542455 - Auto BCC to multiple addresses separated by ';' creates a malformed BCC header.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258653

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Oscar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; es-AR; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

Hello,

   When you create an Acccount and set the auto BCC feature with multiple addresses separated by a semicolon ';' the compose window show a malformed header adding a " (double quote) character before the @ symbol to the first email adddress.

  NOTE: If you separate the addresses with ',' (comma) the feature works fine; that is, adding a new BCC field for each address.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In account manager, set you account to send automatic BCC copies to 2 or more email accounts, separating each address with a ';' semicolon.
2. Compose a new email message.
3. Look at the field of BCC's addresess.
Actual Results:  
While composing a new message, you will see that the first field for BCC's is malformed. What you get is something like :

BCC: user1"@domain.com; [e-mail]

Note the " (double quote) before de @ symbol.

If you set more than two addresses you will see something like:

BCC: user1"@domain.com; [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]

If you set in account manager the addresses with mixed semicolons or commas like:

[e-mail]; [e-mail], [e-mail]; [e-mail]

You get:

BCC: user1"@domain.com; [e-mail]
BCC: user3"@otherdomain.com; [e-mail]

Another example:

[e-mail]; [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

BCC: user1"@domain.com; [e-mail]
BCC: [e-mail]
BCC: [e-mail]

Expected Results:  
A single field for each BCC address or a single field for all addresses.

A workaround is adding your BCC addresses separated by commas instead of semicolons. The use of semicolon is as common as using a comma.

Comment 1

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

I can't tell if this is a bug in the Account Manager, or in the Message Compose Window. For that matter, it might even be in MailNews as a whole, not just TB. Whichever, I was able to confirm easily on 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).