328221 - When you highlight all addresses and DRAG to the BCC field of the message it MIXES UP the name and email

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Andre Gensburger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Highlighting the addresslist and dragging it to a pre-selected BCC field, all addresses transfer HOWEVER the wrong name is associated with the email address even though it is correct in the address book.  This results in people getting their email with the wrong name addressed.   Example:  John Smith ([e-mail]) and Sally Parker ([e-mail]) will then show in the BCC that has been dragged as John SMith ([e-mail]) and Sally Parker ([e-mail]).

I tried it one at a time and it worked fine. YOU need a COPY TO BCC button as well.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select BCC in message field
2.Highlight ALL addresses using Ctr Shift for first and last - highlights all
3. Drag addresses over - it fills in multiple BCC slots.

Actual Results:  
I did above

Expected Results:  
Incorrect Names assigned to email addresses

Matched the name with the listed email address.


I had previously IMPORTED the addresses in from an LDIF format. They matched up correctly in the address book.

Nice program, though!

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Highlighting the addresslist and dragging it to a pre-selected BCC field, all
> addresses transfer HOWEVER the wrong name is associated with the email address
> even though it is correct in the address book.  This results in people getting
> their email with the wrong name addressed.   Example:  John Smith
> ([e-mail]) and Sally Parker ([e-mail]) will then show in the BCC
> that has been dragged as John SMith ([e-mail]) and Sally Parker
> ([e-mail]).

This WFM on Thunderbird version 1.6a1 (20060224). Which version of Thunderbird are you using? You should be using at least 1.5 or later.

I tried several ways of filling in the addresses from the lists with multiple selections etc, but could not reproduce your problem. Sending with bcc just marks it as "undisclosed receipients", sending with TO or CC works just fine.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

No response from reporter after request for more information, plus it WFM (see comment 1) -> Works for Me.