361421 - Dropping a file or a folder upon TB's icon in the dock don't create a new email

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[stuff1414]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 2 beta 1 (20061121) PPC

When dragging and dropping a file on Thunderbird's icon in Mac OSX's dock, nothing happends. It would be a very useful feature to create automaticaly a new mail with the file attached this way (instead of having to first create a new message).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select one or more files
2.drag them on thunderbird's icon
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Create a new email with the dropped files attached.

Theme : Thunderbird standard
Configuration : iBook G4 1Ghz, 1Gb RAM, Mac OS 10.4.5

Comment 1

[Hiro]

Confirm.
(In Mail.app, this is possible.)

Mac OS X 10.3.9
version 2 beta 1 (20061123)

Comment 2

[Marc46]

Yes please ! It's so useful :)

It's also possible in MS Entourage.

Comment 4

[stuff1414]

Same on macbook intel with thunderbird's latest build.

It's a must-have for TB 3.0

Comment 6

[Morten Norby Larsen]

This would be so useful!

Comment 7

[Sophie Herold]

Beside the Adressbook integration this is the only thing that differs from Mail.app. Would be very nice to see this in a feature release!

Comment 8

[zodiac1978]

It would be a great benefit if this feature could be implemented.

Or could this feature be solved with a droplet which launches Thunderbird?

Comment 9

[Paul J. Lucas]

1. It ought to work even if Thunderbird is already running.
2. It ought to work for **Thunderbird's** icon that's in the dock (not a droplet's).

Comment 10

[zodiac1978]

And if you drop text on the icon (for example a URL from Firefox) it should open a compose message window with the "dropped" text in the body.

Comment 12

[andy]

i just cant believe this .. this bug really is actually SEVEN years old?!!!!!!!!!

For everybody that still is affected by this bug - here is a lil workaround:
Drop the file on the dock icon while pressing alt+cmd

This will open the desired new mail windows with the files attached!
YAY

AND I VOTE FOR FINALLY FIXING THIS DAMN BUG!!!!!!! ;)

Comment 13

[Matt B]

The Option+Command workaround doesn't always work. So I vote for this to be fixed ASAP.