593439 - Capability to Redirect E-mail Messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12916

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100701 SeaMonkey/2.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2

My 13-year-old version of Eudora has a Redirect capability.  If I redirect an E-mail message, the message appears not quoted but as sent.  The Subject line also appears without a Re: or Fwd: (unless that was in the original message).  The From: line shows the original sender's address followed with "by way of [my address]" in parentheses.  

Thus, when I redirect an E-mail message, my recipient sees the message the way I saw it when I received it.  However, (1) I can edit the message, inserting, changing, or deleting content; and (2) my recipient sees both the original sender and me in the From: line.  

I am requesting this capability in Thunderbird.  


Reproducible: Always




This is NOT the same as forwarding inline.  Forwarding inline shows the original message appended to a new message with Fwd: inserted into the Subject: line and only my address in the From: line.