245492 - RFE: Would like a 'Resend message' feature

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12916

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Chris P. Ross]

Many mailers allow a resend/bounce feature, where it takes a message unmodified,
but sends it to new addresses, using the Resent-To: and Resent-Date: (and I
think Resent-From:) fields.
After the addition of the patch for multiple identities (ref bug 44863), this is
the only feature missing from Mozilla/Thunderbird that requires me to go back to
a different mail client (mutt) to send some email.

nb,
"Edit Message As New" does *not* do what I want.  That allows you to change
headers, but not to send a message that shows the addresses it was previously
sent to, without having to also send it to them again...

Comment 1

[Chris P. Ross]

This is hard enough that it should be delayed until after 1.0?  I wouldn'tve
guessed that.  I wouldn't expect it to be in 0.7, certainly, but I guess I just
didn't think it was that hard.  What makes it hard?  Does it need an all-new UI
component?  I wouldn't think it would actually need any code [that doesn't
already exist].  Would it even need anything other than something akin to the
top part (addresses) of the composition window?  No need for spell-check or
anything else, since it's not composition or editing.
Hmm.  Maybe some people might like to edit out errors or the like.  Hmm.
Anyway, just confused by the desire to delay it that long...

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Looks like a dupe of bug 12916 (about relaying e-mails [bounce forward/new]). If
you don't want it to dupe against a MailNews bug, dupe it against Bug 230928.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

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