Thunderbird Addressing

Last week or so we were talking about my issues with Outlook Express no longer running on my home PC. I took the advice of several here and downloaded Thunderbird. I had actually used to 2-3 years ago before we went to an Exchange server for Outlook here at work. So I thought I would have an easy transition.

Actually the conversion wasn't too bad. In the Address book it dropped a few names and didn't maintain my groups as I had them defined in OE. It did (it seems so far) convert all of my OE mail folders, which was the major concern that I had.

The biggest usage problem that I am having right now is addressing emails. TBird is, like most email clients, pretty good at finding possible addresses as one types. However, I'm used to clicking the TO:, CC:, or BCC: buttons and giving the address book display and from there selecting a group (if I don't want the general list) and then picking the individual addresses to whom I want to send the message. When I click the TO: button in TBird, all I get is the option to change it to CC: or whatever. I have not found any way to retrieve the address(es) from the address book.

Now I did find in TBird's address book a Write option, but as far as I'm been able to find it always addresses the selections as TO: I do work from several organizations (class, church, etc.) and most of the people prefer that their addresses not be shared so I always use the BCC: option - at least I did in the past. Some of my

Is there any way to use the address book as a list interface when addressing an email in TBird? I checked settings, and every button on the menu bar. Nothing seemed to point to that feature/ability. I even googled on TBird and none of the tutorials or KB's even mentioned this as a possibility. Like I said, it's been over 2 years since I last used it, but I was awfully sure that I had done this in TBird before.

Jerry C. Adams
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