488479 - Make it easier to add keywords and the keyword header

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Dominique De Vito]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
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AFAIK, while it's possible to attach tags for received emails, it's not possible to send emails with attached tags!

The window for composing emails do not propose to attach tags with emails that users want to send!



Reproducible: Always




Emails could have associated header fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Header_fields

Some header fields are more standard than the others: see http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/perm-headers.html

The "Keywords" email's header field looks like quite interesting, because it may enable to attach tags to an email following a standard attachment, before sending that email. So, using one or another standard header field, users may able to receive and send emails with attached tags (following a standard attachment). 

I see multiple advantages:
(1) it would help for classifying emails, and following conversations.
(2) it could inspire people for ideas about email evolution and use cases

And more than that,
(3) it would provide Thunderbird a differentiated added-value that may attract new users.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This is doable thru http://kb.mozillazine.org/Custom_headers.
 And yes there is no UI for it. I'm pretty sure this as already been requested.

Comment 2

[Dominique De Vito]

OK, it's doable.

But in order to raise TB at the next upper level, beyond email client, starting to be another kind of collaboration tool, TB should support send/receive tag attachment with 0-cost, almost 0-installation-or-configuration, and easy-to-use UI.

This is quite an important opportunity, in order to provide a differentiated feature, and IMHO there is few like that.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Je suis d'accord. Still I think there is already a bug about this. would be nice if you could find it so we could close this bug as a duplicate.

Comment 4

[Dominique De Vito]

While searching an existing bug before posting this enhancement, I have not found any related bug. Sounds being no duplicate, but I am gonna do another search.

Comment 5

[Dominique De Vito]

This enhancement request is related, but not identical!, to:
"Automatically tag replies to a tagged message"
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367406

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This enhancement request is related, but not identical!, to:
> "Automatically tag replies to a tagged message"
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367406

Thanks for searching again. Confirming RFE

Comment 7

[Dominique De Vito]

It's about starting to add folksonomy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy - to Thunderbird.

It might open perspectives/use cases. I have just found one, but one may find other ones.

use case:
- user A: create an email with attached tags, like a tag 'Business Intelligence'
- user B: receive this email, but he/she don't know about BI. One TB extension could give the possibility to take tags as arguments and to search on Internet (e.g. Wikipedia), or into a corporate knowledge database.