Implementation of unified localized "Fwd:" string (mailnews.localizedFwd) for better subject representation (thread/sort by subject)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.151 Safari/537.36
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TB has a value for mailnews.localizedRe for fixing reply suffixes in other languates (that might be AW: or SV: instead of Re:).
Hovever it misses the same feature for Fwd: (which could be WG:). See also this comment when mailnews.localizedRe was discussed and added:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29179#c40
Also you have to think about how to handle the combination of Re: and Fwd:
Some examples:
Original subject => optimum on reply => optimum on forward
Fwd: Fwd: WG: => Re: Fwd: => Fwd:
AW: AW: AW: AW: => Re: => Fwd: Re:
Fwd: WG: => Re: Fwd: => Fwd:
AW: WG: => Re: Fwd: => maybe Fwd: Re: Fwd:
So I guess it'll make sense to reduce the subject if two or more equivalents appear after each other.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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The intent of 'mailnews.localizedRe' is to remove all different language 'Re' from the subject and replace it with a single 'Re' or 'Fwd'.
In my opinion, it's not very desirable to keep the nesting of several 'Re'/'Fwd'. Further I think it makes more sense to remove all 'Fwd' as well.
This can be achieved quite easily by extending 'mailnews.localizedRe' accordingly.
For example:
mailnews.localizedRe: Fwd,FWD,fwd,AW,Aw,aw
But 'Re' and 'Fwd' are different things.
Also, Mozilla does fix this things on arrival of the message, not when you are replying. Your setting will cause that all 'Fwd'-Messages you got will end up as messages with 'Re'-Prefix in your inbox, which is wrong.
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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(In reply to Flex from comment #2)
Also, Mozilla does fix this things on arrival of the message, not when you are replying. Your setting will cause that all 'Fwd'-Messages you got will end up as messages with 'Re'-Prefix in your inbox, which is wrong.
That's true. I agree with you: in the display should be shown accordingly 'Fwd:' if this was the last action of the received email.
However, your examples referred to the new subject after forwarding. And there should IMHO always be only one 'Fwd:' and not 'Fwd: Re: Fwd:'
That'd be ok for me too, but that still means we need a mailnews.localizedFwd as we can't fix this with mailnews.localizedRe.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 5•5 years ago
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Not sure exactly what is proposed, but I don't think fwd should be dropped. Under normal circumstances, you only have one. If it's forwarded on... well then the multiple fwd provides that context.
I landed here when considering to submit the same, so I second this request. WG: should be replaced by Fwd:, and runs of multiple instances, such as WG: Fwd: WG: WG: should be replaced by a single Fwd:.
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