257465 - Unable to paste list of emails into list creation dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 255818

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Dag Arneson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I have a text file that contains emails, one per line, that I want to make a
list in thunderbird.  When I try to copy and paste it in, the newlines get
turned into commas, and the whole list gets entered on the first line.  When I
click OK and then bring up the list editing window again, only the first email
is actually entered into the list.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a new list
2.Paste a newline separated list of emails into the box
3.click okay
4.edit the list again

Actual Results:  
after step 2: the emails get separated by commas instead of creating a new line
for each one
after step 4: only the first email in the comma separated list remains entered
in the list

Expected Results:  
Pasting a newline separated list of emails into the list creation should
generate a new entry for each line.

Comment 1

[Julian Orange]

The same happens on Thunderbird 0.7.3 on Windows XP.
It would be really *great* to get this fixed.  Any progress reports?

Julian Orange

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255818 ***