367511 - Messages cannot be moved or copied into Unsent under Local folders.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[[:Aleksej]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070116)

You can move a message into any folder but the "Unsent" folder that is under Local folders.
The only way to put an existing message into Unsent is to have it there at the first place, and then move it away and press "Undo" (Ctrl-Z).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a message in any of the folders, except for Unsent.
2. Hover over the message in the message list and click and hold the left (1st) mouse button.
3. Drag it to the Unsent folder in the folders pane.
Any folder you drag it over would be highlighted, and if you release the button, the message will move there, but
Actual Results:  
When you drag it over Unsent, Unsent is not highlighted, and if you release the button, the message is left where it is, not moved into Unsent.

Expected Results:  
Unsent should be highlighted, and the message should be moved there, like with other folders.

Temporary workaround: Edit as New, Send Later, remove the original. Not too easy.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Cannot Copy, either (Unsent is not in the list).

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is intentional because Unsent requires messages to be in a particular format (certain specific headers) in order to send them.