264175 - Mailing lists are not useable when forwarding mail

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Rene Rask]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1

Address Book lets me create a "Mailing list" with contacts. I would like to
forward a mail to those contacts using the "Mailing list" I created, but there
is no way I can add it to the To: field.
Writing the name of the list enables autocompletion but it autocompletes to a
broken address.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a mailing list named "friends" and add a bunch of friends to it.
2. Choose a mail and press the "forward" button
3. Start writing "friends" and use autocomplete to select the list
4. Selecting the list ind the Address Book and pressing "Add to To:" also gives
the same broken email.
Actual Results:  
Adding the list "friends" to the To: field results in 'friends <"friends">'
being added.


Expected Results:  
I would expect adding "friends" would add the whole list of friends emails.
Or that a placeholder be used so that when I press send the placeholder would be
resolved to actual email addresses.


The Mailing list feature only works when creating a new mail from the address book.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Which build of TB are you using?

With TB 0.8, Win2K, I'm not seeing any difference in the handling of a list 
between Forward Message and New Message.  It does indeed show something like
  Listname <"List Description">
but that gets resolved to all the individual addresses when you send it.

Comment 2

[Rene Rask]

Sorry, I must have gotten confused. It does work.

Please close this bug.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=>Invalid per reporter's comment 2.