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Having lots of problems with my thunderbird e-mail.

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When I use Thunderbird to send an e-mail, i Hold down the key to include more than 1 name and it auto goes to the 'to' line, i want it to go to bcc. so i have to put the curser on the bcc line for each name. Before nothing happened until i pressed bcc for all the names and then send. It also adds names from a second file and I delete these names and it is right back, very frustrating.

When I use Thunderbird to send an e-mail, i Hold down the key to include more than 1 name and it auto goes to the 'to' line, i want it to go to bcc. so i have to put the curser on the bcc line for each name. Before nothing happened until i pressed bcc for all the names and then send. It also adds names from a second file and I delete these names and it is right back, very frustrating.

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wayneferro said

When I use Thunderbird to send an e-mail, i Hold down the key to include more than 1 name

What key? I think you best explain exactly what you are doing like I am a 4 year old.

When I address mail, I start typeing, select the entry in the displayed list and then start typing again.

If I use the contacts sidebar in the compose window (f9) I click the Add to buttons at the bottom of the pane to ensure they go where I want them. Especially with the new version being fixated on not displaying a BCC choice first up.

SO I need an explanation as to what you are actually doing.

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Found under https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1308983

wayneferro said

Hi Matt, Thank you for your quick reply. When sending an e-mail, i hold the control down and hit my list individually, as to who I want to send to. Also when holding the control down, i hit the 'bcc' initially, and as i am starting with each highlighted name, after a few names it pops in to the 'to' column. It all goes to the 'to' person, not to the 'bcc' before i am finished highlighting the names. Also i use 2 columns in my address book, my major column ( being personal address book) has names from the secondary column, (collected addresses,) pop into the major column automatically, weird. I then delete the unwanted name and next time i email it pops back into the unwanted column. Is this clear for you to understand my delemma? Thanks Wayne
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perhaps you need to lift your finger off the Ctrl key before you click add to BCC. I would not be clicking on the BCC button at all in that scenario as there is a perfectly good button in the address panel to use to add them to the BCC list.