269399 - "Expecting mail/report" feature request...

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Andersson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040917 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040917 Firefox/0.9.3

If I send a mail to someone I sometimes need a response before some set time,
but I often forget to remind the receivers if I don't get an answer from them in
time. What would really help me (and everyone I've talked to about this idea) is
a way to say "Send this letter and if I don't get an answer before X
minutes/hours/days/11:45 etc, I want to be notified.". The notification should
include the original mail so I can resend it and/or just to see what it was all
about.

The program could know if a message contains the response by looking at
"References:" headers as well as some matching of sender/receiver and subject.


This could perhaps also be extended to "expect" other kinds of messages. Daily
reports from a backup program for example. If it does not come before 10:00
every working day or if the body of the message contains "error" I would like to
be notified about it otherwise I don't want to see it in the inbox. A
combination of filters and such an "expect" feature would really help here.

I can imaging people getting various kinds of employee reports would want some
feature like that too.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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