262013 - Cannot compose message to additional email address from AB

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1088518

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Bill Kraengel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

The Address Book allows you to enter a second e-mail for a contact, but provides
no way to set either as Default. This means you can never compose a message
using the second e-mail address because it is never visible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Address Book
2. Try to find a contacts second e-mail address so you can Write your message
3.

Actual Results:  
See only first e-mail address.

Expected Results:  
See whichever e-mail address you set as Default.

Comment 1

[Dan]

Confirmed on Windows XP, TB0.8 Milestone

Comment 2

[Mike Fedyk]

The summary needs to be changed to something like: "Can not compose message to
second address in AB from AB".

Comment 3

[Adam Becevello]

Updating summary to reflect the actual bug

Comment 4

[Joshua Nixon]

i would like to see a per-address card option like "always send mail to all of
this contact's addresses"... a global switch wouldn't be as useful i think but
could be implemented (i forsee too many cluttered inboxes if this is a global
option). i currently have to make lists for some of my multiple-email contacts
to make sure they see the things i send.

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 258792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[OstGote!]

per dupe

Comment 7

[Alexander Dietrich]

You *can* compose mail to the additional email address from the Address Book.
Simply click on the "Additional Email" link in the Card pane. WFM

What you *cannot* do is select additional email addresses from the *Contacts*
pane in the Compose window, which is what Bug 258792 is about.

So, close this one and reopen Bug 258792 ?

Comment 8

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #7)
> You *can* compose mail to the additional email address from the Address Book.
> Simply click on the "Additional Email" link in the Card pane. WFM
> 
> What you *cannot* do is select additional email addresses from the *Contacts*
> pane in the Compose window, which is what Bug 258792 is about.
> 
> So, close this one and reopen Bug 258792 ?

Nope, that one was duped to this one.

Comment 9

[ludovic.riche]

(In reply to comment #0)

Actually I would like to use my contact bar after writing the message.
Thus a right-clik on the contact name should for exemple provide me with his different emails.
Or could something like a "browsing view" be created ? clik on the name and the available alternate emails unfold. Maybe as an extension ?

Comment 10

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Nominating wanted-thunderbird3 to keep it on the radar, though this would probably not make TB3, but there's some work on future Address Book interactions that might improve this UI.

Comment 12

[suokunlong]

should be a duplicate of bug 1088518.