Closed Bug 73413 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

implement view all headers for new message header display

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P2)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla0.9.7

People

(Reporter: mscott, Assigned: mscott)

References

Details

Attachments

(2 files, 1 obsolete file)

updated diff against 105553
13.43 KB, patch
bugzilla
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sspitzer
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I have to implement view all headers with the new header display. Once I land
the new display this view isn't going to work anymore. I have to re-implement
it. Hopefully the new version will have linkified header fields too.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: -- → P2
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9
*** Bug 73651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Keywords: nsbeta1
Whiteboard: [nsbeta1+]
*** Bug 73720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9 → mozilla0.9.1
*** Bug 74724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 75276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 77305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Quickie: Why was the header display changed?
I'm pretty sure it was so he could fit the new attachments tree/window in there
(we now have one collapsible window instead of two).
Could the new version please have either
a) Selectable (and therefore copyable) fields, or:
b) Right click context menus with a "Copy" option

or both? :-) Not being able to copy headers is a pain. There's probably a bug. 
You probably know about it anyway. But there it is :-)

Gerv
I don't like the whole static header thing. That takes away valuable screen real
estate, and should scroll away like it did in Netscape 4. I should probably open
a new bug for this, but most of my bugs seem to have been ignored by Netscape
(AOL has had an effect on them, I can tell...).
SkewerMZ, there is already a bug on "headers scrolling with the body".
I probably have no say in what goes but I second Gerv's request to make the
message header window "selectable (and therefore copyable)". Other than that
keep up the good work.

Ayo
*** Bug 78535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 79430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 79519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 49152
Blocks: 49197
Blocks: 49305
mscott,

if you want to linkify even the text in the Subject, Organization line etc.
(i.e. you don't want to use special knowledge about headers like you do in the
normal header display of the msg pane), you could just run the whole headers
through ScanTXT. Let me know, if you need any help.

Please make sure that bug 49305 does not exist in the new implementation. (I'm
pointing that out, because it probably influences the implementation in a basic
way.)
WEIRD stuff. I turned on my computer this morning and SOME of the emails
were showing the FULL headers i was looking for , in "normal header" mode!
This really needs a big fix... Also some crashes this morning, when clicking
on an email in the trash, mozilla crashed.
Also the first time i started mozilla this morning, it would not start, crashed.
I used the talkback thingie on the trash mail crash.
*** Bug 79654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
moving to 0.9.2
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.1 → mozilla0.9.2
QA Contact: esther → fenella
*** Bug 82707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 83454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
10 dups. Marking mostfreq.
Keywords: mostfreq
adding PDT+
Whiteboard: [nsbeta1+] → [nsbeta1+][PDT+]
*** Bug 85120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 39679
*** Bug 86509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
moving to 0.9.3
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.2 → mozilla0.9.3
Whiteboard: [nsbeta1+][PDT+] → [nsbeta1+]
*** Bug 88096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***





Lol, somebody do what i requested above. I dont have permission :(
Go to securityfocus.com and subscribe to bugtraq
Switch to digest list method (gets all mails into a big one)
When you receive the messages, you will see the full mail headers below
*** Bug 88096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 88519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 88628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 88728 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 90108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
moving to 0.9.4
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.3 → mozilla0.9.4
*** Bug 92332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adding some keywords. This is one of the main reasons I still use 4.x regularly.
Because spammers really piss me off, I frequently report them to abuse desks.
Everytime I want to do this, I have to quit, launch 4.x, log into mail again...
really annoying.
Keywords: 4xp, nsdogfood
Brian: Why don't you use View -> Message Source. At least in Windows it allows
copying via the context menu.

Actually it's even better than 4.* View -> All Headers
<offtopic>
Brian, you can still report spammers from Mozilla - just forward your spam to
spamcop@spamcop.net and use their spam reporting engine (you'll get an e-mail
wil a URL each time you forward spam to spamcop@spamcop.net). It will also help
you to find the right abuse desk(s) fast.</offtopic>
View -> Message Source does indeed work. Cool!

And thanks, I'm already acquainted with SpamCop.
In version 0.9.1 (Progeny distributed deb's), choosing view->headers->all is
either ignored or causes immediate crash.
*** Bug 93940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 94172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 94547 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Nominating nsenterprise.
Keywords: nsenterprise
*** Bug 94985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mail news triage meeting --> .9.5
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.4 → mozilla0.9.5
*** Bug 95417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Another solution is to allow a right click to select "View Source" while the
message in the the message pane...

Currently, in order to get that option you have to open the message in a
seperate window and then select "View Source"

To view the message source from the pane, you can use the Mailer's menu (View >
Message Source), or type Control-U.
No, you only have to click ctrl-u in the message
*** Bug 96730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Removing nsenterprise nomination.
Keywords: nsenterprise
QA Contact: fenella → laurel
*** Bug 97788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just spotted some even stranger behavior. If you choose View Headers > All and
open a message with another message attached, the attached message will display
all the headers, but they will be the headers for the main message, not the
attached message!
*** Bug 97872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
wow.. this one seems popular.. I really like this feature of NS 4.x..

