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Latest Thunderbird Update Unable To Individually Select Multiple Recipients

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Before the two latest Thunderbird updates which occured today and 3 days ago, and since 2005 or so, I have been able to use the enter button to individually and randomly create multiple recipients, as many as I needed, but now when I hit enter after creating the first recipient, be it to/bcc/cc, Thunderbird does not open up a new to/bcc/cc recipient - it just jumps to the Subject field.

From the top middle of the new updated screen after selecting my first recipient, to/bcc/cc, I can select the bcc or cc to create a 2nd recipient and if I want a 3rd recipient the previous bcc or cc used for the 2nd recipient no longer appears at the top of the screen and if I select the bcc or cc (whichever still appears) it just changes the 2nd recipients cc/bcc selected and no 3rd recipient is created. to create another recipient and if I try to select whichever remains, bcc or cc, it just completely changes the 2nd recipient I selected, cc or bcc. How do I fix this or is this a developers issue that needs to be sorted out.

Before the two latest Thunderbird updates which occured today and 3 days ago, and since 2005 or so, I have been able to use the enter button to individually and randomly create multiple recipients, as many as I needed, but now when I hit enter after creating the first recipient, be it to/bcc/cc, Thunderbird does not open up a new to/bcc/cc recipient - it just jumps to the Subject field. From the top middle of the new updated screen after selecting my first recipient, to/bcc/cc, I can select the bcc or cc to create a 2nd recipient and if I want a 3rd recipient the previous bcc or cc used for the 2nd recipient no longer appears at the top of the screen and if I select the bcc or cc (whichever still appears) it just changes the 2nd recipients cc/bcc selected and no 3rd recipient is created. to create another recipient and if I try to select whichever remains, bcc or cc, it just completely changes the 2nd recipient I selected, cc or bcc. How do I fix this or is this a developers issue that needs to be sorted out.

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Fiona, it's now multiple recipients per row - the design of the addressing area was changed in TB 78 to realize a lot of benefits. After entering each recipient, press Enter exactly once (!) and then just type another one in the same row. Click on CC/BCC disclosure buttons on top to show the container rows for those types, and just add multiple recipients inside each row.

The English version of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/addressing-email has all the details (localized versions might still be outdated).

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I have filed a bug... lets see how it goes. I hope I have covered all the right bits.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675983

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Fiona, Matt,

The bug report and the responses above seem to cover the second half of the problem described by Fiona. The initial part that I also have; i.e. when hitting enter after creating the first recipient, be it to/bcc/cc, Thunderbird does not  open up a new to/bcc/cc recipient field - it just jumps to the Subject field.

Also, in my case when I double click on either the cc or the bcc option at the top of the screen, a cc AND a bcc recipient field is created. After that it is no longer possible to create an additional cc and/or bcc recipient field, similar to the problem with the to field.

This is a real pain Matt, can you please submit this variant on the original problem.

Thanks,

 Tom Seiden
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Fiona, it's now multiple recipients per row - the design of the addressing area was changed in TB 78 to realize a lot of benefits. After entering each recipient, press Enter exactly once (!) and then just type another one in the same row. Click on CC/BCC disclosure buttons on top to show the container rows for those types, and just add multiple recipients inside each row.

The English version of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/addressing-email has all the details (localized versions might still be outdated).

Modified by thomas8