271434 - "Watched Thread" feature for email, not just newsgroups

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 179033

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Eric Poulsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

There doesn't seem to be any way to watch (or ignore) an email thread.  This
would be most helpful for email discussion groups.  However, under the View -->
Threads pulldown, there's a "Watched Threads with Unread" option.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
N/A
Actual Results:  
N/A

Expected Results:  
Watchable / Ignorable threads in email.

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

I think, maybe, that this should be two bug reports:
One, a feature request to watch threads in e-mails.
Two, a bug report for giving the option to sort e-mail by watched threads, but
not giving the option to watch e-mail threads.

Comment 2

[Richard van der Hoff]

This is a duplicate of bug #179033 I think.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

As it happens, that bug is for the suite and this bug is for Thunderbird - and
this is purely a front end bug.

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Dean Sas]

This bug has been reported in launchpad (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/32177)

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Seems simple enough to fix.

Comment 7

[Kristian Rink]

Disturbing to see such a feature missing in Thunderbird - is no one using this application for mailing lists? ;) Anyway, is there a known workaround to "emulate" this feature while this one's still open?

Comment 8

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Disturbing to see such a feature missing in Thunderbird - is no one using this
> application for mailing lists? ;) Anyway, is there a known workaround to
> "emulate" this feature while this one's still open?

It is possible to "emulate" this feature for filtering by manually editing the actual filter file (e.g., msgFilterRules.dat).

Comment 9

[Kristian Rink]

msgFilterRules.dat - How? Is that documented anywhere, or are there even examples out there?

Comment 10

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Kristian: I guess doing one for news, and following example.