282402 - Drag and Drop of a message in compose windows should attach the mail to the message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113435

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[murali dharan]

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

o click File->New->Message : this will open compose window
o Goto mail window
o drag a message from the list and drop it on the compose window
o The dropped message should be attached to the new message. 
o Currently this feature is not supported. Outlook supports it and it is very handy.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
o click File->New->Message : this will open compose window
o Goto mail window
o drag a message from the list and drop it on the compose window
o The dropped message should be attached to the new message. 
o Currently this feature is not supported. Outlook supports it and it is very handy.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

It should work if you dnd the message over the attachment panel in the composer
window (at least for Mailnews).

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

In TB, the attachment pane is not displayed until an attachment is actually seen 
-- but you can still drag the message (or a file) over the recipient headers, 
and the attachment panel will automagically display; you can drop it there.

For HTML compose, it is possible to drop a file (but not a message) into the 
compose body, but the results are not necessarily what you might expect.  For 
plain-text compose, the message body does not accept drops of any sort.  It's 
not clear which mode reporter is using, but I'm duping to the most likely 
candidate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113435 ***