704189 - Mail's eMail attachment cannot be moved to folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

My server's antiSpam flag as Spam the offending emails and put it as an "attached .eml"
As it often make mistake it was easy to take the attachment and put it  directly into the inbox.

With this silly version:
I cant anymore interact with the attached email

cannot move it to any folder



Expected results:

Direct interacton with attached emails

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Are you saying that you used to be able to do this before? "With this silly version" vaguely implies that, but it's extremely unclear.

I think squib landed a fix recently to allow you to copy attached e-mails into a folder, but that's only in nightly builds, and won't ship for 10-14 weeks or so (I don't remember when it landed).

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

GOTCHA ! ! !

Sorry for Bugging you ...
It was the Conversation extension that messed up all my TB !!!

1) lost the headers in the preview pane
2) lost the ability to manage the attachments
3) had hidden some important messages putting them UNDER the originator 

TRASHED IT !

Now I hope I will have the plain and usual safe TB!!

AlainCh ( Thanks !

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Yes I'm able to do it (again).

At the bottom of the preview's pane there is a bar with all the attachments.

Just click and move the attachment to a mail-folder .. it work ! ( if it's an .eml)

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Wrong!
I cannot do it anymore.

There was TWO way to do it
1) click and drag
2) Open it then "move to folder"

Both way are not working anymore

:-(

Comment 5

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

(In reply to David :Bienvenu from comment #1)
> Are you saying that you used to be able to do this before? "With this silly
> version" vaguely implies that, but it's extremely unclear.

I really doubt this ever worked, unless I'm misunderstanding what comment 0 is about, since we have a 5-digit bug open on this issue: bug 11013. (Also, we don't have anything in the backend to support this[1]; we can only copy messages in mail-folders and .eml's on the filesystem.)

> I think squib landed a fix recently to allow you to copy attached e-mails
> into a folder, but that's only in nightly builds, and won't ship for 10-14
> weeks or so (I don't remember when it landed).

That was just for .eml's on the filesystem. I specifically excluded attached messages since we're missing the aforementioned backend function. I'd like to remedy that soon-ish, though.

[1] http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/public/nsIMsgCopyService.idl

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

I'm wondering if the reporter has an extension installed that does this, or if by folder, he means file system folder, and not mail folder, and he's using save as.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Mail-folders

Sorry if I generate some confusion on that.

It's now more or less 3 years i'm using TB  and being Aruba'spam system dealing with SPAM the same way.. for at leat 5 years :-)

.. I get an Email saying on the Object ***SPAM***
I filter it to a folder.
I check every day the Spam Folder and do look in the preview without opening the attachments for SPAM mistakes.

When I found the attached email correct I just dragged it ...
If not sure just opened it and ( >messages>move to folder> )

I'm just surprized that that's not working anymore.
Becomming older means I'm loosing contact with things and often I forget... but 3 years is a long times  and many emails recovered from attachment !

Comment 8

[Emmanuel Bourg]

I have the same issue with Thunderbird 8, I can no longer import attached messages into the current folder. I frequently use this feature to unwrap forwarded mail.

I found out that this feature is actually provided by the ImportExportTools extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools

That would be great if it was possible to drag an attached message directly into a folder without using an extension.

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

OOOH  ! ! !

That's Great. It's the response to the mystery attachment.

I had the ImP/Exp toll add-on installed ...and I have uninstalled it !

That's the reason I'm not able anymore to move Email's email attachment directly to a folder !!

Thanks Emanuel for sharing it !