Georg Brandl Reporter
	Description • 21 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

It should be possible to add a custom header (such as X-No-Archive: Yes) in the
composing window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

	Andreas Krüger
	Comment 1 • 21 years ago

This would be useful in other situations, too.

For an example, see http://www.de.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#xcc

	Andreas Krüger
	Comment 2 • 21 years ago

Over at bug 229462, there is a little bit of discussion:
How should the functionality be made accessible, in terms of GUI?

I suggest the "options" top level menu of the "Compose Message" window.

Whatever is done, I think it would be good to do present the
functionality consistently here, when bug 229462 gets fixed
and also when bug 216132 gets fixed.

	Andreas Krüger
	Comment 3 • 21 years ago

Ooops! Sorry, I have the numbers mixed up.

Somewhat of a discussion is at bug 227265.  This, bug 227265 and bug 216132
should provide their functionality in a consistent way GUI-wise.

	Todd Warner
	Comment 4 • 21 years ago

For reference, I am using: Thunderbird v0.6 (20040607) on a Red Hat Linux 9 box.

Not sure it it matters at all, but here's another vote for this feature. But for
outgoing email, not just news (I have barely used the news reader btw).

Evolution does not do this (last I checked) and they seemed uninterested when I
asked someone if they had planned to add it. Pine can do it. Mutt can do it. I
am sure Gnus can do it. The GUI clients seem to be avoiding it, though I
consider it a fairly obvious requirement for a fully featured email client.

Anyway... I would love to see it added and would be a differentiator from the
Evolution competition (though not an obvious one).

If you hadn't guessed, I am a linux user.

	Robert Harvey
	Comment 5 • 21 years ago

I'd like to be able to do this too.

From my point of view, I'd like to be able to attach custom headers to
identites, so that when I select a name to post under, I also decide whether I
want my words googling or not. So the gui issue  becomes another tab in the
identity dialogue - a plain multi-line box into which any text at all can be typed.

There are forum posts about adding headers to identities using prefs.js:
  http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=70975
  http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=57209
But I cannot make this work in 0.7.1 on XP.  The additional header is never
generated.  I don't know if this remark should be a separate bug?

	Mike Cowperthwaite
	Comment 6 • 19 years ago

For headers that you want added all the time (e.g. X-No-Archive), see:
  http://ilias.ca/mozilla/mailnewsfaq/XNoArchive.html

For headers that you want to add on demand, place the header names, separated by commas and no whitespace, into
  mail.compose.other.header
Then when you open a compose window, in the addressing fields you can open the dropdown and select the header(s) from there.

This is considered a fairly advanced feature and Thunderbird's approach is to minimize UI, so I think it unlikely that there will be UI support for these prefs.  However, it would be relatively simple to create an extension to 
provide UI for them.