356860 - Custom columns from message headers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[TT]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060720 SeaMonkey/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060720 SeaMonkey/1.0.3

In the message index view, I have a choice of the following columns:

Thread
Attachments
Junk Status
Sender
Recipient
Read
Date
Status
Flag
Label
Priority
Unread in Thread
Total in Thread
Order Received
Account

I would also like to see the ability to add any message header as a column.  For example, my server does spam filtering, and it applies a numeric score as a message header, like this:

X-Spam-Score: 0

I would like to be able to specify this header as a column.  That way, in the index, there would be a column that lists the spam scores.  This would help me tune the spam filter, but this feature could have lots of other uses.





Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

We recently added the ability for extensions to add arbitrary columns to the thread pane. What's missing is the ability to store arbitrary headers in the .msf files, controlled by a pref. Once I do that, someone could write an extension to show arbitrary columns in the thread pane.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: add ability to customize headers we store in the .msf file

this allows extensions to set/add to a pref controlling which headers we download and parse, and store in the .msf file, accessible from nsIMsgHdr.getStringProperty

This could enable some interesting extensions, in conjunction with the custom column stuff we did earlier.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 242809 [details] [diff] [review]
add ability to customize headers we store in the .msf file

This can probably get removed:

+    else
+    {
+    }

This should be really cool David!

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

I think Eric already has the custom tree columns thing on his list of desired Thunderbird documentation. This feature goes hand in hand with that and should be on the list too.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

Fixed on trunk and branch. One crucial thing to document is that the property that's set on the msg hdr is all lower case - e.g., if you add X-Spam-Score to the list of message headers to store in the .msf file, you would get the property "x-spam-score" from the msg hdr. Mail headers are all case-insensitive, so we convert them to lower case...

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: make list of headers be space delimited since ',' is apparently a legal char in a header

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 248409 [details] [diff] [review]
make list of headers be space delimited since ',' is apparently a legal char in a header

is there documentation devmo that might need updated to reflect this change?

Comment 8

[David :Bienvenu]

I did a devmo search on the pref in question, mailnews.customDBHeaders, and didn't get any hits...so I don't think there's anything up there.