315086 - Allow for "Detach As..." (renaming attachments when detaching them)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 479200

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David von Oheimb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: 

When detaching an attachment, it is often very handy to change the file name
(analogously to "Save As..."), e.g. when the orginal name is inappropriate.

Note that the obvious workaround, viz. renaming the file after detaching it, 
is not only cumbersome, but makes the X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL invalid.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 316443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Ronald Killmer]

Given the bits and widgets are already available for the save as... this sounds like it only needs some hookup code to reuse existing tools.  Definate plus for when the detach function gets turned on in release builds. 

Comment 3

[David von Oheimb]

There have been attempts to solve this problem, but so far not successful:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448576
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479200

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duping forward. (More info in bug 479200.)