144598 - Can't resolve multiple addresses on one 'to:' line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94540

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Kevin Butler]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

When sending a mail, it is useful to be able to type something like the
following for addresses:

alias1, alias2<CR>

And have it resolve to the email addresses of the two aliases.

Mozilla mail doesn't allow this, resolving: alias1, [e-mail]
instead.

This would be acceptable if:

alias1<CR>
alias2<CR>

Worked well, but because of the delay resolving alias1, unless you pause
alias1<CR><PAUSE>... you end up with:

[e-mail]


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose some easy-to-type address aliases you use a lot, or create a couple of
easy-to-type aliases.
2. Ctrl-M (compose new mail)
2. alias1, alias2<CR>
3. Note that it has resolve to: alias1, [e-mail]
4. Try alias1<CR>alias2<CR>
5. Be disappointed
6. Try alias1<CR><WAIT>alias2<CR>
7. Sigh.

Text-based mailers & old netscape mail allowed the easy 'comma-separated'
resolution.

(I consider this a usability bug, though non-typists would probably consider it
an enhancement).

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94540 ***