Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.seamonkey Subject: Re: How do I make an address list from an email? Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:09:28 +0100 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <82h5p89zzr.fsf@example.com> References: <82eckdgtyw.fsf@example.com> <10rvups$gqgv$1@solani.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="590382"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2p1TNatcmurYuiJhCdmlG5Ubn/k= sha1:l7EbIErSJxrZngjLvxxfme+DrCc= X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBgDAIA7CXnNAi5zAo/59gAuNhhxN0LDZVrsiaieEJgW/TrrdMiJZfz9znqzaYkT8tORFJ Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.seamonkey:8528 Dirk Fieldhouse 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 > ". 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 > > 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.