503064 - parking of messages - prevent deletion, purge, moving (both manual and automatic)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396311

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Eugene Savitsky]

I'd like a feature in Tb like 10+ years available in The Bat!. It's kind a "starred" feature already available, but the parked message cannot be moved and always stays below unread messages, so it is kinf of "todo".

http://email.about.com/cs/thebattips/qt/et032201.htm

Comment 1

[Eugene Savitsky]

http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/WINDOWS/large/TheBat!Professional_07large.png

here is a screenshot of it. The P column in messages area. The flag column is the same as Tb's star.

Comment 2

[Eugene Savitsky]

https://www.ritlabs.com/en/support/tips_and_tricks.php?ELEMENT_ID=3839

Here is a working URL of the feature discription.

Comment 3

[Eugene Savitsky]

Message parking is designed to prevent accidental deletion of valuable messages. When a message is parked, you will not be able to move it to another folder, nor will it be deleted or automatically purged. It is also impossible to delete a folder that contains one or more parked messages, or contains a sub-folder which contains a parked message.

To park a message, just select it in the message list, and click on the blue dot next to it. Once the message is parked the blue dot will turn into parking icon .

You can also park a message by right-clicking on it and selecting Park from the dropdown menu:

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think we should just use a special tag. I propose using ".parked" (dot to denote it's a system property, like unix)
This would not show up as a regular tag, and marking as read would need manual marking. Deleting/moving would be prohibited.

Comment 7

[Philipp Schlesinger]

This feature could also be used to prevent the sending of draft messages.