Is there a way to rename received messages in Thunderbird?

September 29, 2005 11:05 AM

Is there a way to rename received messages in Thunderbird? I sometimes receive e-mails with uninformative Subject lines, and I'd like to be able to enter a more informative Subject for easier browsing. If not, are other mail clients capable of doing this?
posted by russilwvong to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Outlook Express allows you to edit messages (on my Mac at least)
posted by bonaldi at 11:21 AM on September 29, 2005

Drag the message into 'drafts' and then open it, you can also right click and 'edit as new' which makes a copy.
posted by Lanark at 11:52 AM on September 29, 2005

For the record, this is really easy in Lotus Notes (just double-click to edit), but I wouldn't suggest switching to that software.
posted by smackfu at 12:45 PM on September 29, 2005

I only know about the "draft" option someone mentioned earlier. Completely inefficient.

Outlook lets you do this very easily by simply clicking in the subject...no "editing" or "drafts" or any of that jazz.

There, I said it, Microsoft is king of email! Sorry!
posted by suchatreat at 2:18 PM on September 29, 2005

Response by poster: Thanks, everyone.
posted by russilwvong at 2:53 PM on September 29, 2005

Tagging will come to email soon. Promise. The next version of Thunderbird will have it, but the latest betas I've seen of MS Outlook 2kX, don't. But they may.
posted by zpousman at 9:45 AM on September 30, 2005

Eudora lets you do this, at least on Mac.
posted by edjusted at 11:26 AM on September 30, 2005