288241 - E-mail address duplicated when composing message with nicknames

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Robert Madison]

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: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

If I am sending a message to someone using a nickname, and accidentally hit
extra punctuation, then the recipient's name will appear twice in the "to"
fields (one on each of two lines).  This is pretty consistent, though through
trying different things, I haven't been able to reproduce it 100% of the time. 
I'd say 50% or more, though, it happens.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Let's say I have someone in my address book with the initials ABC, so I decide
to give him the nickname "abc" to make it easier to compose a message to him. 
Let's also say there's someone nicknamed "def," and I want to send both of them
a message.

1.  Open new message window
2.  Type "abc,," (with both commas) in the "To" field.
3.  Delete (i.e. with backspace) the two commas, then type another comma, and
then type def
4.  Press "Tab" to jump to the subject field

Actual Results:  
When I do this (often caused by me typing too fast, and I screw up the
punctuation between the two e-mail recipients, so I delete the bad punctuation
and try again), I'll get the first recipient's address listed twice.  I.e.

To:  [e-mail]
To:  [e-mail]
To:  [e-mail]

Expected Results:  
What should happen is that the first recipient only has his/her e-mail address
listed once.  I.e.

To: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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