262464 - Add a context menu item for viewing message source

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Victor Luchits]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040907 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040907 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)

Currently, there are two ways of viewing selected message source: pressing
Ctrl+U and selecting the appropriate item in the 'View'. However, it's sometimes
more handy to have an option of viewing the message source in right-click
context menu. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Will Budreau]

This would also help make bug 154712 more successful, would provide a workaround
for bug 213459, bug 218966

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Bug 118922 was closed as DUP of Bug 112710 on 2002-01-09.
Bug 112710 was closed as WONTFIX on 2001-12-03, and REOPENed on 2001-12-04, then
closed as WONTFIX again on 2001-12-04.  
> Bug 118922 : view message source on right mouse button context menu
> Bug 112710 : "View Message Source" in EMail context menu 

Then users opened Bug 113848 and Bug 135232.

Bug 113848 was closed as DUP of Bug 75338 on 2001-12-19 (this means WONTFIX).
Bug 75338 was closed as RESOLVED/FIXED on 2002-04-06.
> Bug 113848 : RFE: "View Message Source" in EMail context menu
> Bug  75338 : Clean up context menus for Navigator/Messenger content

Bug 170542 was closed as DUP of Bug 135232 on 2002-09-24.
Bug 135232 was closed as DUP of Bug 138128 on 2004-03-28.
("View property" part only. "View/Message Source" part is WONTFIX according to
Bug 75338) 
Bug 138128 is NEW(Message Info only. Doesn't contain View/Source request).
> Bug 170542 : Request: view message source on message list context menu
> Bug 135232 : RFE: Add Message Properties / Message Source to contextual menu
> Bug 138128 : View Message Info

I also think "View/Source in context menu" is far better than not-so-useful "All
headers mode".
But "View/Message Source" in context menu looks to be still hated by developers...

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 331245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Personally, I'd find "View source" much more useful on the context menu than "Print Preview". But that might be from a power user's perspective. If there was a "Print preview" button in the Print dialogue, we could easily drop the print preview command from context menu.

As of TB3, there's another way of accessing this (mouse users mainly): "Other actions" dropdown button on header pane includes "view source".

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I'd still think that having "View message source" on message context menu is useful and doesn't hurt. I find it very surprising that "View source" is the only message-related action that is currently *not* listed in the context menu.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Same as Seamonkey bug 545875. Confirming per comment 5 and comment 6.

Next Step for this bug:
Get ui-review for missing context menu entry for "View Source" (mockup screenshot).

Comment 8

[13hu]

Thunderbird 60.2.1 (Ubuntu) is still missing a quick "view source" context menu option.
To access View Source, user must open an email and click the More dropdown menu.

Can we get view source added to the main right-click message context menu ?