268453 - Replying to Rootsweb digests replies to whole digest not individual messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204350

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[John Rouse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)

I read mail digests from Rootsweb. When I try to reply to an individual message
in the digest Thunderbird replies to the whole digest, not the individual
author. This function works fine in Turnpike, my previous mail reader.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a digest message
2. Right click, select reply
3.

Actual Results:  
A message is composed to the digest source address, not the author of the
imdividual message.

Expected Results:  
Composed a reply to the author of the message

Default theme

Comment 1

[Marius Scurtescu]

I just wanted to add a feature request for this, there seems to be no proper
support for digest messages. Each digest message does show up as an attachement
and you can open it and reply to it, but it is very hard (close to impossible)
to open the right message if there is a long list.

Some specific navigation buttons for digest messages would be great (Next/Previous).

Marius

Comment 2

[E. Weddington]

I would also very much like to get this feature in.
- Easily navigate digests (open and view individual messages without having to
reference a meaningless number).
- Reply to individual messages within a digest.

Pegasus mail does both of these quite easily.

It makes it very difficult to be a member of various open source project's
mailing lists without this feature.

Comment 3

[John Rouse]

A digest appears in Thunderbird with each message as an attachment in a box at
the foot of the page. Clicking on the attachment launches a new page with only
the one message in it, but the reply button greyed out. Is the fix as simple as
enabling this greyed out button?

Comment 4

[John Rouse]

Does anything happen when you report a bug, or is it just like **** in the wind?

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[E. Weddington]

This is still a highly desired feature request. Quit sending stupid automated
messages to this database and get a developer to read the actual feature request.

We want to be able to reply to individual messages within a *digest*. Right now
you can only reply to the entire digest message which is incredibly stupid.
There are other free email programs that have this feature (Pegasus Mail).

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The capability to reply to a  message/rfc822  attachment (as is typical 
for digests sent as multipart) has been added to the trunk (TB 1.6/2.0 and Seamonkey 1.8.1/1.9).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204350 ***