283492 - There is no quick way to change the categories of e-mail addresses or to remove a large group of them

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 136897

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Timothy Barton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

I like the idea of having all the e-mails in a list, rather than seperated by
commas. The problem is that you can't select more than one address at the same
time. I just wrote a message and added all the addresses, then I decided I
should have made them BCC. The only way I found of changing them was to do them
all separately. I know I could have made them all BCC in the first place, but
sometimes you change your mind. I then went to send them, and it told me there
were too many recipients. To remove recipients, I'd have had to have done them
all separately, so I saved the e-mail and opened it in Outlook, which kind of
defeats the purpose of having Thunderbird. I may have to revert to Outlook; it's
too faffy managing addresses in Thunderbird. I've tried looking for a plugin,
but the only one I find is to add an "Add to BCC" button. What I need is to be
able to delete them or change the TO/CC/BCC category. Surely there must be a
better way than having to change them all one by one?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a large number of addresses.
2. Try either to change them all to BCC or to delete half of them.
3.

Actual Results:  
It's impossible to select more than one address. I've tried holding Ctrl and
I've tried dragging, but it seems impossible to do.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

In the MailNews suite, there is an Addresses tool button on the compose window 
which pops up a dialog that allows multiple deletion and also multiple add.
Bug 252665 is about adding that capability to TB.

See also bug 143147.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136897 ***