Closed Bug 59556 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

[RFE] Outlook features in Netscape/Mozilla mail

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement, P3)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: talvola, Assigned: scottputterman)

Details

As part of my personal goal to be able to effectively work in the office on a
non-Windows platform (i.e., Linux), I'd like to be able to use Mozilla as a mail
reader.  We are heavily standardized on Outlook as a mail client, and there are
a few scattered features, which may or may not be easy to implement, which would
make it much easier to use.


Examples (in comparing e-mails displayed in Mozilla Mail vs. Outlook 98):

1) HTML mail handling.  Maybe I'm being dense here - but when I send a message
from Outlook - generally it is a multi-part message with the first part being:

------_=_NextPart_001_01C049E5.C7923480
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"

and the second part being:

------_=_NextPart_001_01C049E5.C7923480
Content-Type: text/html;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Bug 40572 talks about converting incoming HTML e-mail to plain text. Bug 18427
is also similar.

What I'd like to see, in a case like the above e-mail, is that Mail lets me read
it in either plain text format, or HTML format - if the mail is in multiple
formats, why not let the user choose?  Or, set up some preferences to allow the
user to specify things.

2) Limited Outlook calendar support.  I realize that Netscape isn't trying to be
a full calendaring tool, but if you are in Outlook, you can send a meeting
request to seomeone.  It looks like:

------_=_NextPart_001_01C049E7.F1B52EF0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"

When: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:30 PM-5:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time
(US & Canada); Tijuana.
Where: test

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

------_=_NextPart_001_01C049E7.F1B52EF0
Content-Type: text/html;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>

blah blah blah...



In Netscape mail - you can read the When and Where just fine, but in Outlook
clients, you are presented with buttons allowing 'Accept', 'Tentative', and
'Decline', which send pre-formatted replies.  If you can't send those messages,
then you can't effectively use Netscape mail in an Outlook environment.

Not sure if all the details of the formats are documented or not.

3) Lots of other little things - again related to special M$ e-mail messages,
like Tasks, appointments, etc.

4) Attachments of Contact info.  If you drag a contact into an e-mail message in
Outlook, you get one of:

------_=_NextPart_000_01C049E0.1DC1F008
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Description: Test Smith

Message-ID: <69C7B7C01316D211B47E0008C7248296025B64A6@faultline.sapient.com>
To:
Subject: Test Smith
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:35:55 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"


if you just drag a 'Contact' into an e-mail message, or if you save a Contact as
a vCard and attach it as a file:

------_=_NextPart_000_01C049E0.1DC1F008
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
        name="Bob Smith.vcf"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="Bob Smith.vcf"

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Smith;Bob
FN:Bob Smith
NOTE:Birthday is 5/6/74
TEL;WORK;VOICE:(408) 123-1233
TEL;CELL;VOICE:(415) 123-1233
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:foo@foo.com
REV:20001109T000004Z
END:VCARD

which you would think would work, but doesn't directly because of the MIME type
of octet-stream, which just causes a pop-up window in mail.


Anyway, these should all probably be separate requests, but I wanted to put this
out there to see if anyone else was interested in being able to replace Outlook
with NS/Mozilla mail.
Yes, these should be separate requests.  I am marking this bug invalid; please
open separate bugs on the separate issues.

See bug 32629 for a discussion of the calendar feature; it seems that you are
not the only one who wants it.

In general, if you just want to float an idea the mozilla newsgroups
(http://www.mozilla.org/community.html) or the #mozillazine IRC channel on
irc.mozilla.org are the places to do it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Done - see Bug 59627 (which I think is more of a bug than an enhancement 
depending on what the MIME standard really says), and Bug 59630 and Bug 59631 
for the handling of special Outlook messages and contact attachments, which are 
more clearly enhancements of some priority.



VERIFIED INVALID per new bugs filed.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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