408556 - replying or forwarding mails from outlook clients removes thread view and adds useless strings to subject line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194788

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Phil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Thunderbird Version 2.0.0.6 (20071022) - ubuntu Linux 7.10 and 2.0.0.9 on MacOSX

When replying to mails sent from localized mailers thunderbird adds Re: after the localized version of the "Re" thus leading to subject lines such as:
"Re: AW: AW: something in subject"

This destroy the threaded message view if the mail is replied again leading to 
"AW: Re: AW: AW: something in subject"

Same happens with forwarded messages that were forwarded to me giving a subject such as "Fwd: WG: Re: something".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply or forward an email from a Microsoft Outlook/Exchange/Novell client that doesn't use Re: Fwd: but localized versions such as AW: (german reply), WG: (german Fwd)



Expected Results:  
Replying to mails in threaded view should strip the subject line to contain only one Re: flag. "AW: AW: something in subject" will become "Re: something in subject" thus preserving the possibility to view all related messages in a threaded view.
The same should apply to forwarded messages: "Fwd: WG: Re: something" will become "Fwd: Re: something".



Maybe this problem arises with all localized versions and can be solved by adding a locale specific list of Re:/Fwd:-synonyms to be replaced automatically when replying or forwarding messages.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

For reply, set mailnews.localizedRe to a comma separated list of localized prefixes. Bug 319037 is about providing a default list for this.

For forward, no luck yet, it's bug 194788.