#2832 closed bug (fixed)
Mail Subject attribute uneditable
| Reported by: | humdinger | Owned by: | axeld |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1/beta2 |
| Component: | Applications/Tracker | Version: | R1/pre-alpha1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
Revision is hrev28069.
There's a TipServer tip stating:
"E-mail programs on most platforms let you change the subject line of a stored message, which is really important when you file messages in folders for long-term storage and future reference. Unfortunately, the "Mail Subject:" attribute is uneditable. While you can toggle it to editable in the FileTypes preferences panel, this for some reason still won't let you edit the attribute in the Tracker."
I just checked and it still holds true for Haiku. Is this a bug or a feature of Haiku's mail system?
I think one really should be able to edit a mail subject. How many mails have you got where the (totally incompetent :) ) other side forgot to set a subject? Besides, the original subject is still encoded in a mail's header.
Dunno, if it's a Tracker issue.
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comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
Can't say I really got the second paragraph... :) No matter. Is it an invalid bugreport or is there hope it will be fixed somehow. It's in no way a high priority, of course, I just think there are valid reasons to be able to rename a subject attribute. One could also consider to have Mail compare attribute and mail header and indicate that the original subject from the mail header is different.
comment:4 by , 15 years ago
I don't get it. Why would anyone want to edit the subject attribute? It makes no sense as the subject attribute is supposed to be the same as the Subject: header line in the email. I don['t think we should apply this patch.
comment:5 by , 15 years ago
Oh. Someohow I read the first reply as the ticket description. Well, I still won't use this because I think it is inconsistent use to be able to change the subject line in the attribute as it is supposed to be the subject set in the email. I don't really see myself using this feature (GMail, for example, does not allow you to change the subject) and I really think this is extrapolating something that should be done in a different way (maybe with a comment attribute or a label attribute or whatever).
comment:6 by , 15 years ago
I feel ambiguous about it myself. OTOH if there's no need (every subject is filled or one just don't care), the ability to change it won't impact your work with emails at all. I could image, if everything's OK most people don't even try to edit the subject.
But if there /is/ an important mail with a missing subject, it'd be nice if you could fill the subject and the mail will pop up when you make a query for it. Putting it into another attribute (comment/label) won't help if you look for a subject.
comment:8 by , 5 years ago
| Milestone: | R1 → R1/beta2 |
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Assign tickets with status=closed and resolution=fixed within the R1/beta2 development window to the R1/beta2 Milestone
Most mail attributes currently default to be non-editable for some reason (probably to keep them consistent with the mail itself; most attributes are just fields in the mail, and therefore duplicated).
But Tracker is an issue for itself, because it preserves the whole attribute data in its window (which is necessary when you unpack a folder with unknown attributes on another system). It just should look if the MIME type is installed locally, and always prefer most of the data from the system rather than the folder.