551432 - Compose: make only the first recipient To: and subsequent CC:

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Arie Skliarouk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100214 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.8
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When composing an email, Thunderbird makes everyone a "To:", rather than the first one being a To and everyone else a Cc.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start composing new email
2. Write name of the first recipient and press ENTER
3. Observe the second recipient to be marked as "To:" instead of "Cc:"



This is the behavior of Outlook and kmail. If you think the behavior is not worthy for general public, make an configuration knob to force it.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

was WONTFIXéd in bug 310527

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

This would only make sense if multiple comma-separated addresses entered into a single line would reliably auto-completed, which is currently not the case in Thunderbird 3.x due to bug 528503.

Comment 3

[Brian H.]

I would REALLY like this feature, and would come into play 50 times a day for me. Please?  : )

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

In line with comment 1 and comment 2, recommending wontfix.

In the current traditional single-address per line design, worse with bug 392932 and bug 528503, this doesn't make sense.
Implementing this RFE is much more likely to cause inconvenience to a larger group of users who need multiple to-recipients or just multiple of any same sort of recipient.
And if we give up the current design in favor of comma-separated lists, this will no longer be relevant.

Easy workaround:
- type to-address, press Enter
- change second recipient line to CC
- type cc-address, press Enter
-> any subsequent entries will be CC

So basically, it's just one extra click to get the behaviour you want.

Comment 5

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard