282082 - Open all emails after download headers only

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Yossi]

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

If a user has selected to download headers only, he should then have an option
to download all of the emails simultaneously. This would give the user the
ability to read message headers, delete the ones he doesn't want and then
download the remainder of the messages simultaneously. Right now you have to
download each message seperately.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select download message headers only
2. Download mail
3. Now you must click each message to download the full text. 

Actual Results:  
As stated

Expected Results:  
You should be able to download multiple messages simultaneously.

Comment 1

[Giovanni]

I've the same problem: i always download headers only, then i delete unwanted
e-mail and at last i've to download each e-mail body seperately. It would be
very useful an option to download all e-mail bodies simultaneously.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

using multiple selection, you can select all the e-mails you want to download,
and do a file | offline | get selected messages

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 283943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 307847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Grendel]

(In reply to comment #2)
> using multiple selection, you can select all the e-mails you want to download,
> and do a file | offline | get selected messages

No, that's absolutely not a good idea. If it worked, it would be a nice
workaround (still not perfect since there are too many mouseclicks to the
desired intent), but my TB 1.0.6 downloaded the selected messages, but didn't
replace them with the already downloaded headers. Thus, I had duplicates all
over the place - and TB refused to work, stalled, so I had to restart it. I was
fortunately able to shift-select all duplicates and delete them all at once
(that worked ;-) ).

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > using multiple selection, you can select all the e-mails you want to
> > download, and do a file | offline | get selected messages
> 
> No, that's absolutely not a good idea. 

It's not only a good idea, it's the UI that is implemented, and probably the 
only one that is going to be implemented unless you step up to the plate and 
write a patch.

> my TB 1.0.6 downloaded the selected messages, but didn't
> replace them with the already downloaded headers. Thus, I had duplicates all
> over the place - and TB refused to work, stalled, so I had to restart it. 

That's clearly a problem; open a new, complete bug report, including steps to 
reproduce.

Comment 7

[David Balažic]

If possible, please add the "file | offline | get selected messages" function to a the pop up menu (when you right click on the selected messages in the list).

Comment 8

[Joachim Herb]

I created an addon which should do exactly this: All partially downloaded messages in the selected folder are downloaded from the server.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/13131

Comment 9

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I created an addon which should do exactly this: All partially downloaded
> messages in the selected folder are downloaded from the server.
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/13131

Great do you plan on supporting version 3.0 of thunderbird (a few things changed on the API level)

Comment 10

[Joachim Herb]

I updated the addon to work with Thunderbird 3.0 beta 3 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Thunderbird/3.0b3). The addon now supports the Thunderbird version 2.0.0.xxx and Thunderbird 3.0 starting from beta 3.

Comment 11

[Derek Stembridge]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from rafecquore1985.