612526 - dragging a message from a thunderbird folder to a mail compose window does not work, unless you drag it all the way to the top, above the subject line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113435

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[ebaynegs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6

dragging a message from a thunderbird folder to a mail compose window does not work, when you drop the message below the subject line, nothing happens, and no error message is produced, (either via dialog box or error console), the only way to get it to work is if you drag it all the way to the top, above the subject line.

to me this is not very user friendly, and certainly not intuitive, you should be able to drop the message anywhere on the compose window and it should automatically get attached to the message in the compose window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a new mail compose window
2. open a mail folder in thunderbird
3. select any message in the folder
4. drag the message to the mail compose window (anywhere below the Subject field) 

Actual Results:  
5. nothing happens (message is not attached)

Expected Results:  
5. message should be attached

the current method of having to drag the message to an unmarked, yet speficic area of the compose window is non intuitive, and confusing IMHO.