218327 - Newsgroup posts send user part of email address instead of "Your Name" field.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Joe T.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 (20030901)

Began using TB 0.2 yesterday, and after a few ng posts in
netscape.mozilla.firebird, noticed that the sender column is showing the user
part of my email address rather than the "Your name" field.

Account settings:
Your name: joe t.
Email address: thook[DELETE][e-mail]

Sender column for my posts shows: thook[DELETE]erov

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See netscape.mozilla.thunderbird or .firebird
2. Look for my posts.

To do it yourself, i don't know. Most everyone else's name seems to appear
correctly.


Expected Results:  
TBird should be displaying "joe t." in the sender column, as it did in 0.1 and
all other Mozilla mail clients.

Comment 1

[Joe T.]

Attachment: Screen shot of the issue

The top item highlighted was posted with TB 0.2, the bottom was posted with (i
think) TB 0.1.

Comment 2

[Joe T.]

Tried deleting the secnews account and recreating (running into <A
HREF="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216245">bug#216245</A>) the
account. Problem still exists.

Comment 3

[Joe T.]

Upon suggestion, i removed the [ ] brackets from the email address. All is well
now. Must have been the brackets that were confusing TBird. At least, that's the
only explanation i have. i don't know if this still qualifies as a bug, since no
one else has tried it. i suppose it's bad to include invalid characters for an
email address in that field, eh?