491823 - Implement optional subject autocomplete

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Alexander Desyatnichenko (10)]

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It would be very kind of you if you added the autocomplete feature for the email message subject field. The subject entry control would have an eclipse (...) and the list of subjects used in the previous email messages would be exposed to the user for a quick selection when the eclipse is clicked.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

It seems to me a useless thing, but we ask the driver.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

In general this would indeed be pretty annoying. I guess there are special use cases, but for those I'd say use a template.

->WONTFIX

Comment 3

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Templates wouldn't be a solution because the user has to remind of the possible (existing) templates. Autocompletes advantage is the proposal of preexisting subjects the user doesn't remind of.

To prevent annoying users, this could be an optional feature (turned off by default?). Existing self created (or answered) subjects could be prioritized over other subjects.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Moving back to wontfix. Someone could make an extension if they really need it.