302142 - Better Reply & Forward Headers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 107884

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Buford T. Justice]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716)

The reply (and forward) headers need work. If a guy named Joe Blow e-mails me
and I reply back with Thunderbird, the header is (no quotes) "Joe Blow wrote:".
That is kind of bland. It should really be like this...

On 7/25/05 at 1:05 AM, Joe Blow <[e-mail]> wrote:

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply to any message in Thunderbird.
2. You will see [author] wrote:
Actual Results:  
Joe Blow wrote:

Expected Results:  
On 7/25/05 at 1:05 AM, Joe Blow <[e-mail]> wrote:

Comment 1

[Buford T. Justice]

When I forward a message, why it the subject header all funky? Suppose if I get
an e-mail with car pictures called (no quotes) "Ford GT Pictures" and I decide
to forward it. The subject is changed to (no quotes) "[Fwd: Ford GT Pictures]".
What is up with the brackets and Fwd:? It should be this...

FW: Ford GT Pictures

Also, if I reply to the above message, it should have the "Re:" capitalized...

RE: Ford GT Pictures

Comment 2

[Buford T. Justice]

The best I have been able to come up with is this in user.js...

On 7/26/2005 1:00 AM, Joe Blow Shipley wrote:

The contents of my user.js file...

// Change the reply header
// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjuction with 
this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2);

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

Comment 3

[Buford T. Justice]

// Change the reply header
// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjuction with this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2);

// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s wrote");
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]

Comment 4

[Benjamin Naftzger]

We also need the option to set reply-to header to Outlook like formats (arguably one of the world's most popular formats). e.g:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: KurzweilAI.net [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: None
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter
> 
> message continues....

We need the options for reply-to and forward header formatting options to be within the Thunderbird client (rather than editing the java file). 

Comment 5

[Hiro]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107884 ***