596197 - group or list name not recognized as a valid email address email can't be sent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 542947

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Roberta Perlmutter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.1.3

sending mail to : group name receives error - group name is not a valid e-mail address because it is not of the form user@host.  You must correct it before sending the email.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a group with multiple email address
2. attempt to send an email to the "group name"
3. send
Actual Results:  
Error message returns : group name is not a valid e-mail address because it is not of the form user@host.  You must correct it before sending the email.

Mail not sent

Expected Results:  
All members of the group are expanded into the To: list and the mail is sent

All members of the group are expanded into the To: list and the mail is sent

1.  The sending of all email with attachments on revision 3.x is incredibly slow
2.  I have just downloaded 2.x.  Will stay with that until I know 3.x has been out for at least 6 months.