Closed Bug 445472 Opened 16 years ago Closed 13 years ago

delete/detach attachments from multiple selected messages

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 92146

People

(Reporter: junkkomatitsch, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080702 Fedora/2.0.0.15-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.15 Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.14 (20080501) "File / Attachments / Delete all" works fine when one message is selected but becomes inactive (light gray in the menu) when more than one message is selected. This is a pity, because quite often it would be useful to be able to extract or save or delete attachments in hundreds of messages at the same time; for instance when one wants to keep thousands of emails in his/her "Trash" folder but without the attachments in order to save disk space Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.select more than one message 2.try to use menu option "File / Attachments / Delete all" 3.you can't because it is inactive Actual Results: "File / Attachments / Delete all" works fine when one message is selected but becomes inactive (light gray in the menu) when more than one message is selected. This is a pity, because quite often it would be useful to be able to extract or save or delete attachments in hundreds of messages at the same time; for instance when one wants to keep thousands of emails in his/her "Trash" folder but without the attachments in order to save disk space
Confirming RFE.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: "File / Attachments / Delete all" inactive when more than one message is selected → delete/detach attachments from multiple selected messages
Depends on: 92146
This enhancement would really be welcome. When my mailbox becomes too big, what I often do is a search on messages which are old AND have big attachments. I then manually delete the attachments, which I have to do by hand. By the way, there is an extension which roughly does this : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/556 However, I don't think an extension should be needed only so that an action can be performed on a multiple selection instead on a single one...
This enhancement would really be welcome.
Depends on: 341263
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
No longer depends on: 92146
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