85078 - "Sent" not consistent with "Unsent Messages"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 387656

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

The title says it all. The "Sent" folder is not consistent with the "Unsent
Messages" folder name.

I propose we rename "Unsent Messages" to "Outbox" because:

1. It's an outbox icon
2. That would be more consistent with the opposite - "Inbox"
3. Other email clients names it that way

Jglick, does it make sense to you?

Comment 1

[timeless]

i don't like it because to me outbox implies that a mail carrier can collect 
the mail whenever it feels like it, whereas unsent messages means messages 
which i haven't decided to give to the mail carrier.

Comment 2

[André Dahlqvist]

I have also reacted over this inconsistency. I don't think a plain "Unsent"
would be unreasonable.

Comment 3

[Steve Chapel]

Attachment: Patch to change Unsent Messages folder to Unsent folder in UI

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this will require a= from jglick and/or robinf.

currently, we match the spec.

see http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/threepane/

Comment 5

[jglick]

If Robin approves, "Unsent" is ok with me.

Comment 6

[robinf]

No objection to changing "Unsent Messages" to "Unsent".

Comment 7

[André Dahlqvist]

Can we get some comments from the reviewers?

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

there's more than just a few places we need to fix:

just in base/resources/locale/en-US alone:

base/resources/locale/en-US/messenger.dtd:<!ENTITY sendUnsentCmd.label "Send
Unsent Messages">
base/resources/locale/en-US/messenger.dtd:<!ENTITY folderContextSendUnsentMessag
es.label "Send Unsent Messages...">
messenger.properties:sendingUnsent=Sending Unsent Messages
messenger.properties:unsentFolderName=Unsent Messages
msgSynchronize.dtd:<!ENTITY sendMessage.label "Send Unsent messages">
offline.properties:sendMessagesLabel=Would you like
to send the messages in your Unsent Messages folder once you are online?"

I'm sure compose has some.

about that patch, you don't want to mess with the special folder foo (or the
uri, but you didn't)

let's leave this alone for now.  not a big win.

Comment 9

[André Dahlqvist]

I'd like to see this change happen, so I will grep through the tree and change this.

Seth, can you explain why the "Unsent Messages" should not be changed to
"Unsent" in the code that involves special folders?

Comment 10

[André Dahlqvist]

Another question, should stuff like "Send Unsent Messages" really be changed?
"Unsent messages" in that sentense refers to the messages themselves, not the
Unsent Message folder.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

André are you still gonna pick this up?

Comment 12

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This is getting fixed in bug 387656 (if the patch is wanted).