570881 - make email message sticky to stay on-top of all other mails until "un-stuck" again

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 503064

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Lee Binder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4

right-click a particular important mail, click onto "make sticky". This mail will then stay on-top of the other mails and also have a different color according to the sticky preferences. After having replied to it at some point, one right clicks it again and clicks "un-stick", which will turn it back into a default email (back into default sort order, no color).

Reproducible: Always




Reason: on some days I get so many mails in my different accounts that I cannot always answer them right away, resulting in even important mails scooting down the list too much.

I know that I can mark a message as important etc. and then change the sort order accordingly, but that's a work-around. I would be much more efficient and very very convenient not to mess with sort order.

Also filed at https://forums.addons.mozilla.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1196&p=3097

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

nice idea.
also seen at http://gsfn.us/t/idfr

Comment 3

[Robert]

It looks like Google made this in new mail app Inbox. To bad Thunderbird never implemented it after I reported it to wishlist 6 years ago.

Comment 6

[beeblebrox666]

Why is mozilla just passing the buck on this... this bug says duplicate of 503064, if you go to that bug you see... 
	Jim Porter (:squib)	-
Updated • 26 minutes ago
Duplicate of this bug: 570881, this is a cyclic pass the buck...how about an actual resolution instead!

Comment 7

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

That's how Bugzilla works. If one bug was marked as a dupe of the other, both bugs are annotated with information about that. You can tell that bug 503064 isn't resolved as a dupe because, well, the status isn't "RESOLVED".

However, if you're hoping for a resolution in terms of a patch for this being landed, I wouldn't hold my breath. There are quite a lot of open bugs in Thunderbird and not a whole lot of developers actively working on it. I'm just trying to clean up some of the backlog of duplicate bugs in this component.