294473 - Add type to custom-header-fields (for filtering etc.) e. g. to support date-fields

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Michaelis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/1.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-DE) 20041207

My main problem is to have a filter based on the "Expiry-Date:" field as defined
by Outlook. I would like to automatically delete a mail where the "Expiry-Date:"
is passed.

Currently the custom-headers for filters only support String-values. Only the
predefined "Date"-header allows to create filters based on date-filtering.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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Comment 2

[Mark Michaelis]

The following types for headers should be available:

- String (currently this is the only available type)
- Integer (like Age in Days)
- Date (like Received- or Send-Date)
- Enum (like e. g. the Priority)

Comment 3

[Ronald Killmer]

Needs OS changed to all and component to mail front end.