158522 - View message source of mail without activating mail

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Matzon]

Sometimes when I get suspicious mail, I like to view the source of it, without
activating it in my preview pane. In outlook express I would right click it, and
choose properties (and from there select message source). I have no way (AFAIK)
to do this.
Currently I have to left click on the mail, to activate it, and then select view
Message Source (or CTRL+U).

Comment 1

[Brian Matzon]

-> Enhancement
sorry for spam

Comment 2

[Wesha]

Agreed, it's a good security measure.

Unable to find a dupe

==> NEW

Platform/OS -> all/all

Comment 3

[Matthew Elvey]

Click on the middle of the bar in the preview pane to close it, then select the
email and view source.  
Also, see the cool mailnews.display.html_sanitizer.allowed_tags preference!
(Admin: Should we not mark this bug as resolved so searchers will find it?  Or
is that bad form?)

Comment 4

[Brian Matzon]

So, you want to close and reopen the preview pane each time someone wants to
view the source for a spam mail? Doens't sound very userfriendly...

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

v wfm

Comment 6

[Brian Matzon]

yes, ofcourse it works - and so does restarting mozilla each time it **** up,
but thats hardly the best way to resolve a bug?

btw, what middle pane am I supposed to click in thunderbird??