278626 - Send Directory of Files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 280837

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

TB would have another competitive advantage and improve the user's experience if
it were quicker to send and receive a directory of files via email.  I do this
almost daily at work.

This feature would make it unnecessary to go out to the OS, zip up all the
files, send the zip file, and then delete the zip file.  It would also make it
unnecessary to save the attachment, go out to the OS, unzip all the files into a
directory, and delete the zip file.

Since the zip format is pervasive these days, any recipient can still use the
attachment the longer, more annoying way.

A further enhancement could check the size and warn the user when the attached
directory would make the email too large for some email systems.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[6e77a 70 6e 6e7a]

Can't someone at least evaluate this feature request?

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 280837?