239257 - forwarded e-mail (fw: / fwd:) should belong to thread

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 583587

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[kaido loor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

for me, sent e-mails are placed to Inbox, for easy filing. Such forwarded e-mail
in Inbox does not belong to thread, but is below all other e-mails  as it does
not belong to any thread. Would it make sense (or can it be done at all) that
forwarded e-mail belongs into the same thread as original and replied e-mails?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
0. Sort e-mail threaded, 
1. Read an e-mail (original e-mail),
2. Forward the e-mail to anybody,

Actual Results:  
Forwarded e-mail does not appear the thread of the original e-mail.


Expected Results:  
Forwarded e-mail appears in the thread of the original e-mail. This would allow
easier filing and identifieying answers to forwarded e-mails, as much less
browsing is required.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Threading is backend.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 261345 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Dan]

I can confirm this behavior as well.  

version 1.0+ (20050619), XP SP2

Comment 4

[Robert Eden]

confirmed here as well...  I've been using the "header tools" extension to change subjects and put things back in thread.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 6

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

I'm asking for blocking for TB3.  I would prefer an earlier version of TB2.x, but the flags aren't clear on where TB2.x will come from (or if it'll even exist).

Now that TB2 has the ability to put replies in the same folder as the original message, it's even more important to keep forwards as part of the 'conversation' within the same visual thread.

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE. Xref bug 194788.

Comment 9

[Aaron Leonard]

In current TB2 (2.0.0.12), View -> Sort By -> Threaded does indeed
include Fw: / Fwd: along with Re: within the thread.

However, in unthreaded view, subject-wise sort does *not* ignore
Fw:/Fwd: prefixes in the sort order, although it does ignore Re:
prefixes for sort order.

This is inconsistent ... Fw:/Fwd: prefixes should be ignored for
subject-wise sort. 

Comment 10

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

This is all on TB-2.0.0.12/Mac(In reply to comment #9)
> In current TB2 (2.0.0.12), View -> Sort By -> Threaded does indeed
> include Fw: / Fwd: along with Re: within the thread.

Aaron, are you sure?  I just took a message in my inbox and both replied to it and forwarded it (in both cases to a 2nd account of mine).  My sent-mail settings are to place sent mails in the folder of the message being replied to, and I have View > Sort by > Threaded selected.

Results:

1) The reply sent message (with Re: prepended) was threaded along the original message) in the sender accont
2) The forwarded sent message (with [Fwd: ] ) was added to the bottom of my sender inbox into its own thread.

In the receiving account, the reply and the forwarded message did _not_ get threaded w/ each other, even though their subjects were identical except for the Re: and [Fwd: ] bits.

And if I then replied to each of those messages (in the 2nd account) back to the original sender, the reply to the reply went into the original thread (as expected), but the reply to the forward went into the separate thread of the forward.

This is all on TB-2.0.0.12/Mac

Comment 11

[Aaron Leonard]

My mistake - forwarded messages (whether with Fw:, Fwd: or [Fwd: ]) are not properly threaded either.

Comment 12

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Retriaging according to new policy for flags.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Release_Driving
(bugs marked wanted- don't indicate we wouldn't accept patches, but that they're not going to be the focus for release drivers)

Comment 13

[Bart Goossens]

Thundirbird 3 has the same problem. A Forward is not placed in the original thread  and starts a new thread. Not easy to follow discussions.
Is there a way to have the forwarded mails in the same thread?

Comment 14

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

Thunderbird 2.x used a non-strict threading policy which indeed allowed Fwd: emails to be threaded with the original one. Now Thunderbird 3.x uses strict threading by default, which cuts off the forwarded message from the original thread. This will be fixed soon (see duplicate).