279226 - message threads and german prefixes like "Aw:" instead of "Re:"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 29179

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[zupi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Hi, i'm a great fan of Thunderbird but i don't get happy with the threaded
message view in the main window.
You know, the feature that all messages with same subject are displayed threaded
like in some discussion boards (don't know how to explain it in English).

Thunderbird recognizes that "Re: My Subject" or "Fwd: My Subject" belong to "My
Subject" ... but in Germany, we have some email clients (screw them!) that add
prefixes like "Aw:" or even "Antwort:" (german word for "answer") which
Thunderbird does not recognize to belong to the same topic.

If you don't want to build this in for all localizations, maybe a preference
would be nice where everyone can define prefixes for "belonging together" messages.

Maybe there even is such a preference I don't know about?

Greets from Germany!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

similiar (treat AW: as Re:):

read the following thread (in German):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=7206106&forum_id=71999
and see bug 213004

But this is not really what you want (to use Aw:).

Comment 2

[zupi]

Thats not what i've meant.
But a reference therein points to bug 108163, which seems to be quite the same
as mine.

Sorry for this DUP, I did't have luck with my search terms.

Comment 3

[Bruce Davidson]

This is a dupe of bug 29179 - its a problem in our core MailNews code, rather
than Thunderbird in particular.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29179 ***