294813 - Add an option to get sender information without opening message

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[E M Culver]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Lotus Notes has a "document properties" feature which enables a user to get the
sender, routing information, and other information, including the body as raw
text, without opening the message.  I believe this (or something similar) would
be a useful feature to add to Thunderbird.  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Why would you want to do that without opeing the message? Sounds like something
for an extension if you really want it, IMO. 

Comment 2

[E M Culver]

To Magnus:

Mostly because of various HTML trickery within emails.

This does not sound like a terribly difficult change;  I would think the email
header is downloaded with the email proper.  I'm not concerned about an
automatically returned email receipt;  I've got Thunderbird set up so it never
sends them.

Maybe I'll try writing the extension.  I need the practice in a languages other
than perl, Fortran, or javascript.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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