325232 - Copy From: header of message as Text capability

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5

I want to be able to copy the From: header of a message as text, not as an E-mail address.  Other portions of the header pane can be copied as text.  In Mozilla Suite, I can copy a link (including a mailto link) either as a URL or as text.  But in Thunderbird, I can neither highlight the From: header nor copy it other than as an E-mail address.  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 302913 -> Suite bug 167010?

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

This might be the same problem as bug #167010.  However, that is a Mozilla Suite bug; and this is a Thunderbird bug.  Unless the Product for bug #167010 is changed to Thunderbird, these are two different bugs and should both remain open.  

Since bug #167010 has Severity of "normal", I'm changing this one to "normal".  

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

-> enh to take it off the "bug" radar.  (doing same with Bug 167010)

Comment 4

[David E. Ross]

I want to be able to copy the display-name portion of the From header field of a message and then paste it into another message that I'm composing.  In order to do this, I must view the source of the first message and copy from there.  This is definitely not user friendly.  

This is also why I continue to use Eudora Lite 3.0.6 (more than 10 years old) for E-mail.  That version of Eudora has this capability.