thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Refactor: Message Composer

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Since Apr 4, 2025.

type: enhancement
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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

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