User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 The File/Attachments menu should be activated as soon as one of the mails selected has an attachment. This works correctly for a single mail, not for multiple mails. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Situation now : - select one mail with an attachment : menu is enabled - select a mail without an attachment : menu is disabled - select two mails, both having an attachment : menu is disabled (should be ENABLED) - select two mails, one having an attachment, the other not : menu is disabled (should be ENABLED)

This would be difficult, as the File|Attachments menu is initialized from the list of attachments that are shown in the displayed message. (Note that if you have the message pane hidden, the File|Attachments menu in the 3pane is also hidden.)

A decision should be taken on this bug. If we're able to initialize the attachments in attachments pane (and then initialize the file > attachments menu from there, as Mike says), then we should also be able to initialize the attachments of any selected msg. The resulting UI of this RFE would be straightforward: In File > Attachments user sees a list of all attachments of all selected msgs, at the top of which commands like "Save all", "Detach all" etc. That sounds like a useful idea to expand on the existing capabilities of the UI. Maybe there is other ways of doing the UI in case of multiple selection. What it actually takes to realize this, and if we'll ever have the time to do this, is a different question. For now, the question is: Would we accept some variant of this UI idea if someone implemented it? I'd say yes. Recommendation: -> NEW

BTW, we have related / similar bugs asking the same, e.g. Bug 92146 - Save all attachments in all selected messages (from 2001!) Bug 445472 - delete/detach attachments from multiple selected messages Bug 421105 - Implement attachment manager, which shows all attachments in selected folders and allows to operate (delete, save, exclude) on them

Actually, looking at long list of duplicates of bug 92146 and others as in comment 3, this bug will really be needed as a first step towards handling multiple attachments of multiple selected messages: At least we'll have to enable the File > attachments menu. What exactly we'd want inside the menu can be decided lateron.

Marking as duplicate of bug 92146, since a fix for that would naturally encompass this bug as well.

Thanks Jim for clearing up!