59379 - Account Wizard doesn't provide default email address

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 48084

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Andrew Taylor]

When creating a new mail account with the account wizard, the email address
field is blank.  This is a regression; at one point it was filled in with the
value from nsUserInfo::GetEmailAddress in
mozilla/xpfe/appshell/src/nsUserInfoUnix.cpp.

To reproduce:
1. Start mozilla with a new profile
2. Select Mail from the Tasks menu
3. Select ISP or email provider in the account wizard

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

the last thing to change in there was the landing for #39895

can you paste your entry from /etc/passwd (or ypcat passwd) so I can try it out?

mine is:

seth:x:500:500:Seth Spitzer:/home/seth:/bin/tcsh

Comment 2

[Andrew Taylor]

On further investigation, it is failing in nsUserInfo::GetDomain, which in turn
causes nsUserInfo::GetEmailAddress to fail.  In particular, my uname.domainname
== "" and my uname.nodename doesn't have a dot in it, so the if at the end falls
through.

This is really a dup of 48084.  Sorry for the spam.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48084 ***

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Yep, it's a DUP, marking as VERIFIED.