93724 - Select multiple messages and add all addresses to a _specific_ AB

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron Lawrence]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2001062815

Hi guys,

In NS4.7 there was a message right click item to "add sender to address book" 
and "add all to address book".

There doesn't seem to be any such thing in Mozilla yet.

My usage of it is to select a (large) set of messages and add all the 
senders to a mailing list e.g. users of some piece of software I have...

BTW The version in NS 4.7 was not very useful for large numbers of users:
1- it did not detect duplicates
2- it prompted with a card for every name

I had a look in Bugzilla, see nothing obviously relating to this.

I guess you could call it an enhancement, but it was there in NS4.7...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select one or more mails
2. Right click
3. 

Actual Results:  No "add sender to address book" option available

Expected Results:  "add sender to address book" option

Comment 1

[fenella]

Are you filing a feature bug?

I think this bug is not warrant because when you select a message, the sender of
the message will be automatically added to the Collected Address Book.

What do you think? Candice.

Comment 2

[Aaron Lawrence]

I received a mail from Candace but my reply bounced in a big way...

The suggestion was that since users from a viewed mail, are auto collected, 
that there was no need for this feature. 

That's kind of true, but it's very slow if you have a lot of mail. Supposing I 
have a mail folder with 500 mails from users of some piece of software. Instead 
of reading each one of them, I could just select them all and right click 'add 
sender to address book'. It would be useful if I could pick a particular folder 
to put them in. 

I have this situation right now, in fact :)

Comment 3

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

While this feature my not be "need" it would be extremely convenient.  Being
able to 
select a number of messages and adding all of the addresses to a _specific_  AB
would be a great time saver. 

I personally turn of address collection because I do not need to collect from
the various lists I'm subscribed to.  However, there are times when I have to
resort to 
opening a number of messages individually, clicking the address of the sender,
then select  Add to Address book.

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

The Main Mail spec (http://mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/threepane/MailMenus.html)
shows a Message|Add All to Address Book menu item but it does not appear that
this feature has been implemented. I also think it would be a convenient feature.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

reassigning to racham

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

jen, In the 3pane Mail spec under the Message menu it shows an "Add All to
Address Book" menu item. I know that it was intended to work on one message but
what happens when multiple messages are selected? I think it would be a nice
feature so that it would add all addresses for the selected messages.

Changing summary from "Add addresses from selected mail(s) to address book" to 
"Select multiple messages and add all addresses to a _specific_  AB"

Comment 7

[jglick]

The Add Sender to AB and Add All to AB menu items were originally planned but 
sorta feel off when we got the Collected AB feature. If there is a consensus 
that this is still a desireable feature, it could be added. 

Comment 8

[kmurray1115]

doesn't seem to be a highly ranked user need.

Comment 9

[Aaron Sloman]

Very useful for allowing a new user to pick up a lot of email addresses quickly
and easily.

Should also work for email addresses in a message body. E.g. new user gets sent
a list of addresses. Should be able to select them all to go into address boo in
one go.

Later they can be edited to fill in more detail if necessary.

This sort of thing could have saved me trouble with a new email user several
times in the past.

(I did not find it in outlook express -- though I am not really familiar with
that, as I personally only use linux/unix).

I suspect this is a feature many people would find useful if they had it, but
would not realise in advance that they need it. (Like many good UK features.)

Aaron
[e-mail]

Comment 10

[Aaron Sloman]

Apologies for typos in last comment. "good UK features" was meant to be "
good UK features"

Comment 11

[Oneweb]

This still not resolved? :(

Comment 12

[Malcolm Scott]

I would also find this very useful: in my case I have one message sent to 30+
people; I want to add all these to my address book. Filtering them out from the
hundreds of addresses in Collected Addresses would be almost as time-consuming
as typing them all manually :-(

Comment 13

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

mass re-assign.