258614 - Option to include e-mail address in reply header

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140377

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Hicks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

There are several options for setting the format of the reply header ("Author
wrote:" by default), but there does not appear to be an option to add the e-mail
address ("Author <[e-mail]> wrote:"), which has largely been the standard
I've used for about a decade.

By setting mailnews.reply_header_type in user.js, it is possible to add a
timestamp, which can be useful, but it does not appear to be possible to add the
e-mail address itself, unless the original message had no name to it and just an
address.

This is generally not an issue for replying to a single person, but when replies
get to be a few layers deep, old addresses can get lost.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 107884 (which is not filed in the right component if you ask me) mentions 
the email address as one of several options to provide.  Right now, that feature 
doesn't exist at all.  Changing this to an enhancement, moving to Mail/News.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 250709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Bill Stewart]

This issue is still unresolved. It would really be helpful to have this option
when posting to newsgroups. Note that this issue is related to news, not mail.
Mail replies can already include the e-mail address in the header; I'd like to
be able to do this in newsgroups. Thanks

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140377 ***