370260 - Add tags in the compose window (before sending)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Ed O'Loughlin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070116)

The ability to add tags to a message in the compose window would be nice. Currently, if you want to tag messages you've sent, you have to switch to to the 'sent items' and find it etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Nice idea.

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You could, of course, kinda do this already:
- Add X-Mozilla-Keys to the pref mail.compose.other.header, so that you can choose this header in the compose window.
- When composing, add your tag's internal key (see prefs mailnews.tags.*) to this headers value 
Not very nice, no doubt. ;-)
)

Comment 3

[Josh Feingold]

To add to Karsten Düsterloh comments for someone who doesn't know what they are doing (like myself) in Windows XP

1)  Launch Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles, replacing username with your actual username.

Within this folder, you should find one other folder whose name is a random collection of letters and numbers followed by .default. Open this folder and look for a file within it named user.js. If that file is not present, right-click in the right-hand pane, select New | Text Document, and rename the resulting document to user.js, answering Yes when Windows asks if you're sure you want to change the extension. Right-click the user.js file and select Edit to open it in Notepad. Then add the following line to the end of the file:

user_pref("mail.compose.other.header", "X-Mozilla-Keys");

2) Restart Thunderbird.  

3) Go to a message that has Tags on it and hit CTRL+U to view the message source. In the header you will see a line like

X-Mozilla-Keys: $label1  

4) Compose an email and select X-Mozilla-Keys instead of To: or CC:.  For the value use $label1 and your tag will be applied.

Hope that helps!
Josh

https://www.staffasap.com

Comment 4

[Steve McMillen]

Thanks for the workaround tip. This capability is important enough for me that its worth doing this.

I'll use this to set a "follow-up" tag on messages so I can track action items I ask others to take care of.  

btw: If its not clear, I second this feature request!! 

Comment 5

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

It appears the tag toolbar extension provides this functionality:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4970

Although the extension description on a.m.o doesn't list this specific feature, the author's detailed page on the add-on does ("Add tags to a sent message"):
http://hogi.a.orn.jp/en/ttb_desc.html

Comment 8

[Ryan Germann]

I vote for this feature: being able to assign a tag in the COMPOSE window, rather than after the mail has been sent, would help me keep track of mails by specific type of communication or subject (billable work, free support, etc). I want to be able to do this in the compose window so I can run a filter that will gather up all the tagged messages in my SENT mail and file them in a folder with received messages from customers, to both sides of the communication organized and threaded properly in a single mail folder. When I read an incoming mail, I can tag it quite easily, but sent mail is many steps as described above. Let's make it as easy to organize and sort Sent mail as it is to deal with Inbox mail

Comment 9

[Kris]

I would like this feature as well, also:

When replying to an e-mail that has been tagged, I would like the option for the new e-mail to auto-inherit the tag(s) when placed in the sent folder. Not to ask me each time, but a checkbox in Tools > Options > Display > Tags.

I use message filters to tag incoming e-mail to a specific project, when I reply it would be great to inherit that tag.