441545 - Ability to rename attachments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190298

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Kevin Cannon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
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I propose a new feature that would allow people to rename attachments.

The rationale is that often the filename you're attaching is an internal filename that has no relationship to the client. You want to keep it as that filename on your computer, but would like the client to see a more friendly name.

Currently, you have to copy the file, rename it and then send that one. If the rename attachment was an option you would not need it.


Example User Scenario:
A business is sending on a proposal to a client.
They go to attach document 08-06-22_BX.pdf, btu realise it's not friendly.
They could then rename the document to ACME_Project_Proposal.pdf within Firefox and send it as that name, so it's more understandable to the client.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kevin Cannon]

Attachment: Suggested UI for the change

This is a suggested UI for this feature request.

Shown here is the modified right-click menu you get when clicking on an attachment.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

that's already present in Thunderbird 3.0, which is in early alpha