275482 - address book will not separate multiple addresses when importing from 'mailto' link in html email message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169432

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Max Waterman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I received an email message formatted in html containing a mailto link to
multiple email addresses in the form :

<mailto:[e-mail]%3E,%20first1%20last1%20%3Cb.com%3E,%20first2%20last2%20%3Cc.com>

This was entered in an html message using Thunderbird's 'Insert HTML' facility.
I entered plain spaces, commas, and angle brackets (<>) as email addresses are
commonly quoted.

If I click on the link in order to send a message to the list of addresses, a
compose window appears, and it will correctly separate the addresses.

Right clicking on the list and selecting 'add to address book' results in a
single entry in the address book with one long 'address'.

Please consider changing the behaviour to separate the addresses correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Energy Institute]

Not necessarily for imported address book files. Even if you create a new entry.

Let's say your entry is for Joe Smith. He has two email addresses. Everytime you
email him, you want it to go to both addresses.  In the address book you put in
both addresses like, [e-mail], [e-mail]

Nickname is "Joe."

Create a new message. In the "To:" field you type, "Joe." The field
automatically fills in but this is how it will look:    Joe Smith
<"jsmith"@psu.edu, [e-mail]>

It puts quotes around the first part of the first email address. The is very
reproducible.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This was fixed by bug 169432 (same description) duping to that one

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