Re: Thunderbird Addressing

Peter,

Thanks. I tried scrolling through the add-ons; guess I got dizzy from so many before I reached the right one - or my eyes glazed over. Add-ons are one of the pluses to both Firefox and Thunderbird.

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Colpaert, Peter
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:25 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Thunderbird Addressing

Jerry,

I installed the Contacts Sidebar extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/70/

It will give you a list of all contacts next to the email you're composing, with "To", "CC" and "BCC" buttons to add them.

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
Software Engineer - PLM Development Team
Philips Consumer Luminaires
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: maandag 31 mei 2010 21:55
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] 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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