274029 - Put "Get Selected" and "Get Flagged" items on message context menu

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[kremik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

It is one thing that i miss in TB. If I download only messages headers and then
I want to download the whole message from the mailserver I have to open the
message and click on link in it. It would be very nice to have this option in
the context menu and to be able to retrieve this way the section of selected
messages. The same thing should be done with Deleting messages from the
mailserver only. This was prerfectly done in Calypso e-mail client.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The feature exists, but not on the TB context menu.  You can select or flag the 
messages you want to download, then select File|Offline|Get Selected (or Get  
Flagged).

In Mozilla, the Get Selected and Get Flagged items *do* exist in the context 
menu, but their existence there highlights how overloaded the context menu is.

Since the context menu is smaller when multiple messages are selected, I guess I 
would put Get Selected Messages on the multi-selection context menu; but not on 
the single-selection menu (since, if only one message is selected, you can click 
the link in the preview pane to fetch it).  Get Flagged is more of a problem; 
ideally, I'd say this would best be done using "Select flagged messages" 
(bug 72823) plus Get Selected.

"Delete from mailserver" is not an action that's specifically available at this 
time; just deleting the message is supposed to be sufficient to delete it from 
the server as well (after the next check for new mail).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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