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Re: How do I make an address list from an email?

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Dirk Fieldhouse <surname@gmx.net.plusremovethisandtherest.invalid>
writes:

> While I don't think the address list concept is fully implemented, you
> can create an address list and use it as an address, but the final
> result is an email with all the destination addresses, because that's
> how email works. If you want the recipients to get individual or
> apparently individual responses, you can BCC: the list address, or
> else you need to use a mailing list service.
>
> 1. Create an address list in the Address Book applet, with a name and
> description (optional, but helpful).  2. Open the Properties dialog
> for the new address list, one-by-one copy each address field into the
> address list, then close the dialog.  3. In a new message type the
> name of the address list into an address field of the new message: as
> you tab out of the field it will resolve the list name, showing "name
> <description>". Or you could pick the address list from the completion
> drop-down.  4. When you save-and-reopen or send the message the
> address list value in the address field will be exploded into a
> comma-separated list of the address list entries.
>
> At (3) you could instead select Compose from the address list's
> context menu, but that immediately populates To: fields with the
> address list entries (probably the wrong thing).
>
> After (4) the address list entry is history, although it might have
> been possible to preserve the relationship between the address list
> and its addresses in a saved or sent email with some x-address-list
> magic.
>
> There is a TB extension
> <https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/popmaillistrecipients>
> that is said to allow the list to be customised when adding it, but
> (a) it doesn't work directly in SM (code conversion needed, not just
> allowing SM as a target) (b) you could just as well save/reopen/edit
> yourself. Certainly my need for this is insufficient to spend time on
> (a).
>
> HTH /df

Thanks, what I was hoping for was to avoid editing the list of emails,
as there were quite a lot of them. So either pasting them into the "To:"
field, or pasting them into the address book, as they were, would have
been ideal. What I did in the end was paste them into Evolution which
accepted them as they were.

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