264689 - Support comma-separated lists of email addresses when creating/editing a mailing list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169432

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Hem Ramachandran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

open address book.
Add a new list.
Copy comma separated email address from a multiple mailing email
pasted the list onto the 'type email address....' box.
Press enter
Save it.
open the list back.
There is only the first email.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
open address book.
Add a new list.
Copy comma separated email address from a multiple mailing email
pasted the list onto the 'type email address....' box.
Press enter
Save it.
open the list back.
There is only the first email.

Actual Results:  
only saves the first email

Expected Results:  
The address book should have parsed the list and added as a list of all the
comma separated email IDs to save as a list.


An older version of Netscape address book had that capability 4.7 or so.
But that feature disappeared later.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Confirming. This make also sense for consistency reasons since comma-separated
lists of email addresses are supported when composing a new message.

Tuning summary a bit, because the creation of the mailing list doesn't really
fail when you try to enter a comma-separated list. Instead only the first
address from the list is accepted.

Comment 2

[Ethan Benatan]

Yep, confirmed on 

Comment 3

[Ethan Benatan]

I can confirm on Thunderbird (Mac) version 1.0 (20041206). Also note the related
bugs 169432 and 200130 (which are identical, I'm going to go mark them).

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

bug 169432 has implemented this - marking as duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169432 ***