Closed
Bug 94676
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
autocomplete does not work on succeeding email addresses on a semi-colon delimited list of recipients
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: rflazaro, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Keywords: polish)
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 BuildID: 2001080110 when i tried to semi-colon delimit a list of people i wanted to email, the email address auto complete did not work on the succeeding email address i typed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a new message 2. go to the To: line and type a know email addres; you will see the autocomplete working 3. go to the end of the email address on the To: line and type a semi-colon(a comma works as well) and type another known email address; you wil see that autocomplete will not work Actual Results: autocomplete does not work on succeeding email addresses on a semi-colon delimited list of recipients Expected Results: autocomplete should work on succeeding email addresses on a semi-colon delimited list of recipients
Comment 1•23 years ago
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markign NEW.
Comment 2•23 years ago
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reassigning to ducarroz. I don't think our intention was to make semi-colon work. Does comma work for you at least?
Assignee: sspitzer → ducarroz
I am using build 2001101103 on Win2K and comma does not work either =)
Comment 4•23 years ago
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autocomplete does not work for multiple entries on the same line. Maybe in the future...
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Comment 5•22 years ago
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"maybe in the future" ?? really ?? Just to simplify: the Mozilla Mail Client does not allow the user to type "joe, ralph" and hit enter. The user must type "joe@tellme.com, ralph@tellme.com" The ability to enter multiple email addresses separated by commas is a very basic feature that has been around in email programs since the days of Wordstar 2000 (including, fwiw, Communicator/Outlook/Eudora/Pegasus/Notes/etc.) This is the sort of basic feature we will need if Mozilla is to gain widespread acceptance among people who are used to things working the way they should work from a UI perspective. In other words, I don't think people like my mom will use Mozilla if it doesn't let her send a message to a few recipients separated by commas. This would strike me as a bad product management decision to place this thing out in the realm of "future," but maybe I misunderstood the goals for the 1.0 release.
I'd like to add that a paste of multiple lines of a line per address should work as well. e.g. lohphat@earthlink.net foo@foo.com test@foo.com should just flow into the UI w/o being autocompleted
Might I also suggest that down-arrow take you to the next line with "To:" active, so you can enter another address, switch it to CC: (hopefully with a shortcut), etc.? Tab takes you to the subject line, which given that the majority of e-mails are to one person seems the optimal choice.
Comment 8•21 years ago
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*** Bug 153632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9•21 years ago
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FWIW, the funtionality you're after is there is you use the enter key between addresses, eg 'bob <enter> shirly <enter>' will expand both bob and shirly. I agree though that a comma should work, and that pressing enter between addresses (pressing tab will not work) is non-obvious. A related problem is that if you hit backspace on a to: (or cc: or bcc:) line, it seems to turn off auto completion. I guess that was intentional to stop it autocompleting something incorrectly. I would suggest a drop down box much like the URL auto completetion (or the start/run box in windows) for when there are multiple matches, and that moz breaks the line as if the user had pressed Enter when a paste operation puts in a comma, or when auto completion matches an email address.
Comment 10•21 years ago
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This bug is virtually the same as bug 94540, except that one is talking about comma-delimited addresses and goes into more detail. (Commas, incidentally, are legal; semicolons are nonstandard.) Since both bugs are "assigned" I'll let the asignees sort out which is a dupe, if either.
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Updated•16 years ago
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Assignee: ducarroz → mail
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: nbaca
Target Milestone: Future → ---
Comment 11•16 years ago
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Since semi-colon is not valid as address separator I don't think this is really a bug. ->INVALID
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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