175051 - can't put multiple email fragments separated by commas into To: line of composer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153360

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Wolf]

I'd like to be able to put multiple email fragments into one composer To: line,
separated by columns, and have Mozilla complete each name.  This worked in
Netscape 4.70, and I use it a lot.

Example:

To: john, tim, fred

Results in Netscape 4.78: show a list of email addresses that match the fragment
'john'.  When one is chosen, it is filled in on the first line, then "tim, fred"
moves to the next line and a list of email addresses is shown for 'tim'.  When
one is chosen for 'tim', "fred" is moved to the last line and a list of email
addresses is shown for 'fred'.

Comment 1

[Wolf]

This occurs in the Solaris 2.6 pre-compiled Mozilla 1.1 tarball download.

Comment 2

[Kenneth Herron]

Err, editor: composer is the html editor, not the editor for writing email messages.

Comment 3

[Ahmad M. Siddiqi]

I think the ability to use comma separated email addresses on the To: and Cc: lines is very helpful. I used this a lot in Netscape 4.7x and I use it in Outlook at work. This was one of the first things that I noticed and reported to Netscape upon installing Netscape 6.0. ... Thanks1

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

You can enter several addresses on the same line separated by a comma but the
auto-complete feature will work only on the first address. This is a known
limitation for wich I am pretty sure we already have an open bug.

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

If I am correct, this issue has been solved in Photon. We should be able to port
over the code to Mozilla. Cc'ing blake

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153360 ***