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)

x86
Windows NT
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: rflazaro, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: polish)

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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
QA Contact: esther → fenella
QA Contact: fenella → nbaca
markign NEW.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: polish, ui
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 =)
autocomplete does not work for multiple entries on the same line. Maybe in the
future...
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
"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.
*** Bug 153632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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. 
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.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: ducarroz → mail
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: nbaca
Target Milestone: Future → ---
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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