User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040112 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040112 In Mozilla 1.6 Mail, if I open a message from the Sent mailbox on an IMAP server, click on an attachment, and then push the DEL key, the entire message is deleted without warning. This seems wrong in any case because I know no precedent for the DEL key being used to delete an object corresponding to the open window. Delete operations usually apply to a selection within a window. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a message that contains an attachment from the Sent folder on an IMAP server 2. Click on the attachment in the attachment windows. 3. Press the DEL key and watch the message vanish. Actual Results: The message is deleted and the window displays the next message. Expected Results: The expected behavior would be to do nothing, display a warning, or perhaps remove the attachment from the stored message (to save space) on the server. I note that mutt offers a precedent for the last option.

Deleting attachments doesn't work (yet) : bug 2920

The "expected behavior" listed is not the behavior expected by people who have been using the Standalone message window to manage their mail. I recommend marking this bug as Invalid.

One reason the behavior of deleting the message is surprising is that the attachment list uses a UI control that lets the user select an attachment by clicking on it. After selecting an attachment, it's weird that the delete action applies to the message as a whole (whereas "open" and "save as" apply to the attachment).

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It looks like someone still needs to make a decision about this.

I think you've got a point: the focus on the attachment could be seen as indicating that Delete will delete the attachment, rather than the message. (There's another bug somewhere where somebody selected text in the message body and hit Delete to remove the text from the message, and didn't like that the message got deleted instead.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315144 ***