165059 - Delete key to put in trash

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Can we please get an option in the preferences so that if a message is selected,
and a user presses the delete key, it puts the message in trash (doesn't
actually delete).

It's a great feature that Netscape 4 and Outlook have.  It should be an option
easily accessible to the user because some like me like an archive of old mail,
while some want to save disk space.

Comment 1

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Mod to previous comments:

Have the delete button in the menu bar also react to this setting.  

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

huh? isn't this the default action?

  delete - put msg into trash folder
  shift+delete - erase msg

Comment 3

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Haven't had that work on my XP Thinkpad or my Mac OS 9/Mac OS X system.  Delete
key never does anything, and delete button deletes the message.

Tested with various versions.  Latest being Netscape 7.0 PR 1

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

Reporter, please download Mozilla 1.1 (just released) and test again.
Netscape 7 is not really an up-to-date Mozilla brand.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I've been seeing this on the trunk for weeks now on Linux (up to and including
today's build).  I thought it was just me, but..

Comment 6

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Same with 1.1 on both systems.  I don't have any clue why this is occuring, but 
it does.  

Comment 7

[J Luh]

The problem described is similar to bug 72873

Comment 8

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Should be resolving as FIXED, as it now works fine.  My guess would be someone
intentionally, or accidentally fixed it.  

bzbarsky:  You still have this problem?  Or is it resolved for you as well?

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No, it works for me to.  Which is what the resolution should be for a bug if
it's not known what exact checkin fixed it, btw.... ("worksforme").

Comment 10

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Should be WFM