Just installed Thunderbird, and when creating a new account it asks for
my mailaddress. The default is: "thijs@(none)". Well, it guessed my
username right, but the domain could also have easily been read from the
/etc/mailname file. That would make my full mail address completely
autodetected, would be very nice!

I hope this can be incorporated into a next version of the package.

Thanks,
Thijs

# 358680: thunderbird: Play new mail sound without hanging Thunderbird.
forwarded 358680 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250186

# 363816: mozilla-thunderbird: "columns to display" should include "Date Received"
forwarded 363816 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216033

# 363817: mozilla-thunderbird: Add an "empty folder" option in Junk folder
forwarded 363817 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189911

# 363818: mozilla-thunderbird: news - Impossible to sort messages by 'Labels'
# contains two issues ... cloning and forwarding auto labelling issue
clone 363818 -1
retitle -1 Auto-labelling of messages by inheritance
forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207124

# 363819: mozilla-thunderbird: Thunderbird should allow creating custom header fields
# -> use extensions for this.
tags 363819 + wontfix

# 363821: mozilla-thunderbird: add SSL/TLS option to account wizard
forwarded 363821 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221030

# 363822 mozilla-thunderbird: Thunderbird uses wrong preference directory
# ... I just wontfix unless comes up with a migration patch ( p<0.00001 )!
tags 363822 + wontfix

# 363824: mozilla-thunderbird: Can't change accounts order
# ... this is of course long known upstream.
forwarded 363824 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61078

# 363823: mozilla-thunderbird: Add an option for "check for mail in all folders"
# this is a non issue I guess; however, an individual button will not be implemented
tags 363823 + wontfix

# 363825: mozilla-thunderbird: Should use /etc/mailname in setting up a new account
# this i far too unix specific that one might suggest this upstream ... so wontfix
tags 363825 + wontfix

# 363828 mozilla-thunderbird: default mail headers should also show "resent-from" and "resent-date"
# there is not enough space for making this default ... closing this bug.
tags 363828 + wontfix
close 363828

# 363834: mozilla-thunderbird: thunderbird should provide news-reader VP
# ... yes will add this ... tagging confirmed!
tags 363834 + confirmed

thanks


I changed your bugs state for housekeeping. Look above for a short
explanation what happened to your bug ... and remember to not cc all
bugs listed in current CC.


 - Alexander

Hello Alexander,

I'm not really sure I agree with you... you needn't submit it upstream,
but Debian has an established tradition of making its packages work as
good as possible with respect to Debian-specific things. That's why
quite some other packages use /etc/mailname to guess such things, and
they use a Debian-specific patch for it.

Can't Thunderbird have a Debian-specific patch for this?

thanks,
Thijs

If you come up with such a patch, I would be happy to apply it.


 - Alexander

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