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nautilus-sendto package

Comma from "Lastname, Firstname" in Evolution addressbook leads to failure to send mail (address separation)

Bug #210917 reported by Bernhard Gehl on 2008-04-02

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
nautilus-sendto	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #536342
evolution (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned
Hardy	Invalid	Low	Unassigned
nautilus-sendto (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned
Hardy	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus-sendto

My Evolution addressbook has its contents sorted in the "Lastname, Firstname"-scheme. When I select contacts from the addressbook as recipients for mail, Evolution simply writes a comma-separated list of "Firstname Lastname". So far everything is fine. However, when I try to send a file via nautilus-sendto, the intended recipient's name (of course even if it is just one person) appears as "Lastname, Firstname" in the "to" field. If not corrected manually, this leads to Evolution considering "Lastname" and "Firstname" separate addresses - which results in a failure to send the mail.

TESTCASE:
* right click on a file in nautilus
* select the sendto option
* select evolution in the nautilus-sendto combo
* start typing a name which is in your evolution addressbook and use the "One, Two <email>" format
* click on send

using the buggy version the "to:" contains "One, Two <email>", using the correct version that's "One Two <email>"

See original description

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lp:ubuntu/hardy-updates/nautilus-sendto

Bernhard Gehl (bernhard-gehl) on 2008-04-02

description:

updated

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Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze) wrote on 2008-04-30:

This is still an issue in hardy release. Perhaps the name should have quotes added around it. At the moment evolution treats the comma as a separator between email addresses and so will try to send two emails: one to 'Lastname' and one to 'Firstname <email@address>'.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-05-31:

doesn't seem to be an evolution issue, could you describe easy steps to trigger the bug?

Changed in evolution:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Invalid

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Bernhard Gehl (bernhard-gehl) wrote on 2008-06-01:

To trigger this bug on my hardy system, I simply have to do the following:
- in nautilusselect a file I want to send by mail
- right-click and select "send-to"
- choose "evolution mail" in the dropdown menu
- enter a few letters in the address field and select an entry from the list like "Gehl, Bernhard <email address hidden>"
- hit the "send" button in the message dialogue

The message is put in "outgoing" in Evolution but will not be sent, since the recipients field contains "Gehl, Bernhard <email address hidden>" and Evo tries to send the message to "Gehl" which it obviously can't.

In my opinion, this is also not an evolution problem but a bug in nautilus-sendto.

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Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze) wrote on 2008-06-01:

Agreed, this does seem to be a bug in nautilus-sendto - If I run:

evolution 'mailto:"Gehl, Bernhard" <email address hidden>'

evolution composer opens with the correct name in the 'to' field. If I select a file, hit send to, select evolution, start selecting an address from my address book, and then click send - it fills the field in wrong..

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-06-02:

it should be send upstream by someone experiencing the issue, for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving as incomplete until that, thanks.

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze) wrote on 2008-06-02:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536342

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Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze) wrote on 2008-06-02:

According to upstream, this is fixed in svn... are we able to get a patched sendto?

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-06-03

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
status:	Incomplete → Fix Committed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-06-03

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-06-16:

the new version has been uploaded to intrepid now

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Michael Gauthier (mike-silverorange) wrote on 2008-07-25:

Can we have this fix backported to Hardy?

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Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze) wrote on 2008-07-27:

#10

Can we *please* get this backported? I've been checking bugs in ubuntu 8.04 against fedora 9 and this one (unfortunately this is typical) is fixed in fedora.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-07-28:

#11

what about trying to be constructive and work on the backport rather than adding useless comments about what is is typical or not? there is just a small team really overworked to work on those stable updates and such comments don't make me want to work for such users

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Michael Gauthier (mike-silverorange) wrote on 2008-07-28:

#12

Sebastien,

I don't mean to be discouraging. Can you outline the steps required to get the package source and create a patch?

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-07-30

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-07-31

Changed in evolution:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Invalid
description:	updated

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-07-31:

#13

debdiff for the stable update Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain)

I've uploaded the change now

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-08-01:

#14

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Michael Gauthier (mike-silverorange) wrote on 2008-08-02:

#15

I can verify the proposed package fixes the problem.

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Åskar (olskar) wrote on 2008-08-02:

#16

I can also verify

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-08-06:

#17

Copied to hardy-updates.

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-08-06:

#18

Sorry, copying failed, hppa still didn't build it.

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
status:	Fix Released → Fix Committed

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-08-07:

#19

Copied to hardy-updates.

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in nautilus-sendto:
importance:	Unknown → Medium

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Namasteji (namasteji) wrote on 2010-10-27:

#20

I had the similar problem. I just went to Edit -> Preferences -> Contacts and then removed the tick mark from the 'Always Show the Address of autocompleted contact'. It seems that the problem has been solved for now.
Please see if it works.
Namasteji.