479997 - Option to manage email addresses on a single "To:", "Cc:", "Bcc:", etc. line in composition window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 440377

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[IU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090224 Lightning/1.0pre

Please add an option to handle manage email addresses on a single "To:", "Cc:", "Bcc:", etc (comma or semicolon-separated). line in composition window (like most other email clients).

When handling a large recipient list (whether when composing a new email or "reply to all"-responding to one having a large recipient list), the current manner of having each and every address on its own line is very inefficient to work with--especially if one needs to, for instance, copy a block of addresses from "To:" to "Cc:" or quickly delete some addresses.  With a large list this of addresses this currently requires a lot of unnecessary scrolling and clicking.

The current implementation is reasonable only for very small recipient lists (which my include mailing lists).  It gets very laborious beyond that.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Looks like the same as bug 369985 (itself unconfirmed), also similar to MailNews Core bug 440377 comment #2 (again, that one is also unconfirmed).

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This one is clearer than 369985 confirming

Comment 5

[rsx11m]

Hmm, this was confirmed per comment #2 and the duped against bug 440377.
Does this imply that you wanted to confirm bug 440377 as well?

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Hmm, this was confirmed per comment #2 and the duped against bug 440377.
> Does this imply that you wanted to confirm bug 440377 as well?
Yes :-)