227424 - A way to quickly find messages posted by me to a newsgroup.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Gelb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

When I visit a highly trafficed newsgroup, it is difficult quickly find the
message that I have posted the day before.

I am proposing the following feature (turned on/off by a pref) - in the prefs I
could select the label (from the existing "labels" list) by which my message
would be colored.  This way, if I selected the 'Important' label, my messages in
the newsgroup would be in red color.  

This way, it would be very easy for me to locate my message and see if there
have been any responses to it.

The messages that I submitted could be tracked by either my name on the
newsgroup account or message id (is it possible?).

I feel that this would be a killer feature for newsgroup junkies and place
Thunderbird well above other newsgroup clients.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to a highly trafficed newsgroup
2.  Post a message
3.  Try and find your message the next

Actual Results:  
Described in "Details" section

Expected Results:  
My messages should be labeled.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Can do this *today* with regular message filters - I've done so for a few years.

filter
set "Filters for" to the news server (not the newsgroup)
criteria: From contains <my address>
action: Tag Message = important

or quick filter bar

FWIW, Bug 11048 - Auto-watch threads you've posted to (Preference) - would be a superset