Re: [Evolution] The SMTP Problem...

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:16, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 17:30, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > it seems that it does. I just added "evolution users"
> > <evolution ximian com> to my contacts database and then did a Reply-All
> > to the message and then trimmed out the To: address (Not Zed) and then
> > copied the "evolution users" string that represented the
> > evolution ximian com address in the Cc: field and pasted it into the To:
> > field and then deleted the Cc: field and hit Send, and you are right -
> > the addressbook is not properly resolving the "evolution users" string
> > into evolution ximian com and so feeds the mailer an empty address
> > string for the To: field.
>
> Yeah, actually, this is a regression from 1.0.x.  In 1.0.x a string on
> the To or Cc list would always get the underline magic (and hence, an
> email address) automatically if it would fully match an entry in the
> addressbook.  This made cut & paste between the fields work (well, at
> least for entries in the addressbook), and also made it harder for the
> user to shoot him/herself in the foot by undoing the underlined state
> accidentally (eg. in 1.2.1 if you remove the comma between two addresses
> the underline disappears and if you add it again it doesn't come back
> automatically -- and at that point it's not obvious to the user that
> this means that the message won't be sent to that destination).
>
> The following gives some insight on the history of the bug (yeah, it's a
> really old one...):
>
>       http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7728
>
> Chris, since this has been a fairly common source of complaint and is a
> pretty serious regression from 1.0.x, can we do something about it in
> 1.2.2?  I have set the target milestone in Bugzilla tentatively.

I would SO love to see this fixed.  It drives me crazy.

Eric

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