169432 - cannot copy a set of email addresses from plain text file when creating a new list

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Gábor Ziegler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; hu-HU; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; hu-HU; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Suppose you have a txt file containing just email address, one per a line. No
commas, no girst names, nothing fancy, just good old plain email adresses.
You want to build a distribution list from them.

There is no way to do this (see below)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a txt file, containing just plain RFC 822 email addresses.
(copy-pasted from a column of an Excel sheet to Noticepad, for example),
sperated by new lines. That is, one plain email address perline. Copy the
content to clipboard.
2. Open address book, click File->New->Mailing lists
3. Fill in the compulsory field: the name of the new list 
3. Go to the address filed entries, and paste (ctrl-v)

Actual Results:  
only the first line will be pasted

Expected Results:  
paste all lines as separate addresses, even if the clipboard contained 15
zillion lines with single email addresses per lines
(Okay, if I could do this with, say, with at least  203 adresses, that would be
fine. That was my task today).

This feature has worked properly up to atleast Netscape 4.72

Comment 1

[Ethan Benatan]

Also seen on Thunderbird Mac version 1.0 (20041206); also reported in 200130.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

see diz from Bug 200130 comment 0 too

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 200130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

If multiple addresses are specified on a line, when we update the mailing list,
add all the addresses to the list, not just the first one. This fix doesn't
make it so we break up the line immediately after tabbing out or pressing
return, like we do in the compose window, but it does update the list
correctly.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 181178 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

a=asa

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 264689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 255818 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 275482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 168009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 326216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Lyle Greg Lisle]

Why is this marked resoved when it still doesn't work?  I just checked Seamonkey 1.0.5 and it still takes only the first address.

Comment 12

[:Hb]

REOPEN for (..U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091107 

Testcase:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Comment 13

[:Hb]

Win has "1" for pasteNewLines, Linux 0. Plan is to set this pref. to two. For addresses "4" seem to be good.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines