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(See also the "How can this bring additional value for users?" question on [[Talk:Features/Thunderbird/Instant_messaging_in_Thunderbird|the discussion page]] for some related discussion and a few possible future use cases).
|Feature dependencies=* <del>Address book updates to support IM addresses for different networks (?)</del>* <del>Composing in a tab, so that potential IM activity indicators placed in the main UI stay visible. (?)</del>
|Feature requirements=* IM right from Thunderbird
* Manage contacts for email and IM in a single place.
====IM accounts management====
* The 'Account Settings...' dialog should let users configure settings of their IM accounts.
* An 'Add Instant Messaging Account...' menu item lets the user open a wizard to set up an IM account.
* no longer planned for the first version shipping with IM: <del>While setting up an email account, Thunderbird will attempt to detect if an IM account is likely associated with the email account (@gmail.com address? Existence of DNS SRV records pointing to an XMPP server for the domain?).</del>
** <del>If an IM account is found, the default action would be to configure Thunderbird to use it.</del>
** <del>It should be possible to opt-out from this behavior (checkbox "also use this account for instant messaging", checked by default?)</del>
====Address book integration====
