86105 - address autocomplete behaviour has changed, contains matching string

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 85340

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Leston Buell]

The behaviour of address autocomplete has changed. So hard to describe. Please
bear with me.

1. In the "To" field, type in part of an e-mail address which you know 
   will be a successful autocomplete. For example, i know that typing 
   "bulbul" will be found. This used to give me:

       Leston Buell <[e-mail]>

   This still correctly appears in the drop-down menu, but the line 
   in the "To:" field now gives me:

       bulbul >> Leston Buell <[e-mail]>

2. Hit "return", selecting the autocomplete version with the matching 
   string and ">>".

3. Now send the message. The matching string and the ">>" are both 
   included in the "To:" field. This can be confirmed by examining 
   the headers of the received e-mail. So, when i receive the message, 
   it says:

       To: "bulbul >> Leston Buell" <[e-mail]>

This behaviour is obviously incorrect.

Comment 1

[Leston Buell]

Sorry, forgot to include my build info. It's Linux 2001061508.

Comment 2

[David Einstein]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85340 ***

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified as dup