277365 - illegal malformed recipient field returns confusing smtp error to user (5.1.1)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

A "To:" or "CC:" field that is missing the final ">" character, for example:

Joe Shmoe <[e-mail]

will return a confusing error when the user tries to send the message.  In this
example, the error would be:

An error occurred while sending mail.  The mail server responded: 5.1.1 unkown
or illegal user: "JoeShmoe".  Please verify that your email address is correct
in your Mail preferences and try again.

It appears that perhaps there should be some sanity checking on the recipient
field before sending the email to the smtp server.  A novice user might not
understand that the problem is actually a deleted character in the "To:" field.

This error commonly occurs to me in the following situation:  If I'm deleting a
recipient by holding down the "Backspace" key, when one recipient is fully
deleted, the backspacing will continue on to the recipient address in the
previous line of the compose window.  It is not difficult to accidentally delete
the last character, i.e. the ">".

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.