216114 - Mailing list creates cards & lists with no email addresses

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Ed Biow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I created a mailing list with the address book and added names by typing a few
letters of the display names and hitting Enter after each one. Typically I my
address book entries are formatted with only a display name, Last_Name,
First_Name & an email address (I don't use the First or Last name fields because
then I just have to redo the way I like it in the Display name field).

 I closed Mozilla and reopened it and looked at my address book.  At the
beginning of the address book were new listings with no names attached to them
and the email addresses listed as only Last_Name.  I went to my new mailing list
card and also noted that the entries were now only the last names of the folks
that I had entered (i.e. the real email address, only the last names, no names
formatted the way I normally do).  There didn't seem to be any way to get
information of the newly reformatted addresses on the list by using the context
menu, etc.  Sending an email with the List resulted in some of the messages
being delivered to the underlying email addresses and some being attempted to
delivered to Last_Name@My_Domain.com.  

Strangely, if I just manually entered the email address in the List and closed
the mailing list "Properties" dialogue box, the next time I opened the list it
had my new entry's email address and the normal display name in the box. 
However when I closed the Address application and reopened it, it did what it
"normally" does, e.g. stripped out the real email address, created a new
"Last_Name" for email address entry at the beginning of the address book, etc.

Oh, and some of the semi-blank names that I elimanated on the new list and in
the broken entries with no name wouldn't kick up when I attempted to re-type
them in the mailing list Properties dialogue box, e.g. entering "Last_N..."
wouldn't kick up "Display_Name" <email address> for that entry (though it would
still do it for other entries.

Basically, on this computer in this build the mailing list seems broken.  I
haven't tried rebooting to see if that would make a difference.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a new list
2. Enter names on the list.
3. Close the email list properties, close the address book.
4. Re-open the address book.
5. New "no name" address would be in the address book, the proper formatting was
lost in the newly minted list.

Actual Results:  
New entries without name created at top of address book, formatting lost in new
list.

Expected Results:  
No new entries created, formatting should have remained in the reopened list.

Comment 1

[Ed Biow]

Oh, it appears that the reason I couldn't kick up the names with a few 
keystrokes on the mailing list properties was that when I eliminated the 
mailing list weird entries and the new "no name" address book cards, it 
actually also seemed to delete my normal address book cards for those entries.  
I guess the reason for that is that I hadn't mentioned that for some of these 
weird entries when I went to my original contact card I noticed two identical 
entries.  I tried to delete one, but had no effect, so I deleted the other.  
This left one card still there, but when I reopened the address book it wasn't 
there any more.

Comment 2

[Michael A. Koenecke]

I get this behavior too: I have tried several times to create a mailing list for
the soccer team I coach. I drag addresses to the "Digimon" mailing list, and odd
blank duplicates are created. Then, upon trying to use the actual list, I get
errors stating that no domain is specified for, example, "Jones" when in fact
the address is (e.g.) "[e-mail]." The Thunderbird address book is
seriously dysfunctional.

Comment 3

[Joe Infla]

I think this is a dupe of bug 133586, or at least strongly related.

Comment 4

[e35173]

Regardless how many times you enter all the required address card information
and save the mailing list, the next time the mailing list is accessed the card
information is either missing or curiously incomplete, i.e., the name will have
been retrained but not the email address.  Basically, the mailing list feature
is unusable, which means back to Outlook Express (blech!).

Comment 5

[Joe Infla]

(In reply to comment #0)
> address book entries are formatted with only a display name, Last_Name,
> First_Name & an email address (I don't use the First or Last name fields because
> then I just have to redo the way I like it in the Display name field).

I just noticed this specific statement could indicate similarity to bug 117846
comment 6.  Reporter, if your preferred format involves entering commas in the
Display Name field, then this bug is most likely a duplicate of that bug, in
which Display Name commas can destroy the cards of a mailing list when the
mailing list is edited.

Ed Biow (reporter), please respond in the bug with some comment on whether you
agree with that analysis and the duplicate designation.  If not, please indicate
the specific format you use when writing your display names, and clarify how you
enter "Last_Name" fields but not "Last name" fields.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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