324086 - Allow messages to be locked to prevent accidental deletion

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275168

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[eric gorr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I would like to be able to mark a message as 'locked' to prevent accidental deletion should the delete key be pressed and the trash emptied. A message marked as locked could only be moved into the trash if it was explicitly unlocked.

Why would I find this feature useful?

Well, I subscribe to many mailing lists and I have filters setup to move various
messages in my INBOX to the folder for each of the mailing lists.

Now, on occasion, I find a message that I would like to keep.

99.9% of the time, I can determine, just from looking at the subjects
that I am not interested in any of the new messages that have arrived.

When, in the same folder, I find that I want to delete all of the new messages
(there may be 40+) and save some of the old ones, I tend to select all and then
unselect those I want to save and then I press the delete.

When the number messages I want to save in a folder grows large enough, I tend to create a new folder called <mailinglist>-save.

Now, this whole process could be made far, far easier for me if I could just
lock the messages I want to save. In which case, I can do a
select all and press delete without removing the messages. I would no longer
have the need for two folders for nearly every mailing list I subscribe to. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[eric gorr]

dang...I forgot I already entered this. Sorry.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275168 ***