664800 - Should be able to autocomplete comma separated values in To/CC/BCC fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 528503

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Reported by a friend of mine.

Steps to reproduce:
1)  Get two contact names from your address book.  I'll call them X and Y.
2)  Open up a compose window
3)  Enter X's name without pausing, a comma, and then Y's name
4)  Press TAB

What happens?

Each name gets split into it's own To/CC field, but they're not autocompleted.

What'd be nice, is for each field to be autocompleted with the first matching hit for each comma separated value.

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

I think there are a couple bugs on this. Currently, I'm waiting on bug 626532 to be fixed, at which point I'll try to make a prettier addressing widget (one with one row per header, instead of one row per address).

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

> Each name gets split into it's own To/CC field, but they're not autocompleted.
Thanks for getting back to this, but it was filed more than a year ago already.