1962791 - View message source no longer works on multiple messages at once

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Kris Deugau]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

Select multiple messages. Hit Ctrl-U or (try to) click "View -> Message Source".

Actual results:

Nothing happens. The "Message source" entry in the View menu is disabled when multiple messages are selected.

Expected results:

The source of each selected message should display in a new window as it has done for a long time.

This is either a regression or a deliberate decision introduced in v128. I can sort of see a rationale for the latter but it breaks longstanding workflow to view message source for groups of similar messages for spam filter analysis. Poor workaround is to individually select a message and "View source", however this is slow and involves a lot of back and forth to the main window when more than two or three messages are involved.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

v102 used to allow that. In v115 and later it's not enabled.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: Bug 1962791 - Re-enable View Message Source for multi-selection. r=aleca

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/219ab75a4b55
Re-enable View Message Source for multi-selection.r=aleca