376444 - Account Manager's "your name" doesn't get inserted into Reply-to feild

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77972

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Jon Stewart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.10 (20070306) compiled for Ubuntu 6.10

Names put into the "Your Name" feild of the Account Manager do not get inserted into the Reply-to field of a composed email. When users reply the name is absent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.In the Account Manager create an account. 
2.In the main dialog of the account type a name in the "Your Name" field enter an address in the "Reply-to" field. 
3.Save the account
4.Start composing an email. 
Actual Results:  
In a composed email the address appears in the Reply-to field but "your name" does not.

Expected Results:  
Reply-to field should behave just like the From field with both "your name" and then your address in angle brackets. This is the expected result *if* you want TB on Linux to behave like the TB Windows client.

OR (like Evolution) I would expect to be able to insert unicode into the "Email Address" and "Reply-to" fields of the Address Manager. If for instance I wanted to send with one address but have the receiver reply to a different address and name.

On Linux, Evolution behaves just like TB (does not insert "your name" in the reply-to field. HOWEVER, Evolution *does* allow unicode characters in the Account Manager's Reply-to field. TB seems to strip any unicode that you insert into either the "Email Address" field or the "Reply-to" fields and it causes the addresses in a compose window to get truncated sometimes. In Evolution I can work around this problem by doing this:

Your name: Jon Stewart (王平）
Email Address: [e-mail]
Reply-to: Jon Stewart (王平）<[e-mail]>

Attempting a workaround like this in TB causes a munged Reply-to address in the compose window.

Ideally, both worlds would be nice. If I just enter an address "[e-mail]" into the reply-to field then TB should insert the "your name" in front. However, if I insert a name in the reply-to like "name <[e-mail]>" then "your name" field will be ignored. That would be cool and something I wish Evolution would do.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think not filling in names of reply-to addresses is as designed.

I was able to send a mail to myself, using that name, but without the parenthesis. With ( and ) in place i got a msg about not valid address.
But then I added them again and now it worked. Is the end parenthesis character really something else there?

Tested on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070404 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0pre ID:2007040403

Comment 2

[Jon Stewart]

In parenthesis is my Chinese name; two unicode characters. I've tried removing the parenthesis and just entering my Chinese name and it still happens. So I don't think that the parenthesis causes the bug I'm referring to.

The tricky part of this bug (in my eyes) is that it all works just dandy if you do it in the compose window. But it chokes for me every time if I try to put it into the Account Manager.

If not filling in the name is "as designed" I'm fine with that (although I think it's odd that Windows TB behaves differently than Linux TB). However, in that case, and the reason I included comparisons to Evolution, I would like the ability to enter a name directly into my account's Reply-to field itself so that I don't have to hand enter my name every time in the compose window's reply-to field. This bug is preventing that.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Found a dupe. There is also bug 208577.