272997 - Change customer facing Label for UserAgent or X-Mailer String

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Michael Dunn]

Fixing Bug 65472 enabled X-Mailer value to be displayed if UserAgent not
available. But this now creates an ambiguity when the display pref is set to
true.  The value is labeled to the user as UserAgent string.

Steps.
In mailnews.js set pref("mailnews.headers.showUserAgent",true);
Open mail from Outlook Express (which uses X-Mailer value)

Result.
Mail header Display shows:
User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106

I suggest change of user facing display to:
Mail Composed with: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
or 
Sent on:Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
or similar.

Comment 1

[Michael Dunn]

Attachment: Current TBird scrn shot

Comment 2

[Michael Dunn]

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Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Michael, can you update this bug (and summary if needed) to current conditions with version 3?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this make sense?

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)

Does this make sense?

Well, sort of.
With pref mailnews.headers.showUserAgent=true, we'll show an extra header labeled User agent with normal headers view (still useful and working well in TB 102.2.0 (64-bit)).
If there's a User-Agent header (typically from Thunderbird), that will be shown.
If there's any of x-mailer, x-mimeole, or x-newsreader, those, too, will be shown with the label User agent (via this code), which is somewhat incorrect/misleading (this bug). Very minor issue. Showing the actual header names in the label would be good, but may be a bit hard to implement.

Reporter proposes using neutral label like Sent with instead of User agent to cover user-agent, x-mailer etc. - what do you think?