most irritating part of this is that if I'm working offline, the message
that gets put in Unsent is now unsendable! Hence, I suggest severity should be
increased to Major.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is still true in 1.4RC3, and I can't find a dupe, so I'm confirming.

I'm not sure, however, if this will actually get fixed.  Mozilla isn't the only 
mail client that does this.  It only happens if *all* the addresses are BCC's.

It would be nice for Reply or Edit-as-New to check for "undisclosed" before 
filling in the fields.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

This is the valid syntax following RFC 2822. Marking Invalid.

Comment 4

[Richi Jennings]

No, Pascal, you have misunderstood the bug. Please re-open this: it is not
"invalid".

If you create a message with only BCC recipients, and then File|SendLater, it
will not send! This is a MAJOR severity bug.

Comment 5

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Richie, what you describe is indeed a bug, but it does not correspond to the
description of this bug report. Please file a new bug report about it, I will
confirm it.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

mozilla1.4 shipped. unsetting blocking1.4 request.

Comment 7

[Wayne]

This is not resolved.  If I forward a previously sent e-mail (which had a bc to myself) without putting anything in the to field I get the e-mail showing undisclosed recipients.  In the case where this is a personal or sensitive e-mail seeing undisclosed recipients is very disconcerting.