Hello gf I no longer have this issue in 16.04. But instead of creating a file it create a .desktop file that points to the actual imap address for the email. This is fairly useless.
cat 'fetch>UID>.INBOX>51577.desktop' [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Henvisning til fetch>UID>.INBOX>51577 Type=Link URL=imap://some%40email%[email protected]:993/fetch%3EUID%3E.INBOX%3E51577 Icon=text-html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643536 Title: Can't drag and drop mails to desktop as file Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When i try to drag a mail to my desktop from the inbox, i get the following error message. (Translated from Danish) Error copying. An error ocured when gathering information about "fetch>UID>.INBOX.Sent>2897". - Show more details The specified location is not supported [Cancel] [Skip all] [Skip] [Try again] This error was observed with Thunderbird 3.0.8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/643536/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
