236859 - Feature/Enhancement Request: Redirect Email

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12916

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Albrecht]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

One of the things that can be done in Eudora is a 'Redirect' (as opposed to
'Forward') function which sends the email to another recipient, preserving all
of the original senders header info so the new recipient can treat this message
as coming directly to them. This greatly facilitates replying to the original
sender, whereas Forwarding, while preserving the header info in the body of the
forwarded message, does not allow replying directly to the original sender
without copying/pasting address(es). The lack of this functionality is the only
complaint I hear in a large organization that has been using Eudora for ever and
is now migrating to Mozilla Suite and Thunderbird

Any help is definitely appreciated. I'm getting lots of questions from everyone
about this - they really like the new email system but really miss the redirect
feature. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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In Eudora, orignal Message (pertinent info from header and body):
---------------------------
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:11:04 -0800
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
To: WASHINGTON STATE UNIV <[e-mail]>
From: Idaho and North Idaho <[e-mail]>
Subject: Univ.of Idaho Library:Overdue Notice

11/24/2003

Idaho and North Idaho
*UI-CIRCULATION

Dear WASHINGTON STATE UNIV:
------------------------------------------
Using Eudora's redirect to another recipient:
------------------------------------------
From - Mon Mar 08 15:11:16 2004
X-UIDL: 8f838e78306254293ec42197199c2bcb
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from holeast101a.mail.wsu.edu (holeast101a.wsulibs.wsu.edu
[134.121.164.198])
	by cheetah.it.wsu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NAg0k000161
	for <[e-mail]>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:10:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
X-Sender: [e-mail] (Unverified)
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:10:43 -0800
To: [e-mail]
From: Idaho and North Idaho <[e-mail]> (by way of WSU
Interlibrary Loan <[e-mail]>)
Subject: Univ.of Idaho Library:Overdue Notice
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
X-UIDL: 8f838e78306254293ec42197199c2bcb

11/24/2003

Idaho and North Idaho
*UI-CIRCULATION

Dear WASHINGTON STATE UNIV
---------------------------
Note the (by way of WSU ... ) text in the From: line
This way, the original From address is preserved and the new recipient can reply
directly.

I hope this can find its way into a soon-to-be-released version.

Thank you for the wonderful browser/email-news/etc.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Looks like a dupe of bug 12916 (about relaying e-mails [bounce forward/new]).

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12916 ***