NEW VERSION has a serious problem with the recepient fields

Question

TO
CC
BCC
old version I could paste from excel a list of email addresses into the TO field and it would work perfectly even if:
they had a "," (comma) at the end of each email
or if
they had a line break (one empty row)
TB would just recognize them as valid - for example:
"[email protected],
[email protected]
[email protected]"
would be treated as
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW VERSION BUG:
it chokes at both the comma and the empty line -- it sends the message but puts a comma as
",[email protected]"
when sending the [email protected] line for example.
PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM.
THANK YOU
Also I find the graying of the header section when not active to be annoying BECAUSE IT MAKES IT HARD TO READ (BLACK ON GRAY HAS NO CONTRAST) -- WHY MAKE IT SO FANCY AND BAD? TB IS GREAT ALREADY
THANK YOU

Answer 1

Hi Toad - thanks for the note. I saw that you were able to recreate it -- your first reply talking about importing addresses .csv etc. is all fine but the way I have used TB for years is as follows. I run several mailing lists etc.
for example
I go to excel
and I copy let's say a 100 rows (1 column) that contain either
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[email protected]
[email protected], [email protected]
[email protected],
<BLANK cell anywhere>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THEN I go to TB - put curser in BCC field (change TO to BCC) - and hit paste.
It pastes it as one line.
THEN I press RETURN
and it separates it to multiple BCC lines.
This has always worked.
The new version chokes at this
AT THE BLANK LINE
AT THE COMMA
ETC.....
Thanks for reporting it b/c it's a very important bug.
''Toad-Hall [[#answer-670828|said]]''
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I've just tested this on my system.
Test one:
Copy pasted two email addresses from a column in an excel sheet.
One was above the other - no blank rows.
Pasted as two email addresses separated by a comma.
Sent and received ok, so the commas did not cause an issue.
Test two:
Created a blank line/row in excel sheet between the two email addresses, then copy pasted the two plus the blank line.
In TO field this was shown as: email address followed by two commas then last email address.
When sent this caused the second email address to become invalid. After fist comma, it added double quotes followd by a comma (where the blank line was positioned) then added another double quote just before the @ in the second email address. this made the second email address invalid.
So it is definately not working with blank lines.
First email received ok, second email returned a Mail Delivery Service Delivery Status Notification - Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table.
However, if you imported the .csv file as an address book, you could use it within Thunderbird. If wanting to send one email to several people, then create Mailing Lists. This does not fix your scenario, but it will resolve the issue of sending one email to a group of valid email addresses.
Info on Mailing lists.
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-create-and-use-mailing-lists
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