100261 - Enhancement: Use of Outlook-like mail properties like Confidential etc.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 353800

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[oskar]

The idea is to support the outlook mail properties, such as personal, private,
confidential; they are usable (in Outlook) like Important, Very Important etc.

As far as I know, these properties are 'proprietary' and they are named with
'X-...'.

I could see no problem to support it, because mail clients, which don't know the
property, are - as far as I know from similar protocols - told to ignore it.

The other side of this is the processing of incoming mails, but perhaps this is
solvable through simple displaying the property; an additional process support
like prohibited printing etc. is not needed - and perhaps outside the focus of
Mozilla.


Kind regards,

Daniel

Comment 1

[Martin Sch]

There is a (limited) way to use additional headers:
Put
  user_pref("mail.compose.other.header", "X-someheader");
into your user.js.
Then you can select and fill this header in the message composition window.

Comment 2

[matt haines]

i'd like to put a vote for having these set in the prefs, or at least as a file so that the X- headers are 
automatically added. PowerMail and Outlook Express (at least the mac version) both have this 
option.

Comment 3

[chrizilla]

This seems to be a duplicate of bug 353800.
Bug 100261 is the older one of the two but suggests using X-headers, whereas bug 353800's implementation approach is the correct one (proposes to use the dedicated sensitivity header field), so maybe keep the latter and mark the older one as duplicate exceptionally ?

@Wayne Mery: Is it ok to ping you in cases like this (verification of uncertain duplicates) ?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for helping. OK to ping me.
x-headers are on their way out anyway AIUI, so I agree with your assessment.

Comment 5

[chrizilla]

@Wayne Mery: Thanks for your supervision. Please tell me if it is solicited too often.