84028 - Card with multiple addresses should ask which one to use. Always uses first address field

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Karthik Sheka]

Select from the address book a card with two email addresses and then click on
new message.

What happens:
the message gets sent to the first email address in the card.

What should happen:
the user gets prompted with all the valid addresses in the card to select which
one(s) to send email to.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

confirmed with 062615 mozilla build on win2k

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

reassigning to racham

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

in fact, it always uses the first address field, even if that field is empty (which might be a separate existing bug - i didn't search for one)

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Is there a way forward?
Also, I suspect there is another bug report on the same topic.

Comment 6

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 84028 - Let the user choose an address when starting a message from the address book window. r?mkmelin

Also automatically use the secondary address if the primary address is empty.

Comment 7

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

It's both easier and more complicated than it looks.

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/6f53a91c5828
Let the user choose an address when starting a message from the address book window. r=mkmelin

Comment 9

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Comment on attachment 9182291 [details]
Bug 84028 - Let the user choose an address when starting a message from the address book window. r?mkmelin

[Approval Request Comment]
Might as well take this to ESR 78. This code may not exist come the next ESR, and that would be a waste. :-)

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9182291 [details]
Bug 84028 - Let the user choose an address when starting a message from the address book window. r?mkmelin

[Triage Comment]
Approved for next beta

Comment 11

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 83.0b2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/4a1af6a8b5ab

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9182291 [details]
Bug 84028 - Let the user choose an address when starting a message from the address book window. r?mkmelin

[Triage Comment]
Approved for esr78

Comment 13

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 78.4.1:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr78/rev/4b75cd0345de

Comment 14

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Sorry I missed testing this in 83.0b2. Must have missed the bug in the list.

After teaching myself how to do this, it is working in my test of the 78.4.1 release candidate on
Windows 10.

Selected a contact configured with an additional email address in the contacts address book entry.
Clicked the "Write" icon in the Address Book Toolbar.
Had the selection of the two email addresses appear in a drop-down.
Selected the additional email address and the composition window opened.

Now how do I add my two Gmail addresses and my AOL address to that address book entry and have all five selections.