I'm trying to send mail to multiple recipients by typing a partial name in, seeing the intended recipient, clicking on that name, then typing a comma or semi-colon to put in the next name the same way, but when i type the comma or semi-colon, the address line becomes red, and doesn't continue suggesting the address of the next partially typed in name. I would do this in Outlook with no problem. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help
Comma or Semi-colon to Send Mail to Multiple Recipients
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Re: Comma or Semi-colon to Send Mail to Multiple Recipients
Thunderbird does not support auto-completion of more than one email address per line. You can enter multiple addresses, separated by commas, but only the first will generate auto-complete suggestions.
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Re: Comma or Semi-colon to Send Mail to Multiple Recipients
DanRaisch wrote:Thunderbird does not support auto-completion of more than one email address per line. You can enter multiple addresses, separated by commas, but only the first will generate auto-complete suggestions.
yikes. that's terrible. im sure noone care, but this might be the one reason i cant make the switch from outlook. is that an add-on there i can use?
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Not that I'm aware of but you can use a different procedure. While in the composition window press F9 (or use menu path View->Contact Sidebar). Use Ctrl+click to select all of the names you wish to send the message to and then click on "To:" or "CC:" or "BCC:" to address the message. You can do that separately for each of type of addressee (To:, CC:, BCC:) as Thunderbird clears the selections when you click on the button to add the addresses to the message.
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Re: Comma or Semi-colon to Send Mail to Multiple Recipients
i just tried the F9 method. what it lacks is the option to choose which e-mail address from that contact that. i also don't have any add-ons installed and it seems very buggy. i chose a contact who i confirmed had an e-mail address on file, and it refused to add the contact to 'to' column, where it let me add others.DanRaisch wrote:Not that I'm aware of but you can use a different procedure. While in the composition window press F9 (or use menu path View->Contact Sidebar). Use Ctrl+click to select all of the names you wish to send the message to and then click on "To:" or "CC:" or "BCC:" to address the message. You can do that separately for each of type of addressee (To:, CC:, BCC:) as Thunderbird clears the selections when you click on the button to add the addresses to the message.
again, im sure noone cares, and im not trying to be a troll, but this one thing has forced me to uninstall Thunderbird. I can't make the switch
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OK. Not a problem.
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i now realize the reason the e-mail address wasn't being added was because the contact didn't have a primary e-mail stored, and only a secondary e-mail. that shouldn't matter though. where is the option to chose which e-mail to send to from the contacts panel?
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Re: Comma or Semi-colon to Send Mail to Multiple Recipients
I think there is a bug open [Bug 440377] for this single line address completion. Not sure if/when it will ever get fixed. The whole address box field design in TB is absolutely horrible IMHO. It wastes precious real-estate space on the screen. If I were to send email to multiple address, managing them by scrolling up/down method is just plain bad IMHO. I use a LDAP server for addresses and it make it even worse, not to have the ability to add/look up multiple address in the address box. But this is all one person's opinion.
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its a tragedy really. the app is great. this just seems like something that obviously needs to be taken care of like yesterday. im not here to troll or anything, but i just really want to switch from outlookGuest wrote:I think there is a bug open [Bug 440377] for this single line address completion. Not sure if/when it will ever get fixed. The whole address box field design in TB is absolutely horrible IMHO. It wastes precious real-estate space on the screen. If I were to send email to multiple address, managing them by scrolling up/down method is just plain bad IMHO. I use a LDAP server for addresses and it make it even worse, not to have the ability to add/look up multiple address in the address box. But this is all one person's opinion.
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Re: Comma or Semi-colon to Send Mail to Multiple Recipients
Agreed, the address book in Thunderbird is a significantly weak element of the program. There were posts before the release of version 3.0 that suggested that work had been started on updating the address book to use a new database but those was either inaccurate or over-optimistic about the timing for such an update.
On the other hand, Thunderbird is an email client and is not intended to be a replacement for Outlook which is closer to a PIM than just an email client.
If you try using the functionality in Thunderbird for a while you may find that it is a matter of getting used to a different way of working. It works...just not the way you are used to.
On the other hand, Thunderbird is an email client and is not intended to be a replacement for Outlook which is closer to a PIM than just an email client.
If you try using the functionality in Thunderbird for a while you may find that it is a matter of getting used to a different way of working. It works...just not the way you are used to.