307332 - Thunderbird needs a log over incoming messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257942

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[db]

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/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

It would be nice if Thunderbird offered a log over incoming messages. I have 5
imap-accounts with server side filtering and between 10 and 20 folders on each
server. Sometimes it is very difficult to find where a new mail arrived when I
get the new mail notification. A log window would resolve this problem.

Typically it would contain something like this

New message
time/date: 14.23 2005-09-05 (this is ISO-date format)
sender: [e-mail]
receiver: [e-mail] or [empty] if it is only bcc:ed
subject: This is a test of the new log in Thunderbird
Account: IMAP3
Mailbox: IMAP3.inbox.bugzilla
Size: 12kB

This would probably be enough to identify the message and also be able to make a
decision about whether it is important or not.



Reproducible: Always




While waiting for this to hopefully be implemented, would it be possible to add
this functionality through an extension?

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 257942?

Comment 2

[db]

Have a look at how Eudora implemented its log. I think it works reasonably well,
and it also has a feature "log all transferred bytes" which is useful when you
want to debug something or just are curious on some protocol details of
POP/IMAP/SMTP.

It also offers to log to disk which works fine without any noticable performance
hit, not even back in 1994.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

agree with comment 1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257942 ***