Comments on: Mozilla Thunderbird Tutorial – Mailing Lists

By: Snapafun

Snapafun — Sun, 22 May 2011 03:25:21 +0000

Great thread this. Heaps of ideas and tips. My problem is that I cannot alphbetically organize the recipents within a mailing list. Any ideas anyone?

By: Doogie

Doogie — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:29:19 +0000

Hi Ina

Perhaps you need to upgrade to a current version of Thunderbird. With the current version, you simply select the List from the Address Book and you can change the List Name or add and subtract e-mails.

By: Ina

Ina — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:53:48 +0000

When I created my very first mailing list, I failed to give it a good name. Now it’s called “Collected Addresses” and I want to rename it. I have not been able to figure out how to do this besides starting over.

By: Doogie

Doogie — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:06:59 +0000

Hi Lauren

The only way that I know to add names to a Thunderbird mailing list is to do it manually. If anyone knows of a better method, feel free to add your tip.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:06:58 +0000

Hello:
I have been successful in setting up and using the mailing lists but my issue is with adding new names to it. When I receive an email from someone who wants to be on my newsletter distribution list, I cannot easily add them. Is there a solution that doesn’t involve many clicks back and forth to get them on the appropriate list? BTW, my email server does not allow more than 100 recipients of any one email, so I have my list members divided up alphabetically.
Thanks,
Lauren

By: Doogie

Doogie — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:08:13 +0000

Unfortunately, we are not the developers and therefore do not set up the rules.

You also have to consider that Thunderbird is not designed to be used for management of extensive mailing lists. It’s personal e-mail client software.

By: Andrew Shackleton

Andrew Shackleton — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:52:20 +0000

Doogie and Andy,

I’m definitely with Andy on this one. The whole point of mailing lists (to me anyway) is that they all point to a single entry in the address book. When you change that single entry ALL the mailing lists should change. Otherwise control of your mailing lists becomes a nightmare!!

By: Doogie

Doogie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:57:52 +0000

Hi Andy

The single addresses and mailing lists are two different things. There is no association between the two. If you want the addresses in a mailing lists to change, you have to change the address in the mailing list.

By: Andy Chisholm

Andy Chisholm — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:21 +0000

I have an address book of club members and have created various mailing lists i.e. All members, Board Members, Project A, Project B etc.

If I change a members email address in the Address Book it doesn’t change in the mailing list which is what I would have expected.

Am I doing something wrong or is this how Thunderbird treats mailing lists ?

By: Michael Gross

Michael Gross — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:13:49 +0000

David:

Brilliant! I just ran a short (20 name test) with one variation: Tbird3 on OS X recognizes Apple’s Address Book as a data source. Mac users can group your addresses using Address Book’s distribution lists (the leftmost pane in the Address Book window) to create the groupings.

Again, my hat’s off to you, David!