390558 - Can't copy full header. Sometimes necessary to forward header to check who sent eMail.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[c300331]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.12 (20070509)

Trying to copy header from message to forward to security service but can't. Only highlights one line of the full header! Sometimes you can't forward entire message - this is one - and you need to be able to copy the header.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open
2. read
3. try to copy header
Actual Results:  
okay
okay
can't

Expected Results:  
open
read
copy

Comment 1

[Ronald Killmer]

Bug status should be resolved as invalid. 

Reporter should have used View > Source to copy header text to clipboard or have toggled header view to all and used the twisty to expand the header pane. 

A case of user error

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->INVALID. You as you can get it from view source if you need it. 

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

As you can get it... 

Comment 4

[Matt Morgan]

It's been 14 years. Do people still think making users go to View Source to copy the emails in a message is the best way to do this?

I'm here because I did this:

1. Tried to copy emails on the to: line to send a new message to the same list of people. Failed.
2. Went to View>Headers>All to try to turn it into text. Still failed to copy it.
3. Saved message to .eml, opened it in gedit, copied emails. Yay.

In other words, it would have been easier just to copy the emails like I would expect to be able to do. View Source to copy is arcane. Worth fixing now?

Thanks,
Matt