744635 - should hide news-specific Followup-To: and Newsgroup: addressing options if no nntp account set up (and the other way around for mail)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 399446

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Hauer]

I'd love a preference to simply hide the following recipient addressing options:

  Reply-To:
  Newsgroup:
  Followup-To:

I know what the first one does, but never have used it.  I don't even know what the others do, and have never used them either.

Normally, extra things that I don't use don't bother me.  But in addressing an e-mail, my routine is such:

1. Type initial recipient.  Press Enter.
2. Press Shift-Tab to focus the new recipient's addressing type (is there a better term for this?).
3. Press up and down arrow to find the option I want.  I only ever want To:, Cc:, or Bcc:.  But, oh no, I pressed the wrong direction and here is Followup-To or Reply-To and I become sad and spend needless milliseconds wondering "What does Followup-To even mean?"

It's a small pet peeve, but it would make my day to be able to never run into those options again.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

yes those are newsgroup specific

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Was fixed in bug 399446