34150 - Create chrome for messages displayed in browser or as attachment

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

<quote src="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33995">
------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2000-03-30 18:14 -------
It would also be good to be able to forward, reply to, or file the message.

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2000-03-30 18:46 -------
[...]
(View Source does not work, however.)

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2000-03-31 02:20 -------
> It would also be good to be able to forward, reply to, or file the message.

Yes, this would help a lot with mailing list archives.

If we'll implement just the mentioned functionality, it shouldn't be too hard
with XUL and CSS2 (assuming, the fix I have in mind works). I could take this as
an enhancement bug.

However, all of the functionality (except "Move" of course) of a standalone msg
is potentially interesting. So, if we could load the msg in the soon-to-be
implemented standalone msg window (bug #10875), we'd have a decent solution and
would also fix this bug (and View Source). But I don't know, how hard this would
be to implement.
</quote>

The latter has been rejected (propably due to time constraints).

So I'll go with my first idea: Use CSS2's ":before"/":after"-pseudo-elements to
insert XUL "code" for "reply"/"reply all"/"forward"/"file "buttons.

If that doesn't work, I'll have to locate the (C++) code, which writes the
"envelope" (header with stylesheet link) for the msgs and hardcode the XUL code
there.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Since when can I accept bug on behalf of others?

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

the time for real

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Changing personal priorities. Giving away most of my bugs :-( (reassigning to
default owner).

I will still track these bugs closely. If you need my input, feel free to ask me.

New owner: Please do *not* close these bugs (as WONTFIX or whatever you may
find) unless they are fixed. Rather, reassign to <[e-mail]>, if you
don't want to work on them.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ducarroz

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** Bug 82316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Chris Hiner]

*** Bug 84617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** Bug 84617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

"Copy to <folder>" must be available in this case, so the user has the option to
save the .eml file / internet resource in his msg store (e.g. Local Folders).

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** Bug 23113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[J Luh]

Duplicate or related bugs:
bug 3901
bug 11013
bug 34150
bug 55344
bug 69359

Comment 11

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Adding as deps.

Comment 12

[Bob Lord]

We will probably need this functionality for S/MIME.

Comment 13

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

If you want to implement it and need advice, please ask. I will help, *if* I can.

Comment 14

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to mscott. 

Comment 15

[[not reading bugmail]]

don't we wanna just open the Message window that works as of now.. see bug
11076?  Outlook Express does this upon loading .eml file created with Mozilla
Mail/News, see bug 26201, and then this wouldn't be needed, unless someone
doesn't install Mail/News component.  I'm not sure why this bug is still needed?
 Can someone clarify.

Comment 16

[J Luh]

Is this a duplicate of bug 11076?

Comment 17

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Not really. This is also for attached (forwarded) messages.

Comment 18

[Turadg Aleahmad]

I really depend on this feature.  Coworkers forward me mail as attachments and I
need to reply to the original mail.  But when I open the forwarded meessage,
almost all of the Message menu is grayed out.

I'd love to see this fixed in 1.5.

Comment 19

[Joey Day]

This is absolutely crucial if I'm going to use Thunderbird at work. I am in
customer service and my manager sends me over a hundred support request emails
per day that I must reply directly to. Also nice would be the ability to drag
the emails to a "to do" folder so I can delete them as I reply. I'm sure that
feature is listed in here somewhere too.

Comment 20

[Mauro Cicognini]

Is anyone working on this?
I'd like to help, since this bug is really annoying me so I may as well work
directly on the solution :-)

Comment 21

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> Is anyone working on this?

No, you are welcome to work on it. I can assign the bug to you, if you want.

Comment 22

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

No one seems to have been working on this for >4 years.

Reassigning to default QA contact.