245054 - autocomplete uses my identity's domain as the first result when I start addressing the e-mail

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Thelma]

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

When I am composing a new message, after the first 2 letters of the person's
address, the software autocomplete with my own e-mail. For example, if I want to
send a message to [e-mail], after I typied j o, I get on the first
line [e-mail]
Is there any way to avoid this? 
Thank you.
Thelma

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

This is what is suposed to happen. If you keep typing the next letters the
address you actually want will come as a sugestion.

If you want to turn off address autocompletion go to
Edit->Preferences->Mail&Newsgroups->Addressing

If this solves your problem, please mark the bug as WorksForMe.

Comment 2

[Thelma]

Thank you for the prompt answer.
I do not want to desactivate the autocomplete feature. It is good to have it. My
question is why my e-mail pops up as the final part of the address? It stays in
the first line, before the other addresses.
I never typed it in my address book. 
Thank you.
Thelma

Comment 3

[Bogdan Stroe]

Maybe your address was added somehow to the Collected Addresses list.
See also the discussion in bug 213420.

Comment 4

[Christian Eyrich]

As long as the local part doesn't match an entry in the address book, the domain
part of your identity is taken.
Especially in enterprise environment it's very likely that the addressee will be
in the same domain as you are. Mozilla makes just a guess.

Do you just don't like it or does it cause any problems?

Comment 5

[Thelma]

It caused me a problem when, by mistake, I clicked on the very top line where
Mozilla added my address to my colleague's e-mail. Her name with my
portuguesetranslator.net address was sent to a client who just "replied all",
meaning, my colleague never received the necessary information from our client
because of that.
My address is not on my addressbook, so I feel that it is not necessary to have
that very top line where Mozilla adds our own address there. In a corporate
business it may be useful, but for one single user with one single profile, this
extra line on top does not make too much sense. If I could I would like to
avoid/cancel this feature, but without canceling the autocomplete address. Is
there any way to do that? Thanks a million. Thelma

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this is by design.

for the relevant code, see

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/components/compose/content/MsgComposeCommands.js#2791
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSession.cpp#131

notice that when you get back results, even though we show
"whatyoutyped"@defaultdomain as the first choice, if you hit return we'll
actually take the second item, the best match.