297054 - Reply all does not show the to, cc, sent and original subject in the mail body

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218258

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Patrick Schmitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

I want to replace Outlook / Outlook Express with Mozilla Thunderbird.
Most of our User use the Outlook feature Reply all, where the Mail client adds 
the following information in the Mail body.
Example:
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Das Team von Microsoft Outlook Express 
To: Neuer Outlook Express-Benutzer 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:53 AM
Subject: Willkommen

In Thunderbird there is only the option to insert something like this:
"author" wrote the following on "date":

By using the following configuration in user.js:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3); 

// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs. 
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s wrote the following"); 
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s"); 
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " "); 
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":"); 
// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon]

In order to replace Outlook we need the extra informations in the Mail Body, 
because in long Mail-Threads user replace and add Receipient without qouting it 
into the messages.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a email
2. Klick reply all


Actual Results:  
The reply looked the following:

AfterJobParty wrote the following on 15.11.2004 20:34:

> Der Inhalt dieser Mail in der Übersicht:
>
> 1. AfterJobParty präsentiert: Die Party der Nachtschwärmer am Freitag,
> 19. November  in den Rheinterrassen, Köln-Deutz 



Expected Results:  


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: AfterJobParty [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2004 20:35
An: [e-mail]
Betreff: Save the date: Donnerstag, 09. Dezember - Die AfterJobParty "X-Mas 
Special" in der Flora, präsentiert von Radio Köln 107,1

Der Inhalt dieser Mail in der Übersicht:

1. AfterJobParty präsentiert: Die Party der Nachtschwärmer am Freitag,
19. November  in den Rheinterrassen, Köln-Deutz

2. Die AfterJobParty "Christmas Special" am Donnerstag, 09. Dezember in
der Flora, präsentiert von Radio Köln 107,1


As I see in the Thunderbird source code there are 4 ways to build the 
Information in the mail body :

      switch (replyHeaderType)
      {
        case 0: // No reply header at all
          header=PR_FALSE;
          headerDate=PR_FALSE;
          break;

        case 2: // Insert both the original author and date in the reply header 
(date followed by author)
        case 3: // Insert both the original author and date in the reply header 
(author followed by date)
          header=PR_TRUE;
          headerDate=PR_TRUE;
          break;

        case 4: // XXX implement user specified header
        case 1: // Default is to only view the author. We will reconsider this 
decision when bug 75377 is fixed.
        default:
          header=PR_TRUE;
          headerDate=PR_FALSE;
          break;
      }
I think Case 4 might be the place to implement this issue, but this might be a 
feature which improves the ability to replace Outlook and might be done as case 
5.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of bug 67089.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67089 ***