Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#1485258 new Feature Requests

On reply, truncate subject prefix in foreign languages

Reported by: abaum Owned by:
Priority: 5 Milestone: later
Component: Core functionality Version: 0.2-alpha
Severity: minor Keywords: subject prefix translation
Cc:

Description

There are a lot of misconfigured mail clients (e.g. MS Outlook) out there who use wrong, non-english subject prefixes (e.g. the german edition of Outlook uses "AW:" instead of "Re:"). Now, if you reply on such a mail, the subject will become "Re: AW: Subject" instead of "Re: Subject". Other mail clients can detect this.
We could make an additional entry in the translation files and truncate the wrong prefix.

Change History (3)

comment:1 follow-up: Changed 5 years ago by thomasb

What mail clients do detect this? However this shouldn't be very hard to fix.

comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 5 years ago by abaum

Replying to thomasb:
Mozilla Thunderbird. But not as standard behaviour (as I thought), but only if activated in user.js:

user_pref("mailnews.localizedRe", "AW,Antwort");

The localized entries are comma separated.

comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by alec

Patch for German attached in #1485530 (marked as duplicate)

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