78095 - Different reply intro lines for email and news

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Holger Metzger]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010428
BuildID:    2001042820

Mail and news should have different reply intro lines. Right now it's the
standard "Author wrote:", but I think mail and news are different enough to
require specialized intro lines.

A reply by email should have the date in it, so that the recipient can refer to
it more easily: "On <date>, you wrote:" Where date should be displayed in +/-
GMT date/time.

A news reply doesn't require the date in the intro line, since most people read
news in threaded mode, so the good old "<Author> wrote:" should suffice.

A forwarded news posting should have something like this: "Found this
<message-id> in <group>:"  (blatantly stolen from Xnews :) )

A forwarded mail should look something like this: "On <date>, <Author> wrote:"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. writing email / news
...

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

I implemented "On <date&time>, <author> wrote:" a few weeks ago. However, I
can't turn it on by default or make it a visible pref yet due to localization
issues. When those issues are resolved, it shouldn't be that hard to fix this. 

Seth, Ducarroz and Nhotta can you guys elaborate (and possibly fix the
dependencies) what is left to fix before we can start hacking on this and
turning on the new, cool reply-line by default?

Comment 2

[Holger Metzger]

Yes, I saw that new line when I checked out the mailnews.js. I even have it
enabled. Nice work :)
One thing: As I see it, the date is displayed in local time only, which can be a
bit confusing, wouldn't it be better if the time is displayed in GMT date/time?

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

I completely agree with you. Look in bug 75377 which now blocks this for the
reason why we (a) didn't turn this on by default (b) haven't yet made it a UI
pref and (c) made it work with GMT time (localizable).

I'll leave ducarroz to comment on the progress of bug 75377.

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** Bug 147491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[u32858]

This seems quite an old bug report, is anyone working on a patch for this?
JG

Comment 6

[Sheela Ravindran]

reassing ->meehansqa