713407 - Account provisioner does not find any possible email addresses unless the search text contains a space

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Matt]

The account provisioner does not locate any possible email addresses unless the search string contains a space, although the dialog text indicates "Just fill in your first and last name, or any other words you’d like, in the fields above to get started"

madmat  returns a sorry

mad mat returns a variety of options

Expected result:
Both search string should return the same or very similar results.

Have set the severity of this to Blocker, as this is I think a show stopper for the feature and needs correction whilst still in beta.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Sev: Major. Please see <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#importance>
I agree that the account provisioning feature is severely impaired by this bug.

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Ack, this is a pretty major oversight.  Sorry it slipped through - on it.

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Hm - ok, so this doesn't appear to be on the client-side.  The suggestFromName service being hosted by Mozilla doesn't appear to like it if there's no last name provided.

Example:

https://broker-live.mozillamessaging.com/provider/suggest?first_name=Mike&last_name=&providers=aol,hover,yandex

Sancus - is it safe to assume that when we switch to the real suggestion service, it'll handle the case where there is no last name?

-Mike

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This feature has been postponed until TB 11, so we don't need this yet, but we can test it when we're ready.

Comment 5

[Andrei [:sancus]]

This should be fixed now. The issue was that empty last_name or first_name arguments were being interpreted as not submitted parameters at all.