Open Bug 436183 Opened 16 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Allow arbitrary headers in the compose window

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Untriaged
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: psusi, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

The compose window only allows you to add To:, Cc:, Bcc:, Reply-To:, Newsgroup:, and Followup-to: headers when composing messages.  I would like to add other headers of my choosing, specifically, manually selecting the In-Reply-To: and References: headers.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Component: General → Untriaged
Since this is a special requirement, it is a little more complicated.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Custom_headers

1. Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General
2. click on [Edit configuration]
3. right-click on the list of settings, then New -> string
4. the property name is mail.compose.other.header
5. the value is In-Reply-To,References
Severity: normal → S3
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