37332 - Let user edit References header

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36024

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

"David A. Cobb" <[e-mail]> wrote to .mail-news:
> I subscribe to many discussion lists and the ability of the mail
> client to thread the incoming mail is vital.  People, or their
> mailers, sometimes mess up the thread data when they reply: either
> they change the subject or drop tags.
>
> It would be very helpful if I could edit thread associations at
> least in my own message-store: "this one is related to that one" or,
> especially when the sender assigned no subject, "this one is NOT
> related to that one."

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

helpwanted. selmer, remove/reassign, if you disagree.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Not sure if this is a good idea ... but if it is implemented, a suggested UI:

To mark message B as a reply to message A, drag message B onto message A. You 
want a special border for message A when it is being hovered over, and a special 
cursor too -- the same one as is used when moving a message to a specific folder.

To break such a link, drag message B to a different position in the thread pane. 
The same border and cursor should apply in this case as when linking the 
messages. In addition, the same inter-item line should be used as when 
rearranging bookmarks.

Both of these actions should only be possible when the thread pane is in threaded 
mode.

Comment 3

[m_mozilla]

I often find that in reply to someone's message, I need to forward a different
message to them. This generally drops the References: trail. It would be great
if I could drag their message into the References: header to restore that trail.

Alice sends message A to Bob asking
    do you still have that document from last week? I can't find my copy.
Bob reads message A
Bob has document from last week in message B1
Bob selects message B1 and hits 'forward'
Bob gets a message composition window for new message B2
    (message B1 is an attachment to message B2)
Bob drags message A into References: header in B2
Bob sends message B2
Alice receives message B2 and it is threaded under her A
    because the References: headers were appropriate.

I think it's a good idea, but maybe not something enabled by default
-matt

Comment 4

[Matej Cepl]

This is developed for mutt (of course :-). See patch
http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/index.php3#threads and
http://cedricduval.free.fr/download/index.php3#threads. Better description of UI
is in the mutt manual (http://mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#threads).

Cheers.

Matej

Comment 5

[Matej Cepl]

Sorry the link to mutt manual is non-sensical.

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

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