453490 - Menu items Detach All and Delete ALL (attachments) disabled for signed emails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 288700

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

SM Trunk Gecko/20080816002821
I'm filing this against SM, because it might be a front-end problem 
peculiar to SM, but it might also be a mailnews backend problem.

The "Detach all" and "Delete All" menu items for email attachments 
are always disabled (gray), both in the context menu for the list
of attachments in the message header page, and in the 
Message->Attachments menu (from the menu bar).  This makes it difficult
to delete large numbers of attachments on emails.

This is a regression.  Perhaps there's no regression test for this feature?

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Today, I went back to the email that had this problem (could not detach
attachments) and I happened to click in the header pane to the left of 
the attachment list box.  When I did so, an interesting thing happened.
The icon for a signed email appeared there, where it had not been before.
I do not know why that icon did not appear until I clicked there, but 
that's what happened.  

So, then I searched for bugs about detachment from signed emails, and 
found bug 288700 comment 18, in which it is reported that detachment 
from signed emails is now disabled on the trunk.  

So, now I know the cause of this bug.  And this bug is a complaint that
it is no longer possible to detach attachments from signed emails. :(

Comment 2

[John Vivirito]

This happens in Thunderbird as well here is the Ubuntu bug link:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/303140

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

John: this is not a thunderbird bug (but a seamonkey one). For thunderbird see bug 288700. (And i think this should probably be duped too. The UI part is really such a tiny part of the work needed.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping as suggested by magnus.
it seems to me bug 288700 should be nominated wanted-tb3, no?