222839 - "AW:" in subject line instead of "Re:" (German MS mail clients) becomes annoying

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29179

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Gero Zahn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

German MS mail clients tend to add "AW:" instead of "Re:" ("AW" = "Antwort" =
"answer") when replying. Mozilla Mail creates "Re: AW: ..." on a re-reply.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a reply mail with "AW: ..." from a German MS mail client user.
2. Reply with Mozilla Mail.
3. See the "Re: AW: ..." subject.
Actual Results:  
Nothing really unusual: As this is going on through re-replys and re-re-replys,
this produces ugly growing "Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: ..." subject lines.

Expected Results:  
It would really help to simply remove the "AW:" (which stands for "Re:" in some
oftenly used mail clients) instead of adding "Re:" in front of it.

I'm not sure whether this problem is just obvious in Germany or in other
countries as well. Perhaps there should be some kind of general purpose
solution, handling many different "reply-tags" like "Re:", "AW:", ...

Comment 1

[Gero Zahn]

Attachment: Bug #222839 - "Re:" / "AW:" cascade

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

dupe of bug 29179 (see bug 29179 comment 6), but see also bug 108163

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29179 ***