268356 - Unchecking 'bcc news messages to email address' does not stop attempts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Keith Worrell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5

I wanted all of my news messages I was posting for school to be forwarded to my
email account for backup. I didn't configure the smtp server properly and didn't
really feel like taking the time to figure it out just yet.  I went back to news
account 'properties' and unchecked the box without clearing the field that
contained the email address.  the next few messages hung again still tring to
send to that 'bad' email address. I went back and had to re-check the option in
order to delete the email address from the field, and then uncheck it. Now it
works fine as it did before.

Not a hude bug, but a bug.  It was odd it required a null string to disregard
the option, and that the check box only disabled the text box.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check news account property 'bbc posts'
2. type in email address
3. disable 'bbc posts
4. post to news group

Actual Results:  
attempted to bbc email address in disabled field

Expected Results:  
posted the message without attempting to bbc the email address

I am a noob to Unix in general, one week old.  I am completly microsoft free and
have easily found Debian and Gnome much easier and more stable / practical /
everything better then windows xp pro...  mostly.  It has been pretty self
explanitory.

Relevance : I am pretty clueless to anything else that may have been going on
that would have been relevent, but kudos to the project and your time (whomever
is reading this)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Are you using multiple identities?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Karsten Düsterloh]

The default BCC gets copied to the compose window. If you have the compose window open while disabling the default in the account manager, the BCC (of course!) won't go away in the compose window, you need to delete it manually there - only new compose windows would now not have that default set...

Other than that, the BCC only gets used if the checkbox is set, no need to clear the textbox in current trunk => WFM.