Bug 361719

Summary:	show mail sender MUA wen viewing a message
Product:	[Applications] trojita	Reporter:	Aleksandar Kostadinov <akostadinov>
Component:	Desktop GUI	Assignee:	Trojita default assignee <trojita-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	git
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Aleksandar Kostadinov 2016-04-13 13:35:34 UTC

Show sender MUA similar to thunderbird:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/display-mail-user-agent/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2016-04-13 15:32:33 UTC

You can inspect all headers of the mail (ctrl+u) where the "User-Agent" field is listed *iff* the sender MUA added that information.
I frankly fail to see why that out of all header fields should be exposed in the normal header display. You hardly ever care about that information.

Comment 2 Aleksandar Kostadinov 2016-04-13 15:51:17 UTC

Quick measure of sender intelligence :)
Might be a plug-in or optional. For example I learned about `trojita` only because I saw it as the MUA of a person that I respect.

Comment 3 Jan Kundrát 2016-04-13 18:21:59 UTC

Hi Aleksandar, thanks for this feature suggestion. I agree that the User-Agent could provide "interesting information", a piece of data which is important for curious people.

However, Trojita's design is aimed at not getting into the user's way that much, which means that we try to minimize the visual clutter. In addition to that, we also care about speed and minimal data transfers which means that we don't load all headers unless really needed. Right now, the User-Agent is only fetched when the user decides to show the e-mail headers or its source.

If you (or someone else) wants to implement this in a non-intrusive manner, patches are welcome. In the meanwhile, I'll close this bug as out-of-scope.