279637 - ennoying autocompletion of To field when not hitting '@'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278992

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[plop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)

When auto completion is on, if just hitting a part of the email, TB automaticly
compleets it with the computers domain, whether I want to hit something at once
in the body part, or switch to an other window, or try to come back inside the
field ... if that email is not in my address book yet.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. activate the completion from address book
1. copy an email in a web page, such as: "plop at home.net" ( what is not in my
address book)
2. past it as is in the to field
3. hit "left arrow" in order to come back and replace the "at" by @
4. ennoying "@mydomain.com" ( or whatever) appears after "home.net" ...
5. enjoy the to field: plop at [e-mail] ... which is not all what
you want.


Actual Results:  
TB wants any way to compleet the last hitted word and put an "@" in it at any
price. it takes ages to come back in the word, replace "at" with @, then come at
the end, and supress the whole stuff added by TB ("@mydomain.com")

Expected Results:  
when a "To" word is not in the address book, TM SHOULD NOT compleet it at all,
rather than putting a demain extention I dont know where it comes from.
( the added "@mydomain.com" may be in some configuration files of my computer ...)

This happens in many cases:
- I past an email from a web site
- I start hitting the to field, but have an idea, and need to hit at once
something in the body part, or subject
- I write the address from some where else, and need to switch for example to an
other mail in the main window ...

This problem does NOT occur when I tick off the 'autocompletion from address
book' in the Option menu.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278992 ***