Bug 92439

Summary: wish for attach mail under Attach menu option
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: colesen
Component: keys and menusAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.7.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description colesen 2004-10-31 09:55:24 UTC 
Version:           1.7.1 (using KDE 3.3.1, SuSE)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.111-default

To attach an email you can drag the email from KMails mail list into the Composer window or you can use MB3-Forward-As Attachment.
Shouldn't the option to attach an email also exist under the main menu option Attach?
Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2005-07-02 01:19:40 UTC 
And how would you select the message you want to attach?
Comment 2 Nadav Kavalerchik 2006-05-17 11:28:26 UTC 
a new "attach email" menu entry should lead to a list of email's titles in the inbox folder to choose from (also, an ability to choose a different folder)

i'd love to see this feature coming up in the next versions of kmail :-)
Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2006-05-17 22:33:03 UTC 
So we'd have to show an Open File like dialog to select an email message? That doesn't sound like a particularly smart idea because the user would have to learn a second way for selecting a message in a folder (unless we put a complete main window into the Attach Message dialog).

If anything then I think it would be better to add an option "Attach to composed message" (needs better wording) to the Message menu. Then you'd select the messages you want to attach in the normal main window and invoke this new option. If only one composer window is open the messages would be attached immediately. Otherwise, you'd have to choose the correct composer window from the (short) list of open composers.
Comment 4 Nadav Kavalerchik 2006-05-18 09:32:44 UTC 
why not have a new kind of simple dialog for adding an attachment. with folders on the left and email titles on the right (for the selected folder). for selecting the email attachments.
and i think it should be invoked from the composer attach menu. so there is no confusion where to attach the emails to.
Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-20 15:26:00 UTC 
Come on. You can drag the mail as an attachment or forward the mail as an attachment. This third way sounds not very useable - it mainly copies what you can do in the kmail main window currently