235315 - [rfe] need abilty to open .eml files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217149

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Sam Katz]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Currently, the suite and thunderbird lack file-->open within mail/news. This is
a logical place for it. specifically, since file-->open in the *browser* portion
of the suite does not have a radio button for mail/news. It's a polish issue and
an end-user issue--I never would have thought to attempt to import mail using
the open command in the browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

We don't need unnecessary UI duplication.  Unless we have something to open, no
need for the menu item.  We have an import menu item for importing.

Thunderbird is in large part a UI *cleanup*.

Besides, we have an "Open Message" already in that place.

This would create to much confusion.

Comment 2

[Sam Katz]

Perhaps I didn't make myself sufficiently clear.

Currently, file-->open a .msg file and it opens up in mail.

import does not have a facility for importing individual .msg files, so I filed
this bug realizing that we needed  a file-->open command specific to mail/news
to open .msg files outside the program.

If you want to change the summary to add this functionality to import, be my guest.

--Sam

Comment 3

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217149 ***

Comment 4

[Sam Katz]

I'm confused. Is this a dupe because the thunderbird functionality will
eventually be merged into mail/news? otherwise, this bug deals with mail/news,
the other bug with thunderbird.

Comment 5

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

This is a dup, because if it's going into only 1, it's going into thunderbird.

I expect it to go into mail&news, hence thunderbird since it uses the M&N backend.

We have a bug, with lots of useful comments to work off of.  So this bug, is a
dup of the original rfe.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sam Katz, also be aware of bug 11076 and bug 204350.

Comment 7

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I'm confused. Is this a dupe because the thunderbird functionality will
> eventually be merged into mail/news? 

See the new Bug 239555 for the port of the TB patch.