User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030616 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030616 I often have occasiont to import text from an external text file into a message I'm composing. Attaching the file is no problem, but I do not like to (and sometimes cannot) send attachments -- they *MUST* be inline. A simple "import from file" (to cursor position) -- perhaps with some limit to *how much* text -- to behave as if file data were copied to clipboard and pasted to mail window (with the hazards that may cause for folks who don't distinguish between flat text and MS Word files) would be appreciated.... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

Is this asking for an automatic copy-paste from another program's document? If so, it seems like nearly as much effort to find the right document in a mozilla import dialog as to simply open that document and copy the contents to the clipboard, then paste into a mail message. Unless I misunderstand, I'm inclined to mark wontfix.

You could look at the request in the way you describe, but why force a user to move away from Mozilla to another application to open, copy the text, return to Mozilla to paste the text compared to (perhaps) Ctrl-Shift-I to Import from File, select the file and ta-da!? Really, if I had my druthers, what gets saved using the Save As dialog could be "reversed" to create a new message to be sent, but nobody seems interested in doing that, either....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16956 ***