327132 - Address book display - does not list distribution lists together

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[aslan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Hi folks,
One of the reasons for not using thunderbird(using mozilla application suite instead) is the following :
My requirements :
* I need to send emails to different distribution lists.
* Mails recieved from a member in one distribution list needs to be forwarded to all the other dist lists, except the dist list of the sender.

For this, I need the interface in a way, which shows only the distribution lists followed by all the member ids(something like what mozilla suite does) and not the way thunderbird does it currently,

Thunderbird, shows the distribution list, but it displays the member ids which follows each dist list, so the arrangment is like this.

dist-list1
member1
member2
...
dist-list2
member1
member2
...
and so on,

I have no way of arranging only the dist lists together followed by all the mail ids. if you can provide a sorting mechanism to sort the names based on if they are normal email ids or dist lists, it would be great

In my case I have too many distribution lists, and too many members in each distribution list. So to send a mail to dist lists means that I scroll up and down hunting for only the dist lists among all the email ids of members.

please resolve it for me and/or let me know any workarounds for this issue.

I can attach the screen shot of thunderbird address setup if you like

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
present in Details.

Comment 1

[aslan]

Attachment: address book setup

OOPS!! another thing!! I just noticed that there is no "add to bcc" field.
is it already there, or how do i add my selected list of email ids or dist lists  to Bcc ??

Comment 2

[aslan]

hi guys,
ne ideas on how to resolve this?
rgds

Comment 3

[aslan]

Hi folks,

Am returning after a long time, there is no reply on this,
can you please update me on this one??

regards

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, could you please test with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / trunk nightlies and see if the issue still occurs?

Comment 5

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

No additional useful information since last comment -> resolving incomplete.

Please comment if the issue still occurs in the latest supported 2.0.0.14 / trunk nightlies.