542261 - Recipient column wrongly shows Sender if recipient not specified in template/draft messages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 187798

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Dmitry G. Kozhinov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: 

If you create a template message and not specify a recipient (the "To:" field), *your* name is shown in Recipient column in Templates folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new message, and do not fill the "To:" field;
2. Save it as Template;
3. Click on Templates folder to see your saved template message.
Actual Results:  
*Your* (sender) name is shown in Recipient column.

Expected Results:  
Recipient column should be empty.
Maybe Sender column should be displayed instead.

Comment 1

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

Confirmed on Windows Vista (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1 ID:20100111101938).

(In reply to comment #0)
> Expected Results:
> Recipient column should be empty.
> Maybe Sender column should be displayed instead.
Sender column can be shown, if you like (and Thunderbird will remember that preference for later), but I don't think the sender column should be shown by default, especially not in preference to Recipient.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Same bad behaviour for saved draft messages.

Core bug 187798, dating back to 2003, that's 7 years ago.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

V.Duplicate