424064 - trailing colon ':' should not be included when autolinking plain text e-mail addresses

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278341

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Adam Nielsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071210 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.9 (20071210)

If you have a plaintext e-mail with text such as this, generated by many mailing lists:

  Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a
  message to [e-mail]:

The e-mail address is highlighted, so you can click on it.  But it also includes the colon as part of the e-mail address, when it's not.  This means the e-mail bounces unless you remember to remove the trailing colon.

I don't know whether you can specify port addresses with e-mail domains, but either way a colon with no port address shouldn't be part of the e-mail address.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type in an e-mail address with a trailing colon in an e-mail
2. Send it to yourself
3. Open the e-mail and click on the address - you'll see Thunderbird tries to send it to the address with the trailing colon
Actual Results:  
Trailing colon is treated as part of the e-mail address

Expected Results:  
Trailing colon should not be treated as part of the address (in the same manner as a trailing full-stop, for example.)

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming.

Comment 2

[:aceman]

This is still a problem in TB8.
However, it does not happen in my dev build of TB11, where bug 278341 is fixed.

I assume it is a duplicate of it. Please reopen if it does not get fixed by the patch there.