286818 - Can't use cut & paste of multiple entries in a mailing list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282841

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[David J. Marcus]

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I wanted to copy the entries from one list into another.

Cut & paste of multiple entries does not work, forcing me to copy each entry of 
the list individually --- a major pain.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a mailing list with multiple entries
2.Create a new mailing list
3.Try to cut & paste entries from the first list to the new list

Actual Results:  
Cut & paste would not select multiple entries

Expected Results:  
Allow cut & paste of multiple entries

Comment 1

[Rishi Chopra]

I absolutely agree; you can see my post about this here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=57534&highlight=

In breif, the interface should facilitate cutting and pasting of more than one
email address at a time. MS Outlook's UI allows for this. The closest non-mail
analogue I can think of is a 'mail merge' in MS Word, and that too allows a user
to cut and paste more than one address from a given list.

A simple workaround might be allowing a user to save a complete message (not
just text but header also) to .txt format, and allowing a user to open/compose a
new message from .txt - but since you guys are the wizards, I'm sure you can
think of a better solution.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #0)
>...
> Actual Results:  
> Cut & paste would not select multiple entries

in fact c&p cannot select even a single entry.

the workaround is drag and drop one or more entries from one mailing list to
another mailing list (or from address book). I.E. 
1. expand an address book to display the mailing lists in the leftmost panel
2. click mailing list A
3. select an address in the right panel (the addresses in the mailing list)
4. go to a different address and use ctrl-click or shift-click to select
multiple addresses
5. drag the addresses to a mailing list B

WFM TB version 1.0+ (20050809)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still no c&p after bug 35837
is this a dup of bug 282841?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping
(+ reporter, David, appears to be gone)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 282841 ***