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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0001797 | SOGo | Web Mail | public | 2012-05-10 01:41 | 2012-05-29 14:31 |
Reporter | whroberts | Assigned To | francis | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
Product Version | 1.3.14 | ||||
Target Version | 1.3.16 | Fixed in Version | 1.3.16 | ||
Summary | 0001797: Web mail handling of empty Subject | ||||
Description | It is not possible to send an email without a Subject. Perhaps the Thunderbird behaviour of asking "Are you sure you want to send without a subject?" would be more appropriate than preventing it from happening. If you read a mail with an empty subject, the subject is shown as "Untitled" which is not true. If you reply to such an email, the subject is pre-filled as "Re: (nil)" which is not true either. | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
A) Each email should have a subject. B) What shall it display, when there is no subject? C) Yes this really is a bug. it should either reply with |
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A) I disagree. It may be impolite to send a message without a subject but it is not the job of a mail client to force the inclusion of a subject. As far as I can tell from limited testing, the SOGo web mail client is unique in doing this. Thunderbird, Mac Mail, GMail, pine, mailx, squirrelmail all allow messages without a subject. Some of these clients ask "Are you sure you want an empty Subject?" but some don't. Surely the internet is about the freedom to do stuff like send emails without a subject :-) B) It should display nothing - like Thunderbird for example. It should definitely not alter the content of the subject header because this is misleading. If the content is null, that's what should be shown. C) I agree. I think it should be "Re:" (without the quotes) |
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We disagree on A), so let us see what others think, especially Invers. B) Now I understand you. Yes, it could/should be empty, if you allow empty subjects. We agree on C). |
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RFC 2822 Section 3.6.5 has Subject as an optional "Information field": |
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Good argument. |
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Fixed in revision 28cde64403e65a1ebeda3a984650fd31d8614f29 and f51ae70ff345179926dfdd4fd5856e968bdfc327. |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2012-05-10 01:41 | whroberts | New Issue | |
2012-05-10 12:33 | Christian Mack | Note Added: 0003879 | |
2012-05-11 04:15 | whroberts | Note Added: 0003885 | |
2012-05-11 07:57 | Christian Mack | Note Added: 0003886 | |
2012-05-13 23:57 | whroberts | Note Added: 0003898 | |
2012-05-14 07:05 | Christian Mack | Note Added: 0003899 | |
2012-05-22 17:07 | ludovic | Target Version | => 1.3.16 |
2012-05-29 14:31 | francis | Note Added: 0003979 | |
2012-05-29 14:31 | francis | Status | new => resolved |
2012-05-29 14:31 | francis | Fixed in Version | => 1.3.16 |
2012-05-29 14:31 | francis | Resolution | open => fixed |
2012-05-29 14:31 | francis | Assigned To | => francis |