284791 - multiple email addresses in calendar event not saved when mozilla suite closed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[Katherine Pagoaga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

When I have a repeating event and I send an email reminder to more than one
email address, the multiple comma-separated addresses are saved only until
mozilla suite is closed.  Upon reopening the suite and checking the email
addresses, only the first one remains. Multiple space-separated email addresses,
give a mail error shown below.  An event reminder can be sent to a comma
separated list if the suite is not exited before the event reminder goes off.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Steps:
1. Start mozilla suite
2. Click on Window --> Calendar
3. In calendar month view, double-click on any day, today or in the future.
4. Give the event a title, put check mark in the boxex "Alarm" and "Email Alarm
   To:" 
5. Enter two email addresses in the list separated by commas such as
   [e-mail],[e-mail]
6. Click recurrence tab, set the repeat to repeat every year for forever
7. Click OK
Actual Results:  
Now, if you select the event again, the two addresses will be there.  If you
close the calendar, the two addresses will still be there when you bring up the
calendar and check the event.

However, if you exit the mozilla suite completely, then start it up again.  The
calendar event will contain only the first email address.

I tried the same two addresses but separated them with a comma then space.  When
I exited the suite and brought it back up, the second address was gone.

I tried the same two addresses and separated them with a single space.  When I
exited the suite and brought it back up, the second address was there.  However,
when I checked the event email, I got the following error message:

The original message was received at Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:59:01 -0700 (MST)
from cio-vn1.bw.nist.gov [132.163.129.140]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<"\"\"\"\"pagoaga\"@[e-mail]">
    (reason: 501 5.5.4 Syntax error in parameters)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to localhost:
>>> RCPT To:<""""pagoaga"@[e-mail]>
<<< 501 5.5.4 Syntax error in parameters
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

Reporting-MTA: dns; franklin.boulder.nist.gov
Received-From-MTA: DNS; cio-vn1.bw.nist.gov
Arrival-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:59:01 -0700 (MST)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; """"pagoaga"@[e-mail]
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.4
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 5.5.4 Syntax error in parameters
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:59:02 -0700 (MST)


Expected Results:  
I believe that the software should save the list of comma separated email
addresses to which to send the alarm.  There may need to be a maximum, but I
think  5 or under is certainly reasonable.  After that, a list is less time
consuming and easier to manage.

The dtcm calendar for Sun solaris and the corporate time calendar from oracle
both have this function.

The workaround is to make any multiple address set into a list.  However, this
gives you a very large number of two-to-five person lists.

Comment 1

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

New Sunbird versions doesn't have the ability to email alarms.

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