Comment 7 for bug 237910

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Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe) wrote : Re: Thunderbird totally messed up handling of e-mail attachement

Ok - I loaded up a Hardy VM to test this - I set up my GMAIL account (via IMAP) in Thunderbird (which is now 2.0.0.18 in Hardy). I opened up a message with a file attached too it. There are two possibilities here:

I select the attachment with my mouse and click "Delete" on the tool bar (Red X with the word Delete under it). This deletes the message, not the attachment (I'm thinking by design - I don't think that "Delete" button was ever intended to delete attachments).

If I right-click on the attachment and choose delete, it will delete the attachment.

Is this similar to what you were experiencing? If so, I believe that is simply the way Thunderbird is designed and not a bug at all.

If I'm way off track, please let me know.
Jayson