37028 - [RFE] Support Mail-Copies-To header

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement, P3)

Description

[John Moreno]

The Mail-Copies-To header allows a poster to request that a Cc of a news post be 
mailed (either to the Reply-To/From address or to a specified address), or that 
there not be a Cc sent (at least not without warning the person attempting to do so 
that the person he is replying to didn't want one).

Some people always want a Cc, some people never want a Cc, and some people
will want one to specific messages.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

this is not an account manager bug. Please use the appropriate component. 
reassign to ducarroz

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

I do think this would be a cool feature though...
The places we'd have to add:
- a dropdown in the compose window which allows you to set this header
- support for this when replying to messages
- possibly a pref which was the default Mail-Reply-To header for the current 
identity.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Would be nice, if Mozilla would at least honor the header.

Comment 4

[Fabian Guisset]

*** Bug 35422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[John Moreno]

MCT is included in the latest USEFOR draft.  I could see how support for 
"nobody" could be a bit of a problem, but how hard would it be to add 
support for "poster"?

Comment 6

[John Moreno]

Just found another newsreader that honors the header (Dialog), and 
thought I'd mention it in case anyone is interested...

Comment 7

[Jan Ingvoldstad]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Just found another newsreader that honors the header (Dialog), and 
> thought I'd mention it in case anyone is interested...

If I recall correctly, the following newsreaders all honor the header:

 - Agent
 - XNews
 - slrn
 - Gnus (since 1996)

Outlook Express behaves like Mozilla MailNews, but it hides the option of
replying to both newsgroups and sender in a menu.


Amazing that this just is left alone for 8-9 years, though.