Alternative email does not appear in a drop-down

[Aaron Whitehouse]

Using fully updated Dapper Beta.

This bug occurs when one is typing a name into the "To" field in the Compose window.

I often have alternative email addresses against people (for their work address etc.). Currently, if I only have one Lucy in my address book and I type that in then only the primary email address appears; there is no list to choose the alternative email from.

The unusual thing to me is that if it is Lucy Smith and I have a Bob Smith as well, I can type in smith and it will display both records *and the alternative email addresses for both*!

If there is only one match from the address book for what has been typed but that match has an alternative email against them, then the drop-down list should appear with the choices. Obviously the primary should be at the top of that list and defaulted to.

[Dwoolloff (dwoolloff)]

Confirmed on Windows XP, TB0.8 Milestone

[Mike Fedyk (mfedyk)]

The summary needs to be changed to something like: "Can not compose message to
second address in AB from AB".

[Abecevello+bugs (abecevello+bugs)]

Updating summary to reflect the actual bug

[Nixon049 (nixon049)]

i would like to see a per-address card option like "always send mail to all of
this contact's addresses"... a global switch wouldn't be as useful i think but
could be implemented (i forsee too many cluttered inboxes if this is a global
option). i currently have to make lists for some of my multiple-email contacts
to make sure they see the things i send.

[Ostgote (ostgote)]

*** Bug 258792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Ostgote (ostgote)]

per dupe

[Alexander Dietrich (adietrich)]

You *can* compose mail to the additional email address from the Address Book.
Simply click on the "Additional Email" link in the Card pane. WFM

What you *cannot* do is select additional email addresses from the *Contacts*
pane in the Compose window, which is what Bug 258792 is about.

So, close this one and reopen Bug 258792 ?

[Worcester12345 (worcester12345)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> You *can* compose mail to the additional email address from the Address Book.
> Simply click on the "Additional Email" link in the Card pane. WFM
>
> What you *cannot* do is select additional email addresses from the *Contacts*
> pane in the Compose window, which is what Bug 258792 is about.
>
> So, close this one and reopen Bug 258792 ?

Nope, that one was duped to this one.

[Ludovic-riche (ludovic-riche)]

(In reply to comment #0)

Actually I would like to use my contact bar after writing the message.
Thus a right-clik on the contact name should for exemple provide me with his different emails.
Or could something like a "browsing view" be created ? clik on the name and the available alternate emails unfold. Maybe as an extension ?

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Using fully updated Dapper Beta.

This bug occurs when one is typing a name into the "To" field in the Compose window.

I often have alternative email addresses against people (for their work address etc.). Currently, if I only have one Lucy in my address book and I type that in then only the primary email address appears; there is no list to choose the alternative email from.

The unusual thing to me is that if it is Lucy Smith and I have a Bob Smith as well, I can type in smith and it will display both records *and the alternative email addresses for both*!

If there is only one match from the address book for what has been typed but that match has an alternative email against them, then the drop-down list should appear with the choices. Obviously the primary should be at the top of that list and defaulted to.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

If you have more than one match for each name then it shows both primary and alternate email addresses for each person, if you have one match for a name then the drop down list doesn't appear so you only get their primary address.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

The upstream bug seems to be different because of the summary, and that people are talking about different things inside the bug, but mozilla #258792 was closed as a duplicate of it.

[Gary-rumblingedge (gary-rumblingedge)]

Nominating wanted-thunderbird3 to keep it on the radar, though this would probably not make TB3, but there's some work on future Address Book interactions that might improve this UI.

[Ulysse (ulysse)]

*** Bug 534876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Suokunlong-j (suokunlong-j)]

should be a duplicate of bug 1088518.

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1088518 ***