Bug 272997 Comment 5 Edit History

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Original comment by
on 
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)
> Does this make sense?

Well, sort of.
With pref `mailnews.headers.showUserAgent`=true, we'll show an extra header labeled `User agent` with normal headers view (still useful and working well in TB 102.2.0 (64-bit)).
If there's a `User-Agent` (typically from Thunderbird), that will be shown.
If there's any of `x-mailer`, `x-mimeole`, or `x-newsreader`, those, too, will be shown with the label `User agent` ([via this code](https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/0de835acdd39fbe8c383c74cef0c524e71e41d81/mail/base/content/msgHdrView.js#568-572)), which is somewhat incorrect/misleading (this bug).  Very minor issue. Showing the actual header labels would be good, but may be a bit hard to implement.

Reporter proposes using neutral label like `Sent with` instead of `User agent` to cover `user-agent`, `x-mailer` etc. - what do you think?
Revision 1 by
on 
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)
> Does this make sense?

Well, sort of.
With pref `mailnews.headers.showUserAgent`=true, we'll show an extra header labeled `User agent` with normal headers view (still useful and working well in TB 102.2.0 (64-bit)).
If there's a `User-Agent` header (typically from Thunderbird), that will be shown.
If there's any of `x-mailer`, `x-mimeole`, or `x-newsreader`, those, too, will be shown with the label `User agent` ([via this code](https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/0de835acdd39fbe8c383c74cef0c524e71e41d81/mail/base/content/msgHdrView.js#568-572)), which is somewhat incorrect/misleading (this bug).  Very minor issue. Showing the actual header labels would be good, but may be a bit hard to implement.

Reporter proposes using neutral label like `Sent with` instead of `User agent` to cover `user-agent`, `x-mailer` etc. - what do you think?
Revision 2 by
on 
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)
> Does this make sense?

Well, sort of.
With pref `mailnews.headers.showUserAgent`=true, we'll show an extra header labeled `User agent` with normal headers view (still useful and working well in TB 102.2.0 (64-bit)).
If there's a `User-Agent` header (typically from Thunderbird), that will be shown.
If there's any of `x-mailer`, `x-mimeole`, or `x-newsreader`, those, too, will be shown with the label `User agent` ([via this code](https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/0de835acdd39fbe8c383c74cef0c524e71e41d81/mail/base/content/msgHdrView.js#568-572)), which is somewhat incorrect/misleading (this bug).  Very minor issue. Showing the actual header names in the label would be good, but may be a bit hard to implement.

Reporter proposes using neutral label like `Sent with` instead of `User agent` to cover `user-agent`, `x-mailer` etc. - what do you think?

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