308493 - AutoComplete Needs Refinement & Customization

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Sam Elowitch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When filling in e-mail addresses automatically, Thunderbird does some odd things
like offer e-mail addresses that are no longer in the Address Book (or never
were). There also seems to be no way to specify a default e-mail address for a
specific Display Name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Begin typing an address in the To, CC, or BCC field(s).
2. Notice that the list of autocomplete possibilties that pops up is not what
you would like it to be.


Expected Results:  
I would prefer that there be an option to a) offer only current Address Book
entries during AutoComplete; b) offer only the default e-mail address for the
display name being typed; c) ability to edit the cache of autocomplete address
manually.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Have you checked to make sure that the names you thought were purged aren't in, 
for instance, the Collected Addresses?  And you're not configured to use an LDAP 
server?  I've never seen any autocompletion for an address that wasn't somewhere 
in the address book.


As for a "default email address": is bug 116006 what you're describing?

Comment 2

[dylang]

Probably related (if not, let me know, I'll file a separate bug).

I'm trying to send an email to someoone who has attempted to despam their email by corrupting the link.  I paste in the raw text into the address bar:
mailto:trueg(at)k3b.org
It then appends @somesite.com and highlights it.  I press backspace to remove this, because this is NOT what I want.
The moment I then press the arrow key to head to the (at) and remove it, it reappends @somesite.com.

!#%%

I manually clear it.  This time, I hit home, and procede to delete mailto:.  The moment I finish clearing it, and press the right arrow to head to that (at), the text field resets from:
trueg(at)k3b.org 
to:
mailto:trueg(at)[e-mail]

At this point, I'm questioning whether the person who wrote this realizes how angry this is making me.

A quick whip through the edit -> preferences shows a nice option to choose where it autocompletes from, but not to turn off autocomplete, nor a description why using arrow keys will cause the text field to reset to the (stupid, un-useful) content I am trying to clean up.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I paste in the raw text into the address bar:
>   mailto:trueg(at)k3b.org
> It then appends @somesite.com and highlights it.  I press backspace to remove
> this, because this is NOT what I want.
> The moment I then press the arrow key to head to the (at) and remove it, it
> reappends @somesite.com.
> 
> I manually clear it.  This time, I hit home, and procede to delete mailto:. 
> The moment I finish clearing it, and press the right arrow to head to that
> (at), the text field resets from:
> trueg(at)k3b.org 
> to:
> mailto:trueg(at)[e-mail]
> [...]
> A quick whip through the edit -> preferences shows a nice option to choose
> where it autocompletes from, but not to turn off autocomplete

This is bug 131692, duped to bug 93453 because the fix for that bug provides 
the option to turn off completion-with-domain entirely, on a per-identity 
basis.
 
This option is recent, and there is no UI for setting the preference.  Also, it's slightly broken in TB 1.5; see bug 326280.

Without turning off completion-to-domain, the quick workaround to your particular problem is: after pasting, *first* select the "(at)" and type "@"; then you can complete your other edits without further bogus autocompletion.  Less than ideal, true.


Sam Elowitch: the questions from comment 1 are still open.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter  => Invalid
Sam Elowitch, feel free to reopen, but provide a response to comment 1.