107073 - [RFE] All user to display both sender and recipient columns in mail list pane

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36492

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Swan]

Allow the user to be able to select between Sender, Recipient, or both column
displays in the message list pane.

This would perhaps help on bug 92774 , bug 98866 , and bug 101162.  I have
sometimes mixed sent and received mail in the same "mailbox." I would like to
see if I sent a message or not, and if I sent a I message I'd like to see who it
was to and not that I was the sender as would be the case as it is.

Both columns being selectable would definitely make this easy without having to
detect if this was a Sent mail folder or a former sent mail folder, and would
also allow for cases such as mixed sent and received messages.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Another way to solve this problem: bug 36489, create a "to/from" column that 
shows the 'to' field if you're the sender.

Comment 2

[David Tenser [:djst]]

This would also fix bug 107073 and bug 114533. 

There's no point why both columns shouldn't be available from the drop-down list
of columns of all mail folders. Of course, the default would be to display
"Recipient" on Send folders and "Sender" on other folders.

Comment 3

[Brent Harsh]

I would like to see this feature done; but keep this in mind as a possibility: 

I manage my e-mail by month, so in the end sent and rx mails *ALWAYS* wind up in
the same archived folder (how can anyone do otherwise, that would separate the
threads!?.  I requested a feature for our custom text-based mail reader at work
quite a few years ago: basically, if the from: address was equal to *my*
address, the display "to: recipient" in the "to/from" column.   The "outbox"
remained set to an outgoing mailbox and always showed "To: recipient" and vice
versa for the inbox, but all other boxes keyed on the account owners e-mail to
choose which address to display.  This feature could be turned on/off by a user
preference.  I was *very* pleased by this behavior.

Comment 4

[David Tenser [:djst]]

*** Bug 168796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Glen Harris]

This ability has been requested by several of the users I support, as a means of
project management. Keeping all the emails for a project in a single folder
makes it extremely easy to track back through it's history, but only if both the
sender and recipient fields are able to be displayed.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

I think this can be made a dupe of bug 36492 : that one proposes optional to and
From columns, but keeps the combined To/From column, so users can pick their own
preferred header.

Comment 7

[Thomas Swan]

Not really.  This RFE is to allow you to choose any combination of the columns
for display, not just one or the other or an interpreted column.   To me that's
even easier and more versatile than bug 36492, and it offers any type of view on
any folder special or otherwise: Sent, Trash, etc.

Comment 8

[Russel]

I, too, would like to have this function (please note I did not say feature
<grin>) added.

Russel

Comment 9

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 180298 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Aleksey Nogin]

I agree with comment #6 - it is a dup. The ability to choose which of the
available columns to display and which to keep hidden is always there. The only
thing that's missing is having the "Sender" and "Recepient" columns available,
which is exactly what the bug 36492 asks for.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36492 ***

Comment 11

[laurel]

marking verified