19094 - Two suggestions for Messenger (inspired by Pine)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18619

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Harpaul]

Hello!
 I have a couple of sugestions I've been wanting to make for a long time for
Netscape Messenger: I've been using it even since you got good IMAP features,
and I love it It works great! (I have 90 folders on the server, and I can access
all through Messenger and access them anywhere through Pine or changing netscape
preferences elsewhere). I would use Messenger all the time, except there are
some very useful features of Pine that Messenger lacks. Two of them I'll
mention here, and the last is something that needs to be addressed trough my
server (I'll include it anyways).


1.
When looking at mesages in a folder, Pine will show the recipient (after "To:")
for messages you sent and the sender for messages you received. (If you send a
mesage to yourself, it'll display the recipient.)
 One thing that is annoying in using Messenger is that many of my folders have
messages both from me and to me, and when using Messenger, the ones from me
(except in my sent-mail folder) say from me rather than to whoever I sent it to.
This is even true for my postponed-messages folder.
 Pine, however, does as I said above: here's an example, from one of my folders:

 + A 151 May 14 Paul A. Gusmorino 3rd           (751) Re: Mike's Levenson!
    152 May 14 To: Paul A. Gusmorino 3rd       (571) Re: Mike's Levenson!
    153 May 14 To: Kathy                     (2,031) Re: Photo presentation and
hippo book
    154 May 14 To: Paul A. Gusmorino 3rd       (413) Re: book
+ A 155 May 14 Kathy                         (2,849) Re: Photo presentation and
hippo book
    156 May 14 To: Kathy                     (2,870) Re: Photo presentation and
hippo book
+   157 May 14 Kathy                         (3,360) Re: Photo presentation and
hippo book
    158 May 14 To: Aaron R Bronfman          (1,522) Photo presentation (fwd)
    159 May 14 To: Kathy                       (550) Re: Photo presentation and
hippo book
    160 May 15 To: Michael A Hill              (562) mt
    161 May 16 Michael Nakamaye              (1,306) test
    162 May 17 To: Mike                        (670) question about exam
    163 May 17 Math 25b!                     (1,229) problem 3 on the exam
    164 May 18 Michael Nakamaye              (1,012) office hours
  A 165 May 19 Michael Nakamaye                (993) dinner
    166 May 19 To: Michael Nakamaye          (1,214) Re: dinner
    167 May 20 Michael Nakamaye              (1,604) water gun fight
    168 May 22 Michael Nakamaye              (1,469) dinner
    169 May 22 To: Michael Nakamaye            (522) Re: dinner
    170 May 23 Michael Nakamaye              (1,266) office hours
    171 May 24 To: [e-mail],  (1,093) Dinner for Mike on
Wednesday night
    172 May 25 Michael Nakamaye              (1,163) dinner
    173 May 26 To: Anne-Marie Oreskovich <o  (1,933) dinner for Mike(fwd)
    174 May 26 To: Alina Marian              (1,594) dinner for Mike (fwd)
    175 May 27 Michael Nakamaye              (1,909) thanks
    176 May 29 To: Michael A Hill              (714) take-home

As you can see, messages to me display the sender, and those from me display the
recipient. Netscape does not do this.

2.
If you click "reply" and it is a message sent by you to someone else, Pine will
send it to that someone else, not to yourself. That is, Pine will reply to the
recipient, if the sender was yourself. Netscape sends it to yourself, which is
silly.

3.
This third thing I doubt is anything you can do something about: in Pine, if I
type the username on the server of the person I"m sending the mesasge to, it'll
automatically input that person's full name and email address, without it being
in my addressbook. I tried connecting to the server thruogh the LDAP directory
feature in Netsacpe, but I could not. It said "Failed to bind to __ ue to LDAP
error 'Can't connect to LDAP server' (0X5B)".
  Again, don't worry about hte third point. Focus on 1 & 2.

 Thanks!
 Good luck!
  — Harpaul

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

*** Bug 19095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

*** Bug 19095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Phil Peterson]

(1) is covered in bug 18619. All Netscape email clients do (2), but mozilla does
not yet, which is covered in bug 16413. (3) sounds like some random bug we
should retest when mozilla gets LDAP support later in the project.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18619 ***

Comment 4

[fenella]

Mark it verified/dup.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/d689a5b53cc6
[fenix] Close https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/19094: Open sign-in flow if no account is created for tabs tray