218587 - Drag and drop messages to other applications like MS word

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189932

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Jens Kohl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2

In the message list view it should be possible to to copy a selected message and paste it into a 
text-application like word. The inserted text can equal an forwarded inline message with date, 
subject, from and to attributes.

If my explaination is hard to understand (sorry, I'm not a natural speaker) you can test it with 
Outlook Express and MS Word. Select a message, hit Ctrl-C, switch to Word and press Ctrl-V.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Related: Bug 189932

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

this sshould be a dup on mozilla mailnews

Comment 3

[Jens Kohl]

I don't think so. Bug 189932 describes only transfering headers (all headers, for archiving it to a 
personal text journal all headers is IMHO overkill), and not the body itself.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't think so. Bug 189932 describes only transfering headers (all headers,
> for archiving it to a personal text journal all headers is IMHO overkill),
> and not the body itself.

That's a superficial understanding of what that bug is requesting.  The point 
is, Mozilla does not provide multiple data flavors when dragging a message; 
there are many possibilities, and different drop targets will be able to accept 
different subsets of those flavors.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189932 ***