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  How do I make an address list from an email? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-17 22:25 +0100
    Re: How do I make an address list from an email? Dirk Fieldhouse <surname@gmx.net.plusremovethisandtherest.invalid> - 2026-04-18 13:52 +0100
      Re: How do I make an address list from an email? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-18 14:09 +0100
        Re: How do I make an address list from an email? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-18 14:37 +0100

#8526 — How do I make an address list from an email?

If I have an email which contains addresses in this form:

Firstname Lastname <email@example.com>, Firstname2 Lastname2
<email2@example.com>,...

and I want to make them into an address list, rather than reply all.

I tried to cut and paste from the To: field but it wouldn't let me, so I
did ctrl-u to view the source and cut and paste from there, then opened
address book and tried to paste them into a new list, but it put them
all in the first box. If I composed a new email and pasted them into the
To: field it put them in but showed red which I think meant the syntax
was wrong.

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#8527

On 17/04/2026 22:25, Richmond wrote:
> If I have an email which contains addresses in this form:
> 
> Firstname Lastname <email@example.com>, Firstname2 Lastname2
> <email2@example.com>,...
> 
> and I want to make them into an address list, rather than reply all.

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

-- 
London
UK

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#8528

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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#8529

On 2026-04-18, Richmond wrote:
[...]
> 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.

Both the address list properties and recipient headers in SeaMonkey will
take comma-separated addresses. There is IIRC a bug in the syntax
highlighter which will show red even for valid syntax.

Copying your example and pasting it in a row of the list dialog did
create a list with two addresses here, along with adding an address book
entry/card for each of these addresses.

-- 
Nuno Silva

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