291661 - Support multiple address books with Junk Mail Control's whitelist

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187771

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Gonyea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Right now, it is impossible to whitelist multiple address books in the Junk Mail
Controls window. This prevents easy organization of e-mail addresses while
providing whitelist protection from the Junk Mail filters.

Currently, you can only select one address book to whitelist.

For example:
I would like to have my personal address book to be just for personal e-mail
addresses (family, friends, co-workers, etc.). This is whitelisted by default.

I would then like another address book for mailing lists that I am a member of,
to prevent any mailing list e-mails for being accidently selected by the junk
mail filter. While I can create that address book, it is impossible to whitelist
those e-mail addresses that are in this address book without un-whitelisting the
my personal address book.

The current "workaround" for this is to just use one address book. However that
makes that one address book very cluttered and tough to find e-mail addresses
when selecting contacts to send e-mails to.

In closing, the ability to whitelist multiple address books would be a great new
feature.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Chris Gonyea]

Attachment: Screenshot of current behavior with description of issue with current whitelist

This is a screenshot of the current behavior for selecting an address book to
whitelist. I wrote some comments in red in the screenshot. Notice that thanks
to a drop-down menu, it is impossible to select multiple address books.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before you file a bug..

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187771 ***