[TechAssist] Re: Mozilla and Thunderbird Vs natscape: Copying/moving emails from within the search window]
- From: Jim Myers <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:22:26 -0500
When I select a group of messages in Thunderbird, or a single message,
then right click, I get options to "copy to" or to "move to" among other
options. But the search is not under TOOLS it is right above the list of
messages labeled "Subject or Sender contains.
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Jim Myers *
Telrad Electronics *
Fort Wayne Indiana *
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Phil Bader wrote:
>
>
> A feature that's sorely lacking with Mozilla and thunderbird email is in
> the email area,when you select Tools, then Search Messages.
> Then a search window appears, like netscape. Type, say," Fixes" and it
> searches "fixes" within the inbox,if selected.
> Now there is a list of, say 25 emails found. I already have made a
> folder titled "FIXES" where I want to COPY these search results to. Note
> I say COPY. Not drag, or MOVE.
> Highlight the first email in the window, then holding the shift key,the
> last, selecting all.
> Here's where the difference is:
> Now, I have 25 highlighted. In netscape, I would right click the window
> and a menu of options would appear where I could select "Copy to..." or
> "move to..." "fixes" folder. The right click is inactive with
> Mozilla/Thunderbird here. You must drag those over to the folder and
> they are no longer also in their original place. You don't always want
> to MOVE a search result, maybe just COPY them somewhere. When
> organising hunreds of forum emails, this is a pain. Why cannot the
> whizzes who design it write a line of code to do this?
> Sorry for long post, didn't know how else to explain it.
> Phil Bader
>
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