287874 - Contacts with no Email address are Not Greyed Out in compose

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Rishi Chopra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Address Book contacts without a valid email address should be greyed out in the
Message Compose interface.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Contact without an email address are still displayed in the compose window.

Expected Results:  
Contacts without an email address should be greyed out.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Rishi Chopra]

Should be added...

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Should be wontfix, because now cannot add contacts that haven't email address... but I ask to drivers.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Contacts don't need to have an e-mail.

Comment 5

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

the request makes sense to me, though I would say that if there is a contact with out an email address we shouldn't even list it since it can't be used.  However someone will have to put up the work to make this happen since TB3 is around the corner and this won't get priority to be done.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM?
shows as red for me - which I assume is the new grey

Comment 7

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

I'm guessing this is for the contacts pane that you can open with F9, in which case it's not fixed.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The used to be included in autocomplete, but not anymore after bug 1045753. 
I don't think they should be listed but disabled. So we should decide if we simply exclude them, or pop up a dialog.

 No e-mail found for contact. 
   [ok] [edit contact]

Comment 9

[rsx11m]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #6)
> WFM?
> shows as red for me - which I assume is the new grey

There is also bug 1042561 on showing red where it isn't supposed to be shown, but I agree that this seems to be a different issue related to opening the contacts sidebar and trying to add recipients from there rather than by autocomplete.

(In reply to [:Aureliano Buendía] from comment #3)
> Should be wontfix, because now cannot add contacts that haven't email address...

Verifying with TB 36.0a1 on Linux, I can add a contact without an e-mail address, it shows up in the contacts sidebar, and I can select it where just the display name shows up (no <> part).