Bug 346390 - Cannot add list of contacts to BCC in mail
Summary: Cannot add list of contacts to BCC in mail
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.1.3
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2015-04-20 11:25 UTC by Phil thane
Modified: 2022-11-29 05:17 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Kmail Bug (75.47 KB, image/jpeg)
2015-04-21 07:21 UTC, Phil thane
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attachment-21527-0.html (3.17 KB, text/html)
2015-04-21 11:12 UTC, Phil thane
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attachment-25005-0.html (2.89 KB, text/html)
2015-04-21 12:38 UTC, Phil thane
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Description Phil thane 2015-04-20 11:25:34 UTC
When sending a message without disclosing other recipients it is useful to set the To field as yourself, then BCC the list.

Click on Select in next field and browse to find a group. Select group and 'Add as BCC' (or To or CC). The group name is inserted in the field, but you cannot send the message. Open it again from the Outbox (same if you save a draft and open that). The BCC (To or CC) field now has the address in the form groupname@computername which is obviously invalid.

Alternatively, you can go straight to Contacts, find the group right-click and choose Send an Email. This puts all the contacts in separate To fields. To change every one in a long list to BCC manually is not optimal.

Resembles https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333426  except I find it not fixed in a later version.
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2015-04-21 05:36:45 UTC
so never group is extented ?
It's not extended when you put as To or CC or BCC ?
Comment 2 Phil thane 2015-04-21 07:21:57 UTC
Created attachment 92137 [details]
Kmail Bug
Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2015-04-21 10:54:51 UTC
The question is :
do you have this bug when you add to CC/TO/BCC ?
or it just doesn't work for BCC ?
Comment 4 Phil thane 2015-04-21 11:12:02 UTC
Created attachment 92141 [details]
attachment-21527-0.html

It's the same for all. But in practice BCC and CC are the most annoying because you can 
use a different method for To.
Comment 5 Laurent Montel 2015-04-21 12:26:51 UTC
Ok so it's a general problem for you.
Baloo works for you ?
Comment 6 Phil thane 2015-04-21 12:38:26 UTC
Created attachment 92142 [details]
attachment-25005-0.html

What is Baloo?
Comment 7 Phil thane 2015-04-30 15:12:34 UTC
Any news on this?

On 21/04/15 13:26, Laurent Montel wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346390
>
> --- Comment #5 from Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> ---
> Ok so it's a general problem for you.
> Baloo works for you ?
>
Comment 8 Laurent Montel 2015-04-30 16:59:30 UTC
Here it works fine so for the moment no idea.
Comment 9 Phil thane 2015-04-30 19:36:33 UTC
Well if you tell me step by step how to set up a group mailing list then 
send a message inserting that list in the BCC field I'll follow exactly 
and send you screenshots of each stage.

Meanwhile I have another nightmare, I did distro upgrade Kubuntu 14.10 
to 15.04 on one of my machines and Kontact wouldn't connect to Akonadi. 
After a couple of attempts Plasma crashed and cannot be restarted. I'm 
using LXDE on that machine with Thunderbird, but daren't upgrade the 
other. I'll file that bug with Kubuntu...


--
Phil

On 30/04/15 17:59, Laurent Montel wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346390
>
> --- Comment #8 from Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> ---
> Here it works fine so for the moment no idea.
>
Comment 10 Phil thane 2015-05-12 18:53:06 UTC
Just installed Kubuntu 15.04 using Plasma on a different machine. Fresh install, not upgrade. KDE 4.14.6 and I have exactly the same issue.

RECAP:

I have a mailing list called LCC&T. 
I open a new message and start typing 'lcc...' the autocomplete correctly identifies the group name.
I click and LCC&T is inserted in the To (or CC or BCC) field.
Save as draft and then reopen it.
To field now displays LCC&T@[name of computer]
Needless to say it won't send.
ALTERNATIVELY
I open Address book and search for the group
Right click and choose 'Send an Email'
The To: field is correctly populated.
However it is bad practice to use To: for mailing lists some contacts wish to remain hidden from others, there is no easy way to use this technique to put the list in BCC, I have to edit each name in the email header.

Can't believe no-one else has found this.
Comment 11 marian.trenkwalder 2016-05-22 20:33:27 UTC
I can confirm this buggy behaviour on KMail Version 5.1.3.
Comment 12 Phil thane 2016-05-23 10:28:57 UTC
Since posting this bug I have switched to Mint 17.3 (KDE version) which uses KMail 4.14.2. Same problem. Would seem to be a long-standing issue.
Comment 13 Justin Zobel 2022-10-30 00:37:26 UTC
Thank you for reporting this bug in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 14 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-14 05:14:43 UTC
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Comment 15 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-29 05:17:56 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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