168009 - Cannot cut and paste multiple addresses to address book

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169432

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Hem Ramachandran]

In order to create a mailing list under the Address book, it was easy, in older
netscape; just create a new list name, and cut and paste a bunch of addresses
which are comma separated; it will add it one by one in a new line; works
beautifully under Netscape (old, 4.79), but under Mozilla, it will paste only
the first email and Mozilla would just ignores the rest.

Aaargh. Switching to Mozilla made me lose that capability. Appreciate if you can
fix this. Thanks.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

->MailNews

Comment 2

[Max Spicer]

Confirming, but with slightly different behaviour to the description:

Win XP, Mozilla 1.2.1
- Put the following into the clipboard:
bob@moo.z, [e-mail], [e-mail]
- Click New List in addressbook, call it bob and paste cliboard contents into
the top email address line
- Click OK

Double clicking on the new list shows that "bob@moo.z, [e-mail],
[e-mail]" has been preserved as a single address.  Composing to this list
puts "bob <bob>" into the To line, and nothing else!  Works fine under 4.79.

Comment 3

[Ryan Means]

Also confirming, under Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) 
Gecko/20030529. Netscape 4.79 also allowed pasting lists that were separated 
by CR/LFs, I'd like to see this functionality in Mozilla as well.

Thanks!

Comment 4

[Ryan Means]

Confirming again. This is still a bug. Pasting a CR separated list of 
addresses should put an address in each row of the box. Should this be 
assigned to Seth Spitzer? He seems to have most of the AB mailing list bugs in 
his court.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040708

Comment 5

[Lyle Greg Lisle]

This problem bugs my wife so much she won't use Mozilla.  She maintains a
variable list in Access that she needs to contact once a month.  Manually
entering or editing 30 to 50 addresses is NOT an option.

She wants to copy the "email" column and paste it into a new list, like she can
in Outlook and Eudora.

Comment 6

[Hem Ramachandran]

The interesting part of this bug is that it was working like a charm in Netscape
4.x and it lost this capability, when it was released as Mozilla!
Are we going backward in some ways? Netscape was at one point a great application!
Hem

(In reply to comment #0)
> In order to create a mailing list under the Address book, it was easy, in older
> netscape; just create a new list name, and cut and paste a bunch of addresses
> which are comma separated; it will add it one by one in a new line; works
> beautifully under Netscape (old, 4.79), but under Mozilla, it will paste only
> the first email and Mozilla would just ignores the rest.
> 
> Aaargh. Switching to Mozilla made me lose that capability. Appreciate if you can
> fix this. Thanks.

(In reply to comment #5)
> This problem bugs my wife so much she won't use Mozilla.  She maintains a
> variable list in Access that she needs to contact once a month.  Manually
> entering or editing 30 to 50 addresses is NOT an option.
> 
> She wants to copy the "email" column and paste it into a new list, like she can
> in Outlook and Eudora.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This was implemented under bug 169432 which was asking for the same as this - duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169432 ***