491607 - Drag and Drop email to create Contacts

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[colemangreg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.21

This is my first post and my first time using Thunderbird coming off Outlook 2003 and 2007. I apologize in advanced if this is not the correct place to post this or not.

In Thunderbird there is no default view to see the Contact list. You would have to download the add on called Contacts Sidebar. This makes Thunderbird more Outlook Express like. Here is the problem.

I downloaded 3 email accounts (Gmail, yahoo, hotmail). I simply dragged one of my emails from a friend into the Contact list and then a new Compose Email option appeared.

I did not want that, I simply wanted to see the contact appear in the Contact list side bar just like Outlook and Outlook Express do. I also right clicked a known good email to see if it had "Add to contact list"

I am really surprised this simple and common feature, even on Webmail sites like Gmail, has not been implemented. I would even go so far as to say this would be considered a standard.

Am I missing something? You have to manually enter each and every contact?

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10)
> Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> Build Identifier: 2.0.0.21

> Am I missing something? You have to manually enter each and every contact?
> 

Maybe I not understand your problem... but if you open compose mail for writing a new email, you can display on the left contact sidebar (click to F9 to enable\disable).

This resolve your issue?

Comment 2

[colemangreg]

Sorry for not explaining this, and I just went through this yesterday and thought it was strange.

I setup Thunderbird
Set it up to grab my GMAIL's
It downloaded 114 emails.
Of which about 80 of those emails are legit contacts.

Why can't I simply drag and drop one or many emails into my contact list in Thunderbird and have Thunderbird make contacts based on the email address and user name?

I can do this in Outlook and Outlook Express.

Unless I am missing something, Thunderbird will only allow you to create contacts manually correct? Or if i send an email to someone the contact will appear in my Thunderbird contacts?

Thanks

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry for not explaining this, and I just went through this yesterday and
> thought it was strange.
> 
> I setup Thunderbird
> Set it up to grab my GMAIL's
> It downloaded 114 emails.
> Of which about 80 of those emails are legit contacts.
> 
> Why can't I simply drag and drop one or many emails into my contact list in
> Thunderbird and have Thunderbird make contacts based on the email address and
> user name?
> 
> I can do this in Outlook and Outlook Express.

Ciao greg.
I dont remember exactly the TB 2.0.xxx feature, but sure in TB 3.0 (still is beta) you can add account to address book simple clicking it on msgHeader.
If I'm not wrong this not is possible in TB release previous of 3.0.

> Unless I am missing something, Thunderbird will only allow you to create
> contacts manually correct? 
> Or if i send an email to someone the contact will appear in my Thunderbird contacts?

No: in option, tab composition -- addressing you can check "automatically add outgoing e-mail addresses to my..."
> 
> Thanks

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

if you are asking for something to "bulk" process messages and create contacts from the addresses in those message, then this is a duplicate