251813 - unable to delete multiple message threads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88593

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Todd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: version 0.7.2 (20040707)

Hi All,

   I have a filter that diverts my group mailings.  I have these eMails
organized by thread.  Often times I need  to delete 20 to 50 messags at once.
If I click on the the thread symbol, I can delete the entire thred at once.

    Problem:  I can not use the CTRL key to select multiple threads.  Would you
consider adding this functionality?

Many thanks,
--Tony



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Luke Morey]

I have the same problem.  In a collapsed threaded view, I shift-highlight a
consecutive set of threads, just the first message in each thread gets deleted.

This is how it feels in a folder with a lot of threads.

  + thread one             has 5 messages
    thread two             has one message
  + thread three           has 2 messages
  + thread four            has 3 messages

Highlight all 4 threads, press delete.  Now you see

  + thread one
    thread three
  + thread four

Highlight all 3 threads, press delete.  Now you see

  + thread one
    thread four

Highlight 2 remaining threads, press delete.  Now you see

  + thread one

Multiply that process 20 times for a large folder with a lot of threads.

I'm just hoping this isn't a design decision...it's probably one of those
longstanding weird-ass open source UI debates, where someone has decided we
don't do the obvious thing and delete the whole thread at a time, because
[insert random reason here].

Comment 2

[Luke Morey]

Ah.  Is this a dupe of bug 235389?  Which may be a dupe of bug 65111 (although
that's for Mozilla Mail, not Thunderbird)?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Ctrl-click on the Thread icon *does* now select multiple threads, altho it can't 
be used to remove an entire thread from the selection.  You can Ctrl-click on 
individual messages to deselect them.

Comment 1 and 2 are about a different issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88593 ***