445472 - delete/detach attachments from multiple selected messages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 92146

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Dimi Ko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080702 Fedora/2.0.0.15-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.15
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.14 (20080501)

"File / Attachments / Delete all" works fine when one message is selected
but becomes inactive (light gray in the menu) when more than one message is selected. This is a pity, because quite often it would be useful to be able to extract or save or delete attachments in hundreds of messages at the same time;
for instance when one wants to keep thousands of emails in his/her "Trash" folder
but without the attachments in order to save disk space

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.select more than one message
2.try to use menu option "File / Attachments / Delete all"
3.you can't because it is inactive
Actual Results:  
"File / Attachments / Delete all" works fine when one message is selected
but becomes inactive (light gray in the menu) when more than one message is selected. This is a pity, because quite often it would be useful to be able to extract or save or delete attachments in hundreds of messages at the same time;
for instance when one wants to keep thousands of emails in his/her "Trash" folder but without the attachments in order to save disk space

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE.

Comment 3

[Pascal Sartoretti]

This enhancement would really be welcome. When my mailbox becomes too big, what I often do is a search on messages which are old AND have big attachments. I then manually delete the attachments, which I have to do by hand.

By the way, there is an extension which roughly does this :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/556

However, I don't think an extension should be needed only so that an action can be performed on a multiple selection instead on a single one...

Comment 4

[Arvy]

This enhancement would really be welcome.