Evolution mail address autofill feature does not work correctly

Bug #611422 reported by LSL
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Confirmed
Medium
evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

What works is when I type in the partial name of a contact stored in evolution, and let the client autofill the best match, and then hit enter to use whatever selected address (either the first, or by using another of multiple choices). What does not work is when that same contact is used by typing in the email address instead of the name. An example is when sending an email to my wife's work I can just type in the first few letters of her name, hit enter, and it's good, but when I type in the first part of her work email, and let the client fill in the rest and hit enter this happens:

C, ammie Lastname <email address hidden> --No matter how much of the email address I type in it will place the cursor in the same position, which for me is right before the first a in the first name

Interestingly enough though in a new message window it will only do this the first time. After having it do this once if you select all and re type in the same few first letters to let the autofill happen and hit enter it will enter in the address in the proper format, and even place the type cursor at the end of the address.

This will obviously make the message not get sent correctly, and is a totally easy thing to fix yourself every time you put in the address, but I figured I would file a bug on it even though it doesn't really cause any sort of major functionality issues lol.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 29 11:35:26 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

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LSL (spesialstyrker) wrote :
LSL (spesialstyrker)
description: updated
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

This looks like one of the cases listed at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347983 ; thanks for the report Michael.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Revision history for this message
Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de) wrote :

Bug from 2010. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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