1667759 - Add CC and Reply-To fields to message composer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1616514

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Paul Menzel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0

Steps to reproduce:

Compose a message with addresses for Cc and Reply-To without using the mouse.

Actual results:

Switching from Thunderbird 68.x to 78.3.1, in the composer window, CC and Reply-To fields are not present by default, and buttons have to be clicked with the mouse to enable them.

I couldn’t find a configuration option to enable fields by default.

Expected results:

The user should be able to configure the message composer to have certain fields enabled by default.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Paul Menzel from comment #0)

Hey Paul, thanks for the feedback - next time you might want to try this first:
https://support.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird
Also, there's detailed documentation on the new addressing area here:

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-78
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/addressing-email/

Compose a message with addresses for Cc and Reply-To without using the mouse.
Switching from Thunderbird 68.x to 78.3.1, in the composer window, CC and Reply-To fields are not present by default, and buttons have to be clicked with the mouse to enable them.

Not true :-) Shift+Tab a few times will do the trick, or you could select recipients and press context menu key, then "move to cc/bcc".
Also note bug 1667692 which explores having dedicated keyboard shortcuts.

From New in Thunderbird 78:

To add one or more recipients of another type, use the Cc, Bcc, or >> buttons on top of the To: addressing field. You can also hold down the Shift key and press Tab as often as required to navigate to these buttons.

I couldn’t find a configuration option to enable fields by default.
The user should be able to configure the message composer to have certain fields enabled by default.

Good point! I'm working on that in bug 1616514 (option to show CC/BCC by default).
As for Reply-to, you could enable auto-Reply-To for your identity in account settings.

≡ > Account Settings > Your Account > Reply-to Address: