304132 - Cannot select multiple e-mail addresses from To: or Cc: fields.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 136897

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[DeLesley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1.ed.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716)

Consider the following scenario.  I receive an e-mail addressed to all the
members of an organizing committee.  I wish to save these addresses in a list,
so that I can continue to correspond with the members of the committee. 
Unfortunately, there is no way to copy multiple addresss to a list, or even to
select them in the first place.  I can only select and/or copy individual
addresses, one at a time. 

Currently, my options are:

(*) Create a new list, and copy the addresses one by one.  This is annoying for
an organizing committee of 5 members, and a real pain for my tutorial section of
30+ students.  

(*) Select "View Source", copy the addresses into a text editor, export them to
a .csv file, import them into a separate address book, and drag them to the
list.  It works, but...

(*) Select "View Source", copy the addresses into a *single* vcard, and then
edit the list each time I sent an e-mail to remove the spurious formatting that
Thunderbird adds because it thinks that my list is a single e-mail address.

(*) Abandon lists altogether, save the original e-mail in a special folder
"e-mails_that_I_use_instead_of_lists", and select "Reply to All" every time I
want to send a message to the list.  (Currently, this is the simplest approach.)

None of these options are particularly convenient.  


Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I should be able to highlight all of the addresses in the To: or Cc: fields, and
drag them to either an address book (thus creating multiple entries) or a list.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 270100 -> Core bug 136897, Suite bug 64233 and Suite bug 194784?

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

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