290181 - first name cleared, after sending mail to a recipient from address book where no display name is entered

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[zombie79]

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

If you send a new message to a recipient using the address book, then the first
name in this address book entry is cleared, if no display name is entered in the
specific entry.

Address book entry before message sent:
First: Hans
Last: Wurst
Display: <no entry>
Nickname: <no entry>

Address book entry after message sent:
First: <no entry>
Last: Wurst
Display: <no entry>
Nickname: <no entry>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open address book
2. select address entry
3. press <ctrl>+<m> or click "write" button or select "write" from context menu
4. send the message
5. view used address entry
Actual Results:  
The first name in this address book entrey is cleared out.

Expected Results:  
The first name sould not be touched.

I'm using a default installation of Thunderbird 1.0.2 (english version) with the
following extensions loaded:
Enigmail v0.91.0
AboutConfig v0.4

This bug also is in Mozilla v1.7.6. The (IMO) only way to ship around this bug
is entering a display name for every entry in the address book.

Comment 1

[Fin]

I can confirm this bug.
It actually already appeared in T-Bird 0.9, I hope it should be fixed, but I 
still find it in 1.0 (german), 1.0.2 (german) and 1.0.2 (english) versions 
running on Win98SE.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

I also see this bug with Mozilla 1.8b1, but if I choose 'Send Later' the first
name is still present until I really send the message with 'Send Unsent Messages'. 

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 5

[ari.meyer]

Hi,

I don't seem to have the ability to reopen the bug, but it should be.  It is
still present in 1.0.6.  (I'm on Windows XP.)

Thanks,
Ari

Comment 6

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I don't seem to have the ability to reopen the bug, but it should be.  It is
> still present in 1.0.6.  (I'm on Windows XP.)

This bug is also reproducible with SeaMonkey 1.0a and 1.1a/20051013.

Comment 7

[durben7]

I have this problem with Thunderbird v1.5.0.4. It doesn't happen all the time and I haven't been able to record specifically when it does or does not happen. If I can do that I'll add it to the thread

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This may be fixed in by bug 336412 in time for SeaMonkey 1.1.1 and Thunderbird 2.0 beta 2.

Would anyone be able to check this again?

Thanks.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM version 3.0a1pre (2007100604)