232234 - pasting spreadsheet column of email addresses to compose "To" field results in only one address

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227206

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Cheryl at University of Toronto]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

Many office workers store lists of email addresses in spreadsheets. When copying
a column of email addresses from Microsoft Excel or Openoffice Spreadsheet and
pasting into Mozilla Mail's Compose "To" address field, the result is only the
first address. This works correctly when pasting into Microsoft Outlook and
Microsoft Outlook Express - all addresses appear with correct separators.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. type in a bunch of email addresses in a spread sheet column
2. open a compose window in thunderbird
3. copy and paste the column of email addresses in the "To" field

Actual Results:  
only the first email address appears in the "To" field

Expected Results:  
all email addresses should show up in the "To" field with proper separators

This works correctly when pasting into Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook
Express - all addresses appear with correct separators.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227206 ***