Bug 255379

Summary:	External editor: provide option to include headers into mail
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Christoph Lange <langec>
Component:	composer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.9.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Christoph Lange 2010-10-27 09:53:16 UTC

Version:           1.13.5 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

When setting up an external editor, there should be an option to include the mail headers into the text file.  Other mail clients, e.g. mutt, do that, and there are editors that can handle headers (e.g. syntax highlighting).  Advantage: you can e.g. change the subject while composing the mail, you don't forget to whom you are writing, etc.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:37:01 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 2 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-18 23:50:29 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2

Comment 3 Christoph Lange 2012-08-19 09:28:07 UTC

In the kmail version that comes with KDE 4.9.0 (Is this kmail2?) such an option still doesn't exist.

Let me add another advantage of being able to edit headers in an external editor: You can write macros in the external editor, which do certain things based on information in the header, e.g. the receipient of the mail.