357955 - FF randomly omits addresses from address list when using address list alias

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Simon Schlauri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

I created a sub-address-list by clicking the "new list" button while an address book was highlighted. In the dialog I pasted a CR-separated list of e-mail addresses that I had copied from a .txt file with such a list of e-mail addresses. I also entered a name (alias) for that list.

Then I sent a mail message to that alias. Firefox randomly dropped about one fifth of the addresses out of that list and did not send the message to these people. The rest of the people got the message.

I consider this bug as severe because you do not notice that some messages are randomly not sent at first sight. The address book/alias function is rendered completely useless because it is not reliable that way.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new address list (sub-list for an existing address book)
2. copy a CR-separated list into the creation dialog
3. enter an alias for this list
4. create new message
5. enter the new alias to the address line
6. send this message

I did not try to reproduce this bug because I did not want to bother the address list recipients. But it is almost impossible this happened due to a mistake of mine.

Actual Results:  
Random addresses from the list are omitted. These people do not get the message. The addresses are also not present in the header of the message in the outbox, so these messages have not been filtered by spam filters or similar, either, but there must be a bug in the alias/address book function.

Expected Results:  
All addresses from the list should be used.

Send me an e-mail if you want the .txt source file I used or an exported address book file. I will not uploade these addresses here.

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to the last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.