Comment 39 for bug 1085

I agree. I have the same problem as David in Comment 32, though I have discovered a workaround that choosing Reply or Forward on the original message then lets me copy the name from the To: field or the body text, respectively.

What's even more annoying is when I want to copy a list of 50 e-mail addresses (because they haven't adopted a litserv yet) and paste them as recipients of an e-mail I've composed in another window. The only way around this is to do Reply All, accept that most of the recipients will be CC instead of the somewhat-arbitrarily chosen To: (selected based on who sent the message I Reply All on), and then replace the subject, body, options, From, etc. with the new content.

 (In reply to comment #20)
> I think why we don't simply let the user highlight the part they intersted is
> because the message header part of mozilla mail is combine with few components
> (label and textbox etc) rather than one (like Evolution does), thus, its hard to
> implement the function you mentioned. Otherwise, this topic will not last for
> about 5 years( since bug 61497) and with no solution...

No, this topic won't last for 5 years with no solution...we're already beyond 10.