ReplyWithHeader Mozilla Add-on

ReplyWithHeader Mozilla (RWH) is Add-on for Thunderbird and Postbox (a.k.a extension) to bring Outlook style message headers while Reply/Reply All/Forward and few goodies to manage Message composition. RWH add-on is available for Apple Mail.app too.

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One version that works on Thunderbird and Postbox email client.

Download ReplyWithHeader v2.0

File Size: 67 kb, source

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Features

Completely manages and enables most important feature ‘Message Attribution’ for Reply, Reply All & Forward in the Thunderbird & Postbox.

Cleans up special internal email headers from Message Attribution
Provide special/meaningful email message separate of thin blue color line
Clean handling of header attribution [From, Subject, Date, To & Cc], rest are suppressed
Typography feature for message attribution (Headers) in-terms of Font Face, Font Size and Color
Message attribution sequence in-terms of From:, Sent:, To:, Cc: and Subject
First Name and Last Name used instead of quoted email address
Provides optional prefix transformation for Re: -> RE: and Fwd: -> FW:
Header line spaces option like before header, after header and before separator
Cleanup/Content formatting for block quotes and ‘>’ char

RWH Mozilla Donators

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Following RWH users contributed and supporting RWH development (of-course that’s me)

Date	Name	Amount	Donated Via
May 24, 2015	[Kept private as per user], CA, USA	$100.00	PayPal
Feb 11, 2016	Aj Lester, Western Australia, Australia	$10.00	PayPal
Nov 26, 2017	Hans Polling	$3.00	PayPal
Apr 08, 2017	Bytes, Inc	$10.00	PayPal
Apr 20, 2018	Christopher Miller	$25.00	PayPal
May 05, 2018	Ho Winston	$21.00	PayPal
Nov 14, 2018	Juerg Sommer	$5.00	PayPal
Dec 10, 2018	Hank Ausse	$10.00	PayPal
Dec 19, 2018	Unknown (I wish to know the name)	$10.00	PayPal

Compatibility Matrix

Mail Client Version	RWH v2.0	RWH v1.5
Thunderbird v60.*
Thunderbird v17.0 and below 56.*
Postbox 3., 4. and below 5.*

Known Issues

Following are the known issues of add-on:

Quick reply mode in the Postbox application is not yet supported

Add-on Installation

Instructions for Installing ReplyWithHeader Mozilla Add-on into Thunderbird & Postbox.

Thunderbird

Download and save the .xpi file to your hard disk
In Mozilla Thunderbird, open Add-ons from the Tools menu
From the options button next to the add-on search field, select Install Add-on From File... and locate the downloaded add-on from your hard disk
Now RWH Add-on is ready to use!

Postbox

Download and save the .xpi file to your hard disk
In Mozilla Thunderbird, open Add-ons from the Tools menu
From the options button (right most corner), select Install Add-on From File... and locate the downloaded add-on from your hard disk
Now RWH Add-on is ready to use!

Dave Avery
Hey there, I am very interested in this addon but the link to the XPI on Mozilla is down. Can you recommend an alternate?
- Jeevanandam M.
  @Dma550:disqus – Thanks. You can find it here. Github releases link https://github.com/jeevatkm/ReplyWithHeaderMozilla/releases
  Cheers,
  Jeeva
  - Dave Avery
    Thank you, downloaded and installed. I don’t see however a way to invoke it on Postbox 4.0.4, should there be an icon or menu item?
    - Jeevanandam M.
      Okay. Assume after successful installation you have restarted the postbox.
      Please use typical reply/reply all/forward to take advantage of RWH, but not quick reply. Since addon doesn’t support quick reply.
Neo
Hello, thanks for this addon. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for me in the latest Thunderbird. The header is completely removed from emails, and the subject prefix is not changed (Re: > RE:, Fwd > FW:). Any ideas?
dececk
Hi
how to translate the header attribution [From, Subject, Date, To & Cc] and the date format [Day & Month] in other language? Many thanks
- Jeevanandam M.
  @dececk:disqus – Currently add-on doesn’t support localization? However I’m planning to add in the future.
  RWH Mozilla Repo: https://github.com/jeevatkm/ReplyWithHeaderMozilla
  Cheers,
  Jeeva
PCA
Hi
Can you make a reply blue color like in Outlook?
Thanks
- Jeevanandam M.
  @disqus_KDDcqt00d0:disqus Thanks, it actually difficult to applying color for content. However I will give it on implementation.
  Cheers,
  Jeeva
  - PCA
    ok, thanks
andrealocatelli
Too early to say okay: in reply /forwards, header is okay, but replied/forwarded content is plain text instead of same format of the original. This is a very very bad issue!!!
- Jeevanandam M.
  @disqus_Mg0LFRhiMJ:disqus Thanks for reporting an issue. I need your help for analyzing the issue and I will fix it. I believe you have created an issue on Github https://github.com/jeevatkm/ReplyWithHeaderMozilla/issues/29 let’s interact via that thread.
  Cheers, Jeeva
Rowel Samuels
Working nicely with Thunderbird 60, thank you, so I’m very glad I found this add-on. There is one problem, though. I select the Local Timezone option (I am in the UK) in Header Date Format and, during summer, reply and forward headers quote the time as GMTST, which is correct. Now that we are no longer in daylight saving, the time still says GMTST, which is incorrect as it should automatically just say GMT at this period in the year. Is it possible to fix this, please?
- Jeevanandam M.
  Thank you for your appreciation. I’m aware of issues with timezone handling in some edge cases. I will try to improve it in the upcoming releases.
  Cheers, Jeeva
  - Rowel Samuels
    Thank you very much for your response, Jeeva. I look forward to an update in the future.
    Meanwhile, there is one other issue I’m having. When I reply to or forward a message whose subject is of the form “Re: xxxxx”, I notice that replywithheader removes the “Re:” from the quoted email’s subject. This could be confusing, as it might imply that the quoted email was the first in the conversation when it was actually a reply to an earlier email in the same conversation. I realise that some people might want to keep that behaviour, but it would be nice if it was at least an option to keep the original subject as it was received, with Re:, Fw:, or whatever, intact..
    Thank you again for a really useful add-on.
    Rowel
    - Jeevanandam M.
      There is a feature in the RWH add-on to replace Re: -> RE: and Fwd: -> FW: like outlook that option available in RWH preferences “Misc” tab. If you don’t want it you could safely un-check the check box to deactivate this feature.
      I’m wondering does add-on removes the Re: or replaces it. Could you please check and confirm?
      Cheers, Jeeva
      - Rowel Samuels
        Add on removed the Re in the quoted subject even with the option you suggest unticked.
        Cheers, Rowel
      - Jeevanandam M.
        Hmm, that might be a bug. I will check it out. Thanks for reporting it.
        Cheers, Jeeva
Jeevanandam M.
I’m sorry for the delayed response. Actually you have to use RWH v1.5 for TB 52.* and below. RWH v2.0 for TB 60.* It is due TB changed the addon’s internal implementation.
Cheers, Jeeva
RapidEyeMovement
In my Thunderbird 60.5.0 this extension causes constant CPU usage of around 10-15% after some time. I disabled it and Thunderbird CPU usage is back to 0%. What could be the cause?