631857 - Would like to select specific mailing lists/address books when saving an email address

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 456167

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[Greg C]

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In version 2, when I saved an address from the header of an mail, I would get an option to bring up a dialog, and select the address book/mailing list where I wanted to save the email. With version 3, this option appears to no longer be available. Is there an add on available to restore the old functionality? 

I correspond with people in different states, and I would like to save their addresses by their state of residence. I would like to do this without first having to save the address in a default address book, then go find it again, then put it in the right mailing list. 

I could also edit the details for the contact and enter the state field, but as best I can tell, there's no way for me to group the addresses by state from the address book.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on an address
2. The only option for saving is to the previously selected address book.




Ideally, I would like a popup menu option on the email address that would let me select the address book and mailing list to store it in.

Alternatively, if I select the "edit contacts" option, if I could then select the address book/mailing list, that would be fine.

As a third alternative, I could sort the entries in my default address book by fields like "state" and then select from those to place in the address book.

Thanks,

Greg

Comment 1

[Anje]

Not so much a bug as a request.
This addon will allow you to select the address book of choice plus loads more;
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html