On reply, truncate subject prefix in foreign languages

[rcubetrac]

Reported by abaum on 8 Aug 2008 08:18 UTC as Trac ticket #1485258

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.

Keywords: subject prefix translation
Migrated-From: http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485258

[rcubetrac]

Comment by @thomascube on 8 Aug 2008 15:54 UTC

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

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Comment by abaum on 9 Aug 2008 17:42 UTC

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.

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Comment by @alecpl on 29 Oct 2008 18:24 UTC

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

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Comment by @alecpl on 29 May 2014 07:40 UTC

If we add this to localization files, that would mean we can only remove prefixes for current user language (and English). I'm not sure it's what we want to do, because user can receive messages with prefixes in other languages.

So, a better solution is to have a list of most common (I'm not sure we can/should have all) prefixes. That list might be configurable or enabling of that feature might be configurable. There most likely be two lists one for Re: and one for Fwd:.

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Comment by abaum on 30 May 2014 14:14 UTC

I agree that it's not a good idea adding this to the localization files (although it was my idea ;). Why not simple use the patch from #1485530, adding also abbreviations from other languages?

[frontierpsycho]

I encountered this bug, it's quite annoying. Are there any plans to work on it?

If not, if I find time I'll look into it.

[alecpl]

Configuration options implemented.

A future scope might be to make these options available to the end-user via Preferences > Composing messages > Advanced options. Pull requests would be appreciated. @tpayen maybe, you?