275864 - The e-mail address autocomplete feature completes things I don't want to have

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 93453

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Yves Goergen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Enter an address that you copied from a website, that doesn't have an @
character in it, like "prename.lastname at provider.com", the cursor it at the
end of the line. Then move the cursor to the left and immediately, an
"@mydomain.tld" will be added - now the cursor is again at the end of the line.
This is highly undesired behaviour and I cannot even remove that wrong autothing
without getting it back again immediately. Can you please make it remain silent
when I'm not forward-editing an address but editing it, like replacing an " at "
with an "@" or some other common operations?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter "prename.lastname at provider.tld"
2. Move the cursor to the left
Actual Results:  
@mydomain.tld is added to the address, the cursor is moved to the end of the line

Expected Results:  
The editor behaves like any other Windows textbox - don't add anything and don't
even move the cursor somewhere else while I'm doing so

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

> Expected Results:  
> The editor behaves like any other Windows textbox - don't add anything and
> don't even move the cursor somewhere else while I'm doing so

You want autocompletion turned off entirely?  For all cases?  That seems 
extreme.  I can see wanting to turn off the localdomain completion -- if that's 
your main problem, I suggest duping this to bug 93453.  See also bug 278992, 
which is about a more specific situation that's similar to your original bug 
report.

Comment 2

[Yves Goergen]

> You want autocompletion turned off entirely?  For all cases?

No, not turn it off, but neither let it invent arbitrary new addresses that
don't even exist and than insist on this is right when I know it is wrong. I
very much dislike this behaviour that the software keeps making the same mistake
again and again within seconds when I told it that this was wrong. Stupid. Why
should I write an e-mail to my own domain, I'm almost the only user here. OK,
dupe it to some other bug if you like, they sound similar.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Why should I write an e-mail to my own domain, I'm almost the only user here.

On my primary domain, there are a lot of users to whom I write mail to their 
userids, and the completion works for me.   Altho some commenters at the dupe 
were adamant that this behavior is just a bug, and shouldn't even be controlled 
by a pref, I don't agree.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93453 ***