You have my vote for the most important RFE :)

Tommy
*** Bug 101643 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 102395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 102904 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
hopefully this milestone for sure =).
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.5 → mozilla0.9.6
*** Bug 103701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 104166
moving to 0.9.7
Keywords: nsbeta1
Whiteboard: [nsbeta1+]
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.6 → mozilla0.9.7
So this has been getting moved since 0.9.1
Why dont you just mark it as future? Less spam that way, and when someone
actually fixes this, then the TM can be changed
Or better yet, fix it!
I know it may not seem critical, but I don't understand why it would
be that hard to implement.  And, to just keep moving it one milestone out
each time is very frustrating to those of us that want this bug fixed...
Yeah... I must say I'm confused this isn't allready resolved...
Not that I have any clue as to what needs be done, but it certainly can't be
_that_ difficult? or does fixing this bug mean having to summon forth a lesser
demon or some such?
Unfortunately, there are 3500+ mailnews bugs. Some are more important than this
and others are less important.  The fact that this bug is hanging around from
milestone to milestone shows that it's more important than about 3300+ of the
bugs.  However, there are other things that need to be fixed first.
To fix this bug, they only need to increase the size of the "subject" section of
the window a little bit so they could fit the headers. And the headers are of
course already in the mail database, they appear when you view the mail source
(ctrl-u)
32 dupes.  48 votes.  58 CCs.
Feature regression.
And printing get you full headers...
in fact why not link view header menu item to view source cmd for now and then
the feature works and we can leave it till there is more time to add this feature???
assuming my XBL changes for 10553 are checked in then this patch implements a
first cut for view all headers. I still need to do some work to make it look
"prettier". Right now the justification is a little off for headers with long
names but that can be spun into another bug.
Depends on: 105553
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Once I land this patch, I then need to "beautify" the display of view all
headers. This means coming up with a solution so all the header names are right
justified against the width of the longest header name. I filed 106358 to keep
track of this issue.


    
    

    
  
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rudimentary view all headers has just been checked in.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED

    
    

    
  
In today's build my information bar just says "attachments" and is pretty much
stuck in place. I think the problem may be related to the fix for this bug.

Furthermore, the problem still exists that when you view all headers, attached
messages' headers are copied from the parent message. Forward a few e-mails to
yourself and see what happens.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---

    
    

    
  

      
      
      
      

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The new problem: WFM with 2001102409 on WindowsME.

Skewer: what OS are you using?

And more generally: I believe you should have opened a new bug leaving here a
comment about its possible relationship to this one. One of the reasons is that
the original problem was an All/All one and this is probably OS dependent.

    
    

    
  
reclosing because the bug described here is fixed. view all headers is now on
again in the trunk. Please file a new bug for your platform for the missing
message headers. Also list what build ID you are using and what platform it's
on. Thanks Skewer!
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED

    
    

    
  
What about 'Received' fields? Current behaviour is that only 1 Received field is
displayed. The rest are stripped out. Is this the desired behaviour?

    
    

    
  
Skewer: I saw exactly the same problem with 2001102403 (alt3-pane view). After
changing to normal3pane-restarting-alt3pane-restarting, problem disappeared. Try
this before filing a new bug. 

    
    

    
  
I was hit Skewer's problem this morning. Deleting component.reg saved the day. 

And yes, there is a bug on this: bug 106461. I reopened it today before I find
the component.ref solution but now it should probably  be marked invalid.

    
    

    
  
Should we split off the problem with the main message's headers being displayed
on attached (forwarded) messages? I commented about this earlier but it was not
fixed by the patch.

    
    

    
  
Please, pretty please, make the text in the headers selectable so we can copy
text to the clipboard! This is pretty basic stuff and was in ns 4.x
Should i post a new bug for this? Or can we use bug 106358 for that?
We need this!



    
    

    
  
Can't select text in message headers is bug 61497.

    
    

    
  
we already have a bug for selection in the message pane. XUL does not support
this yet. When it does, we'll be first in line I promise.

    
    

    
  
Another thing: Things get *very* messy if the length of the headers is longer
than the maximum space available to the preview pane/message window, which under
the circumstances is very conceivable. Perhaps there should be some sort of
scrolling behavior to prevent this. I have an e-mail where only the very first
line is visible when all headers are displayed, and this is with a substantial
number of Received: headers not being displayed. This is when my computer is
running in 1024x768x32bpp and Mozilla is maximized. I really think that the
static nature of the header bar and full headers are incompatible with each other.

Besides that, if I View>Headers>All, then open a message window, that message
window will display all the headers but in the menu "Normal" is selected.

I'm not going to reopen this a second time at the moment, but it's *very* tempting.

    
    

    
  
What doesn't XUL support that it should?  If the text should be copyable, it
should be in a readonly textbox (styled to look just like it does now if so
desired).

    
    

    
  
Francisco: If you want the Copy capability use View -> Message Source (or
Ctrl-U) as a workaround.

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 108228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
OK using nov2 commercial trunk build: win98, mac OS X, linux rh6.2

Marking this bug verified: Implementation in and basically working. Any specific 
issues with View All Headers will be logged separately.  One main bug is bug 
106358 for display issues with View All Headers.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 133936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Browser → Seamonkey

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