397264 - Mailbox view that shows when attachments have been deleted/removed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 305485

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Debbie Chippington Derrick]

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Currently attachments in the mailbox view are shown as being present even if they have been deleted. Ideally the mailbox view would show an attachment icon with a cross though it, similar to how a deleted attachment is shown when the mail is opened.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

I agree that it would be nice to remove the attachment icon from the TOC. My suspicion is that since we leave a 'stub' behind in the message, the code that updates the TOC still thinks there is an attachment. This is what gets left behind in the message after an attachment is deleted:


-------------060405070804090906060005
Content-Type: text/x-moz-deleted; name="Deleted: sample.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Deleted:sample.txt"
X-Mozilla-Altered: AttachmentDeleted; date="Mon Sep 24 10:12:41 2007"

The original MIME headers for this attachment are:
Content-Type: text/plain;
 name="sample.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
 filename="sample.txt"


--------------060405070804090906060005--



Matt

Comment 2

[Debbie Chippington Derrick]

I was not suggesting that the attachment icon was just removed, but that it was replaced by a different icon which indicates a removed/deleted attachment. Would the stub that is left allow the triggering of a different icon in the attachment column.

(In reply to comment #1)
> I agree that it would be nice to remove the attachment icon from the TOC. My
> suspicion is that since we leave a 'stub' behind in the message, the code that
> updates the TOC still thinks there is an attachment. This is what gets left
> behind in the message after an attachment is deleted:
> 
> Matt

Comment 3

[Fab]

I agree with Debbie's comment, the functionality in Eudora worked like this:
- you could always see the small envelope in the message list telling you that there is (or there had been) an attach to the message
- when you opened that message the icons where telling you immediately if the attachment was still present in the attach directory. If it was not the icons were crossed.

Like it is now you always have to try to "detach" the attachments before getting an error.

I like to detach all the attachments in order to have lighter mail files that contain only the test of my mails, that is why I liked Eudora so much. Now it is very difficult to understand if you have already done the job or not.

Thanks

Fab

Comment 4

[Matt Dudziak]

Assigning to Thunderbird as this is not unique to Penelope. Keeping link by adding '[penelope_wants]' to Whiteboard.