thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Refactor: Message Composer
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Since Apr 4, 2025.
type: enhancement
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- Kotlin
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Description
🎯The objective
The HTML parsing for sending emails needs improvement. We need better and more consistent ways to hook into the sending process, to enable features such as HTML signatures
🎒Resources
ℹ️ List all relevant resources like BugZilla meta bugs, Figma files, Notion links and other files.
🦮Rules of the Road
ℹ️ Initial definition of requirements and limitations, the scope of this feature and other potential considerations in order to keep the project narrow and focused.
🟢In Scope
- Make use of JSoup for HTML parsing across the board
- Overhaul the way the HTML of the original message is modified to create the new message when replying
- Overhaul the way the HTML of the original message is modified to create the new message when forwarding
🔴Out of Scope
- TODO
🚧Technical and/or Business Requirements
Engineering Tasks
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