367684 - Message History: Keep history of received message redirects, replies, forwards etc

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243753

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Cefe López]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
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If a received message is answered, redirected, forwarded, etc and with which personality is impossible to know in Eudora but it should be interesting to have it in Penelope. Therefore an associated history file should accompany each mailbox  to keep track of these activities.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

Funny enough, I just posted a similar comment in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35923, saying:

I've been thinking of a 'message history' that would provide info like:

[Date/Time stamp] Message received using account [account name]

[Date/Time stamp] Matched filter [Filter Name], Label [Some Label] assigned

[Date/Time stamp] Matched filter [Filter Name], transferred to mailbox [Mailbox
name]

[Date/Time stamp] Message viewed

[Date/Time stamp] Message forwarded to [Address]

[Date/Time stamp] Message marked unread

[Date/Time stamp] Message viewed

[Date/Time stamp] Message transferred to [Mailbox Name]

etc...

Comment 2

[Jeff Beckley]

Bryan Clark has some ideas on incorporating things like this in a new Activity History window: <http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/06/04/activity-is-the-new-download/>.

Comment 3

[Matt Dudziak]

Assigning to Thunderbird as this is not unique to Penelope.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Bryan, feel free to move this somewhere more appropriate - backend, whatever. It's just lost in General.

Comment 5

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I guess I'll keep this in the front end since that's where the Activity Manager work has been kept.

Comment 6

[Alexandru Gheorghe]

To avoid opening a duplicate, is it possible to have a history also for the latest opened e-mails? Example:

1) I search for an e-mail, it takes me a while to find the good one (through thousands)
2) I open and read it in a new tab
3) I close it
4) Later on, I come again to it by way of searching since I forgot something
5) I've to repeat all the process

In order to avoid this, we can have a panel dedicated to history of latest opened e-mails, (i.e. 10) so I can easily go to the message I recently viewed.

What're your thoughts on this? Do we need a separate ticket?