456841 - messagereader: evaluate order of message headers in "show details" view

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[David Ascher (:davida)]

Two viewpoints from bug 449691:

> For instance, (keeping in mind that e-mail is more prevalent than newsgroups.)
> I suspect that most users will much more often correspond with the same person
> about multiple topics, rather than multiple persons corresponding about the
> same topic. Thus, the subject is more relevant than the sender.

and:

> I have the opposite impression. I rarely discuss several topics at once with
> the same person in different but parallel conversations (except in mailing
> lists & newsgroups, but see below); when I get something from my lawyer, or
> from my special friend from across the world, the subject she chose is
> immaterial, what imports to me is, "Ah! it's from her!"

Comment 1

[Peter Lairo]

This bug should be a duplicate of bug 456828.

Someone please dupeme.

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- *what* is being talked about is more important than *who* is talking.
- Thunderbird has had the Subject in the first line forever (regression)

all this should now be discussed in bug 456828.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

I'm not convinced it's a dupe, but if you insist I can resolve bug 456828 as a

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

...dupe of this one (darn quick-typing and hitting the wrong key).

Comment 4

[buovjaga]

bug 456828 was wontfixed
bug 465138 was fixed

Let's close this.