273265 - info about original recipents and subject lost when replying

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[fredarin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When replying, Thunderbird will include the following information about the
original message:

"On 2004-12-02 08:03 John Smith wrote:"

Outlook typically includes the following by default:

From: John Smith
To: Adam Adams (email address URL), John Banks (email address URL), etc etc
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: I like Thunderbird, but not the reply-mgmt

I totally prefer the latter. Guess the reasons are obvious. It is not about
layout, its about not losing information about original subject and recipents.

I'd suggest basically adding user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 4);
with more options about how to compose the reply header.

Also I think that the reply-header should be more "integrated" with the orignial
message, i.e. more like what Outlook does.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[fredarin]

Discussed in http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1035604

Comment 2

[fredarin]

The possible extension available at http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/#ext7

Comment 3

[fredarin]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1037457#1037457 discusses it.

Can be solved with javascript such as
http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/ResetQuoteHeader.xpi