I just found the new extension (as of Sept. 2011) "editemailsubject" (must be typed as written, without blanks, in Thunderbird's extensions search). It allows to edit the subject displayed in the mailbox window while preserving the subject in the message header. Exactly what I was looking for.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490935 Title: it is not possible to modify email subject Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Microsoft Outlook allows to modify "subject" of incoming emails. This is very very useful, especially when sender used a meaningless subject, or a simple dot. This feature should be very useful also in Thunderbird. Thanks a lot ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: c44b5fa992c605c204076ccbc3a738b7 CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1 Date: Tue Dec 1 18:36:54 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: mozilla-thunderbird (not installed) ProcEnviron: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/490935/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
