410458 - Automatically remove email addresses from body text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 368657

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Dotan Cohen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.11 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.9

In the rare instances where one must FWD an email that was forwarded to him, the email body contains the email addresses of all those to whom the email was addressed in the past. Forwarding an email like this is bad because all the future recipricants will then see all the previous email addresses, which leads to the proliferation of spam.

I propose a tool that would replace all email addresses in the email body with a text string ("--@--", "ADDRESS REMOVED", or similar) that indicates that there email addresses had been removed.


Example:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> To: [e-mail]
> Sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Payment by Western Union
>
> Don't worry, the payment
> was sent as planned.


Would become:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: --@--
> To: --@--
> Sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Payment by Western Union
>
> Don't worry, the payment
> was sent as planned.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[Dotan Cohen]

Thanks for marking the dupe. I did not find it when I searched. Sorry for the bandwidth.