324628 - Fixing Subject: headers beginning with "R: " instead of "Re: "

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213004

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Angelo Dipierro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5 (20051201)

Italian versions of Outlook and Outlook express (as well as some webmail apps) have the bad habit of prepending "R: " instead of "Re: " to message replies. Could this be fixed client-side in order to file replies in the same thread as the original message? Also, not adding a "Re: " prefix to replies to such messages could prevent the "Re: R: Re: original subject" insanity.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Karsten Düsterloh]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213004 ***

Comment 2

[Angelo Dipierro]

Maybe I'm being a bit dense here, anyway...

I've read all the comments for #213004 and haven't been able to figure out if this fixes my problem somehow. I've ben getting messages with the damn "R: " the Italian version of outlook uses instead of "Re: " all afternoon, and thunderbird 

- happily refused to strip them and replace them with "Re: "
- kept adding a new "Re: " to each reply I sent, which outlook on the other side happily removed adding another silly "R: ". 

Right now a message sits in my inbox starting with "R: R: R: R: R: R: ...". 

Am I missing something?

I'm using thunderbird 1.5, non localized. Is there any way to configure it to fix this insanity, that is strip localized "Re: " subjects whatever the string may be, and replace them with non-localized ones? 

thanks in advance :-)

Comment 3

[u49640]

Thunderbird should also recogize "Antwort:" as "RE:"

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

I think this is basically a dup of bug 213004 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213004 ***