[TechAssist] Re: Mozilla and Thunderbird Vs natscape: Copying/moving emails from within the search window]

  • From: Gary McCartney <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:56:43 -0500

Phil, I missed the part about "during a search messages" Anyways, I just 
tried it in Mozilla mail and no, you cannot right-click on the hilighted 
messages, but while the messages are hilighted, you can click on the 
button "FILE" at the bottom of the search box and there you will have 
the choice of what mail folder to dump the messages into.






Gary McCartney

McCartney Electronics
Guelph Ontario Canada
Est. 1984
email: gary (at) number63.ca








Phil Bader wrote:
> You didn't say /where/ you selected the group of messages...I think we 
> are on "different pages" here.
> I am on Mozilla 1.7 here. I have my list of mail folders at the right 
> side of the screen. (inbox, sent, fixes, research, etc)
> In my email, at the top, I go to /Tools/ and click. This drops down a 
> menu and the first option is "/search messages/". others are below that. 
> Click /search messages/ and a window appears that at top says  "/search 
> for messages in:/ " and I can select, say, "inbox". I now have a blank 
> line I type "fix".
> This searches all refs to "fix" in the subject line of my inbox. The 
> resulting list of twenty or so appears. now I can click the first, 
> shift+click the last whick blacks them all (I wanted to select all) now, 
> if I right click the mouse OVER the highlighted search results, right 
> click does not work. It DOES work other places  in mozilla inbox and 
> elsewhere. thats what I'm saying.
> phil
> 
> Jim Myers wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
>>
>>********************************
>>Since 1972                     *
>>Jim Myers                      *
>>Telrad Electronics             *
>>Fort Wayne Indiana             *
>>********************************
>>
>>
>>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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