19231 - Support mail aliases/identities to "me" (self) to reduce duplicate replies

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Phil Peterson]

Splitting this issue out of bug 16413.

This is a feature tracking bug for the feature where there's a preference for
alternate email addresses which are also "me".

The main purpose of this feature is to allow people who send mail as
"[e-mail]" or "[e-mail]" to avoid receiving duplicate
messages when they send mail. The main mail address (e.g. "[e-mail]"
is pruned from replies, but other hostnames which use the same mail server are
not. In 4.5, the preference was called "mail.identity.useremail.aliases", and
it's a comma-separated list of regular expressions, e.g. "phil@*.netscape.com,
phil@*.mcom.com"

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I would prefer as least the option for this to be a prompt.  It's a nice idea
but I often send from one account to another.

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

> I would prefer as least the option for this to be a prompt

What does that mean? You want the aliases list to be in the Preferences dialog?
Or something else?

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Apologies.  What I meant was that detection of aliases should prompt the user as
to whether they should be removed, rather than doing it behind their back.

This was split off a "Reply To All" bug and if it only applies to that, I'm fine
with it as proposed.  If there's something more than that, ie doing it in normal
messages, a prompt might be necessary.

Comment 4

[Phil Peterson]

> This was split off a "Reply To All" bug and if it only applies to that, I'm
> fine with it as proposed.

Yes, only for replies. Otherwise, it would be impossible to send mail to
yourself, and that would be bad :-)

Comment 5

[pmock]

Changing qa assigned to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Phil Peterson]

P4 per m/n staff mtg today

Comment 7

[selmer (gone)]

Moving all P4s out of beta2 to M17.

Comment 8

[selmer (gone)]

[FEATURE] bugs past M16 are OUT for this release.  Marking M20.  If you disagree 
with this action, please help me explain it to the PDT.

Comment 9

[Phil Peterson]

Adding 4xp keyword since we supported this in 4.5+

Comment 10

[lchiang]

Moving target milestone to "future" to be reviewed at a later time

Comment 11

[varada]

Adding mail3 keyword.

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

marking nbeta1- and cc'ing jpm who might be interested.

Comment 13

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Pine has this. A related feature that comes out of this is the abilty to quickly
select all messages that were actually sent To one of the user's aliases (as
opposed to the 98% of mail I get that is just mailing list spam...)

Comment 14

[John Levon]

Kharma whore for dupes

Comment 15

[Max Waterman]

Probably another bug, but when i have mozilla collect email addresses, it also
collects addresses from people who send via the server on their local machines.
It would be nice to be able to say, for example '[e-mail] ==
[e-mail] == [e-mail] == [e-mail]', but for
everyone. Perhaps a rule to remove parts of the domain which are unnecessary
'remove mxaw@*.sgi.com' would cause it to treat all the above as '[e-mail]'.

Does this make any sense? Part of this or a different bug? Probably an RFE anyway...

Max.

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

does this fit into an current 3.x schema?