1837155 - There is no way to select contacts with the mouse and mark certain ones from the list whet crating new mesage.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Alexey]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

there is no possibility to select certain contacts in TB 102 (call button from contacts in the "To" field, a la drop-down list) in the outgoing letter creation window, as it is implemented in other similar programs or the web interface of popular mail services.
That is, I find it inconvenient to select a contact each time by typing it in the "To" field and confirm the selection by "Enter" or the mouse. Thus, I would like to add the ability to select contacts using the mouse by pressing a "special button" in the "To" field (it can be located on the right side of this line).
Either you can make it so that immediately after clicking on the "To" field a drop-down list appears, or if you develop buttons, such as 1 button - Contacts (all) and navigation through them, 2 button - the last used contacts participated in sending a message.

Actual results:

There is no way to select contacts with the mouse and mark certain ones from the list whet crating new mesage.

Expected results:

I would like to add such a function

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Press F9 for the contacts sidebar.
But maybe there's some other problem. (Try Help | Troubleshoot mode). Usually when you type in the To field, contacts are suggested and you an click or press enter to use them.

For support, please refer to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird

Comment 2

[Alexey]

Thanks, this is close to what I would like. It is strange that he did not notice this rhinestone. Since it is hidden in the menu bar - View, I would like to display this contact panel with a separate button on the toolbar or next to the "To" field, since it is worth closing the contact panel with a cross and then you will not immediately remember that you could click View .
And especially when the menu bar is hidden for the sake of minimalism. I think this is an important feature that needs to be more visible to be enabled than it is in a submenu. Thank you.

Comment 3

[Alexey]

Sorry for some words, its not me, its distorts translator from my language.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's the "Contacts" button on that toolbar. If it's not there by default you can right click, customize and add it.

Comment 5

[Alexey]

Согласен, точно, есть такое. Можете удалять эту тему, решено. Извините за мои слепые глаза.

Comment 6

[Alexey]

I agree, there certainly is. You can delete this topic. Excuse my blind eyes.