Bug 278579

Summary: Sending mails to mailling lists is impossible!
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Fabian Schwarz <FaSchwarz>
Component: composerAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: christopher.m.braeuer, montel
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.1.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Fabian Schwarz 2011-07-26 20:33:58 UTC 
Version:           2.1.1 (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

If I try to send an e-mail to a mailing list (which is available with all containing recipients in the addressbook) kmail always tries to send it to <listname>@<local-hostname> instead of replacing the mailing-list-name with the addresses of the recipients.

I've also had this problem in recent versions of kmail and I can't believe that it's still there!!
In my oppinion, sending mails to mailing lists is one of the basic and expected funcionalities of an e-mail client. So this bug should be fixed as soon as possible!!!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- create a new Group in the addressbook (or start to write a new mail, select all recipients and click on "save list")
- open the composer to write a new mail
- select the created mailing list as the recipient in the "To"-field
- send it (this will fail)

Actual Results:  
Recipient is <listname>@<local-hostname>

Expected Results:  
The addresses of all recipients from the mailing list
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2011-07-27 07:25:02 UTC 
Can't reproduce it with master.
Could you update it ?
Regards
Comment 2 Fabian Schwarz 2011-07-27 09:43:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Can't reproduce it with master.
> Could you update it ?
> Regards

Strange thing: It seems that if it works now. :) But I've tried it many times before without success!

But there's a small problem if I start to write an e-mail to a mailing list, save it as a draft and reopen it for editing again:
If the contact name of a recipient from the list contains a comma in the name (e.g. "<lastname>, <firstname>") there is always a "To"-field containing only the lastname of the contact.

So the composer starts a new line (in this case a new "To"-field) when a "," appears in the contact's name.
Comment 3 Fabian Schwarz 2011-07-27 09:53:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Can't reproduce it with master.
> > Could you update it ?
> > Regards
> 
> Strange thing: It seems that if it works now. :) But I've tried it many times
> before without success!
> 
> But there's a small problem if I start to write an e-mail to a mailing list,
> save it as a draft and reopen it for editing again:
> If the contact name of a recipient from the list contains a comma in the name
> (e.g. "<lastname>, <firstname>") there is always a "To"-field containing only
> the lastname of the contact.
> 
> So the composer starts a new line (in this case a new "To"-field) when a ","
> appears in the contact's name.

But this only happend, because the contacts were taken from my old addressbook where I saved them as "<name>, <firstname>". I deleted that addressbook-folder and now everything works fine. 

Thanks!
Comment 4 Christopher Bräuer 2011-10-26 19:50:57 UTC 
I can confirm the behavior from Fabian. The same here.
I also imported my abook from the old version to the new version.
But in my opinion, it cannot be, that I have to delete the abook and regenerate it, so that it works. What is so difficult with that?

Kind regards!