I can confirm it's still here, with Thunderbird 17.0, Ubuntu 12.10. Happily you can still "...save as".
Having being reported on 2007-03-24 (see bug#95507), is probably going to be the oldest unfixed confirmed-and-easily-reproduced bug ever... ah no, evolution mailer has some bug older than this. *Sigh* -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381017 Title: Cannot drag attachment from mail attachment pane to desktop Status in SeaMonkey: all-in-one Internet application suite: Confirmed Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “gnome-common” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “kde-baseapps” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “seamonkey” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Ubuntu 9.04 Gnome Desktop 2.26.1 Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 This is regression introduced in Jaunty as it works in Intrepid. Dragging an attachment from the attachment pane to the desktop give the following error: == Error while copying There was an error getting information about "fetch>UID>.voicemail>1784". The specified location is not supported == Mail account is IMAP. This error was shown to seb128 and asac. The expected behavior is that the file is copied to the destination onto which it is dragged. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/seamonkey/+bug/381017/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
