288506 - Automatically Close Message when Replying/Forwarding

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Elroy Sullivan, PhD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

How about an option (somewhere under Tools/Options, of course) that asks if you
want to automatically close the email you are reading when you click REPLY or
FORWARD.  I reply to many of my emails, and I often forget to close the
original.  As I go through my emails (replying to the ones I want), I wind up
with many messages open, which gets confusing.  When I decide to reply, I'm
always ready to close the original message.  However, it just gets covered by
the reply message, and stays open.

You guys are truly fantastic.  Thunderbird truly puts Outlook and other email
software to shame.  When people say that computers should be designed
(programmed) to accomodate people, and not vice-versa, you guys get it.

Regards,
Elroy Sullivan, PhD


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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