243947 - Address book user attribute (message send format) is case-sensitive during address autocomplete

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Rob Lucke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

I frequently enter or re-enter an email address to make them more readable.  The
address book differentiates between "[e-mail]" and
"[e-mail]" when determining the type of message to send
(i.e. plain text, HTML, or "ask").  In other words, if the reply-to message
email address case does not match (exactly) the case in the address book, the
default "ask me" action is taken.  Mozilla does this also, and I finally figured
out what was happening.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Place an entry in the address book with MuLtIpLe CaSe and select "wants to
receive HTML"
2.Send an email such that the received address does not match the addressbook entry
3.Reply to the message with text that contains HTML
4.Be sure to make the choice of how you want the message sent when the dialog
pops up ... 8^)

Actual Results:  
The mail client prompts for the message send type, saying "Some recipients are
listed as not being able to send HTML, select message format, ..." or similar
message.  I am presented with the three format choices.

Expected Results:  
It should have matched the attributes I set for the user's email address,
whether or not the address book entry contained upper/lower-case combinations.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

if I understand the steps correctly (it's possible I do not) this WFM in thunderbird 2.  Thorsten, you might have a look at this.

created one AB default=html, second with default=plain.
version 2.0.0.13pre (20080207)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> WFM 
reporter writes "I don't see the issue in the latest Thunderbird (I have 2.0.0.12 on OpenSUSE 10.3), but I don't use it as my primary email client any more"