267810 - when view > headers > all is checked, forwarded messages contain full headers

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Josh Wand]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041010 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041010 Firefox/0.10

When view > headers > all is checked, forwarded messages contain full headers. 

It's nice to be able to view all headers (esp. with the expand/collapse UI in
the message and preview windows), but a side effect is that when I forward a
message, the FULL headers are included, including ones inserted by my MTA (e.g.
spam scoring, sneakemail info, etc). This is then a pain to delete when I don't
want my recipients to see all this info. I want to *see* the headers, not
*share* them

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. select View > Headers > All
2. forward a message


Actual Results:  
notice the full headers table in the new message compose window for the
forwarded message

Expected Results:  
Insert normal headers. If I want to forward a full message with headers, I'll
include it as an attachment, or copy those headers in myself.

version 0.8 (20040925)

Comment 1

[Jim Booth]

I disagree.  I often want to forward all headers, for example when reporting spam.  

Would a quicker way to turn off View All Headers mode satisfy you?   See Bug
150908.  

Either that or we need another preference to make it work your way.

Comment 2

[Josh Wand]

I suppose the reason I left view all headers on was that I used the collapse
feature to "toggle" it on or off easily, which is otherwise not accomplished
quickly. 

I understand the thinking behind the current behavior, it's just that in
practice, that behavior gets in my way more often than it helps (most of my
forwards are not spam reports). There's something misleading in the way it's
worded-- "view all headers" does not, to me, imply "...in replies and forwards." 

That's what the pref should look like: 
View > Headers
 ( ) All
 ( ) Normal
     -----
 [ ] in replies and forwards

or, alternatively, under message > forward as:
  inline
     with all headers
  attachment
 
If this belongs under bug 150908, let me know and I'm happy to close this one
and repost there.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

My recommendation is to not use View|Headers|All *at all*; see bug 154712.  If 
you need to see all the headers for a message, use  View|Message Source.

At any rate, as far as forwarding is concerned, the program is working as 
designed.   Severity => enhancement


(In reply to comment #1)
> I often want to forward all headers, for example when reporting spam.  

A large number of people, including myself, believe that "reporting spam" is an 
exercise in futility which merely adds more unnecessary traffic to the web.  
However, if you're determined to do so, you should be using Forward As 
Attachment for those cases.

Comment 4

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