280951 - error message when sending from an address book list that contains entries with empty email addresses.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Paul Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If I send a message that contains an address book list in an address field, and
one or more of those members of the list contain a blank email, Thunderbird
reports this error message pop-up:

An error occured while sending mail.  The mail server responded: Bad address
syntax. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail
preferences and try again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an address book list.
2. Add member cards with email addresses
3. Add a member card without an email address.
4. Compose a new message.
5. Address message with list name.
6. Attempt to send message.


Actual Results:  
The error message listed above in details appears as a modal alert window, and
the message is not sent.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should check to ensure that all addresses are correct before sending
them out to the server, and either warn the user more precisely of where the
problem lies, or give the option to send to all valid addresses.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reproduced with TB 1.0, Win2K.

Comment 2

[Vincent (caméléon)]

I try it with TB3 beta1 and I can see that the bug is always here. Only difference: the step 3 is not directly possible. You need to:
3.1. Add another member cards to the list (with email addresses)
3.2. Then delete this email address (TB doesn't allow anymore to add member with no address to a list, which is good).

Expected Results:
Thunderbird should give the contact name that as no address in order to make it easy for the user to correct his list.