Closed Bug 179862 Opened 22 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Cannot quickly delete multiple messages without showing any of them

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: neo-8ba, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111 Often, mails sent by spammers contain evil features like remotes pictures on the spammer site that are triggered every time you look at the mail, with special formated links that report to the spammer that you have read the mail (and so that your email is valid). There should be a way to select a message (to delete it, or do other things with it), without showing it. Some ideas: - add a special column for selection (some cases ?). The problem is that new users could be disturbed by such a feature ("what ! I clicked on my mail but it didn't showed !") - make it work with a special keyboard sequence like "press alt + arrows to move the highlight without showing the emails, and press spacebar to select the message" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Not applicable 2. 3.
Hi, Please do not place ideas on the on the mozilla suorce on the bugzilla.mozilla.org pages this is a place for bugs and bugs only. And that might be possible we will have to redo the mail/news source to make that happen. I might work on that.
1) Right click on the mail 2) Select "delete" from the context menu In what way is this not satisfactory? ;)
or Edit\preferences\Privacy...\Images\[x]Do not load remote images in mail and news or View\Message Body as\Plain Text and after that delete the message. since there is also Boris way -> invalid (since you can already do it)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
About comment 2 from boris: this is not satisfactory: yes you can select a mail and delete it with right click. But let's say you have 10 mails you want to delete: how do you do that ? You must delete each mail with the right click method. This is pretty long. You can say that it's possible to shift+click to select the ten mail in the same sequence, but for that you have to select (and show!) at least one mail for the beginnig of your selection. About comment 3 from Matti: with the first method you can not see anymore remotes images from all your mail! That is not satisfactory: there are mails from online vendors that are not spam (i have sollicited them) and that i want to be able to read. With the second method, it's the same problem as with boris's method: it will take you many time to delete your ten mails (or more, i get something like 30 spams a day). About comment 1 from Bryan: i am not sure to understand what you are talking about (englisch is not my native language). Are you saying that enhancement suggetions are not welcome on bugzilla anymore ?
Vincent, please ignore comment 1. It has nothing to do with reality. Thank you for answering the "how is this not satisfactory" part. ;) Reopening, setting summary to desribe the real problem.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Summary: Add a select a mail without showing feature → Cannot quickly delete multiple messages without showing any of them
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: olgam → laurel
This should probably be changed to an RFE. I believe that this is a valuable idea. I am having problems with certain emails always crashing Mozilla (I have already entered a bug on this) and after the first time the message crashed me it sure would have been nice to delete it without having to "open" it. Thanks.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: laurel → message-display
MASS-CHANGE: This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state. If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way. If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar). If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state. Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614
Status: NEW → UNCONFIRMED
MASS-CHANGE: This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state. If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way. If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar). If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state. Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614
MASS-CHANGE: This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state. If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way. If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar). If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state. Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614
MASS-CHANGE: This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago. Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED. If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component. Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago15 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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