284367 - Easy way to move/copy emails

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

As it is now, if you want to move an email, you right click on the email,
selects "Move to...", then "Local Folders...", then the folder name.

I think moving emails should be done by pressing right mouse button and choose
"Move to this folder" on the folder that you want to move the email to.

This way you don't have to navigate through many submenus, and it can be done in
one/two click.

This would work nicely with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284365


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

On windows, I can right mouse button and pick move to ...something's weird with
your setup/window mgr/something, because thunderbird has these features.

Comment 2

[Martin]

When I right click on a folder I see these options:

Open in new mail window
Copy folder location
------------------------
Mark folder read
New subfolder
Rename folder
Compact this folder
Delete folder
------------------------
Search messages
Properties


In this menu would a "Move to this folder" be smart.

Do you really have such?

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

no, I have that menu choice when I right click on a bunch of messages in thread
pane, not when I click on a folder. Oh, I see what you want - personally, I
think that's a bit odd and non-standard, and I doubt we would do that, but I'll
leave it up to Scott

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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