77353 - Unable to Send page/Forward message after address picker is used

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[marina]

**** observed with 2001-04-22 build ****
Steps to repro:
- compose a message;
- click on Address icon;
- chose a recipient, OK dlgbox;
- click Send;
//note: send has no effect, message is sitting there untill you cancel send

Comment 1

[ji]

It onlt happens when subject and mail body is empty.

Comment 2

[marina]

actually it happens to me when i forward or send out message with the body and
header filled out but only after i use the address picker

Comment 3

[marina]

it narrows down to forwarding and sending page, changing summary

Comment 4

[ji]

Yes, when forwarding the msg, it doesn't send out if I don't change the subject 
or 
mail body at all. Once I set focus to subject or mail body, even w/o changing 
anything, I can send out. Same thing happens to a new mail compose, after using 
the address picker to fill out the To: field, if I don't do anything more to the 
window, I can't send out. But once I click on any field on the window, I can 
send out.

Comment 5

[marina]

yes, i see that, i can click on the mail body and send the mail out ....but it
is rather a workaround the bug.

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to varada. Seems to be a focus/command issue

Comment 7

[varada]

nominating for nsbeta1

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

Varada this sounds exactly like that bug where logging into a mail server
prevented you from clicking on the mail toolbar until something in the window
had focus.  See http://bugscape.netscape.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3993 (sorry
non-netscape people who can't see this)

Varada do you think this needs to be reassigned to xptoolkit for focus issues?

Comment 9

[varada]

this is something that we have seen before and saari had a fix for this then. It
is certainly only the focus that is playing havoc here. Please do reassign to
saari/toolkit

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

reassigning to saari

Comment 11

[saari (gone)]

So what is unique about the address picker that it kills focus memory?

Comment 12

[saari (gone)]

So I fixed focus memory in my tree, but this still doesn't work. It looks like 
the act of inserting an address kills focus in the parent message compose 
window. That isn't my problem, the focus memory issue is.

Comment 13

[saari (gone)]

Someone from mail want to explain to me what the address picker does 
to insert the address in the parent window? Something about that 
process messes up focus, or more to the point, removes it from the 
address field that previously had it.

Comment 14

[saari (gone)]

Okay, this appears to have gotten fixed by the recent focus changes. Yeay!

Comment 15

[Sheela Ravindran]

using builds:  2001062108 on win98, mac, linux. I still see that clicking on 
send button has no effect when address picker is used. The work around as 
mentioned earlier in the bug is that after clicking in the body it then works.  
Sorry reopening this bug because I still see this.

Comment 16

[saari (gone)]

Type a subject, type a body, press address book button, proceed. That works for
me. Were you trying to send a message without a subject and/or body?

Comment 17

[saari (gone)]

So why is this a blocker? Who sends messages regularly without a body?

Comment 18

[saari (gone)]

0.9.3 especially since I don't see how this affects the average use case

Comment 19

[marina]

This scenario happens when you compose the mail first and then use the address
picker. In that case after you used the address picker and clicked Send nothing
is happening and the user wouldn't know that he has to click somewhere again to
enable the Send operation. 

Comment 20

[marina]

those comments were intended for another similar bug, sorry about that. In this
case you don't have to compose mail ( so it's not the case of having no
body/header mail). This doesn't work in two particular cases : when you Send
page or forward the message ( presumably with the body)

Comment 21

[saari (gone)]

I just tried this again on Win2K and it worked fine. What platform is this not
working on?

Comment 22

[marina]

i am on Win2K as well and it is NOT working with 2001-07-24 build, using same
steps to repro: go to bugzilla page|file| Send page|; get a message composition
window ,click on the address picker; chose the recipient, Ok to dismiss address
picker; get back to compose window; click Send: nothing happens unless you click
somewhere on the widget ( using old profile)

Comment 23

[saari (gone)]

Hrm, odd. If I compose from Send Page, I see the bug. If I just have mail open
and wack the New Message button, it works fine. The key seems to be moving the
cursor out of the address list, to the subject field for example, before hitting
the address book button.

That implies that inital focus for the compose window isn't quite right. That
isn't too surprising, we've had trouble with that window before.

Comment 24

[Sheela Ravindran]

*** Bug 89161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 25

[saari (gone)]

->0.9.5

Comment 26

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** Bug 94277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 27

[Chase Tingley]

*** Bug 95134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 28

[Sheela Ravindran]

*** Bug 95015 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 29

[Sheela Ravindran]

*** Bug 103689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 30

[Mike Young]

*** Bug 100524 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 31

[saari (gone)]

Just tried again on win2k, and it looks like this might be fixed. A focus change
just went in that may have fixed a raft of bugs, so I have reason to believe it
is  really fixed. If you still see it with trunk, reopen with details.

Comment 32

[Sheela Ravindran]

2002-02-04-06 build on win98, mac os x, linux rh 6.2
Forwarding and send page using the address picker I was able to send.  Marking
this bug verified.  
Please reopen if you are not able to send on any other platforms if you use
address picker.