Closed Bug 558730 Opened 15 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Contacts should have default mail address type eg. to, cc, bcc

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271917

People

(Reporter: steve, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Future Enhancement Allow the establishment of a mail address type (MAT) for each contact, the default would be "To:", but both "C.c." and "B.c.c." could be selected. This would allow a contact to be selected from the contacts list, but rather than the default of dbl-click to place them on the address line as a "To:", the (MAT) would define how they are placed on the address list. I have certain contact lists that are used only as "B.c.c.", mainly for anonymity of the list members. Unfortunately, sometimes this contact list gets added as a "To:" meaning everyone gets to see everyone else (plus the arriving email looks ugly). Of course the default MAT could be overridden on the address line of the email if required. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1.None - future enhancement 2. 3. Actual Results: See above Expected Results: See above None
I agree with this proposal. It could be a workaround for Bug 271917 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271917

(In reply to lonepsi from comment #1)

I agree with this proposal. It could be a workaround for Bug 271917
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271917

Indeed, this RFE is trying to work around bug 271917. I have some ideas for fixing that bug.
We need to improve the responsiveness and flexibility of adding contacts via contacts sidebar.
This is not the right way of fixing the problem, as it will create new problems and user errors.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Contacts have default mail address type eg. to, cc, bcc → Contacts should have default mail address type eg. to, cc, bcc
Severity: normal → N/A

Maybe for mailing lists - that's bug 163498.

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