Moreover, it would be nice if there would be an option that attachements would not already be loaded when selecting a message but only when the attachement is selected for download or opening.
== Server side mail filter support ==
I think that integration with server side mail filter will be a real good thing. The integration will use the existing filter wizard and a checkbox indicate that the rule will be stored on the server. The checkbox is active only when a server protocol is supported.
The Cyrus Sieve via timsieved can be the first system to be integrated.
--[[User:Malix|Malix]] 18:57, 14 Jan 2006 (PST)
A further enhancement to this implementation would be to automatically parse any server side script (either Thunderbird generated or otherwise) to see which folders are destinations for server side filters. Thunderbird could then automatically check these folders for new mail messages. This would suppliment the ability for a user to manually specify which folders to check via the folder properties dialog. It may be that some users would not like this feature and so it should be a user option e.g. "Check filter destinations for new mail".
--[[User:Coling|Coling]] 22:25, 25 Jan 2006 (GMT)
== Marking archive folder to contain sent messages ==
Allowing to decide whether an e-mail message should be archived at all, striping off the attachments and filing it with appropriate labels (ideally obtained by a bayesian filter) should help. However the whole concept of having a sent folder could be replaced by a fixed label called "sent" vs. "received", so that the messages could be filed together with the other messages in a conversation stream instead.
==Merging "Message Filter"-entries / creating rules from multiple messages==
Just select e.g. 2 messages and select the menu "create filter from message".
Would also be nice if you could select 2 (or more) filter entries and make one of them. --[[User:AliB|aliB]]
==Setting an other folder as Trash folder==
This feature might need a separate menu entry and/or button, or should be restricted to mailing lists only -- depending on configuration or usability issues. Maybe TB could also guess if the user wants this functionality by looking at the recipients of the marked (replied to) messages -- if the recipients for all mails are the same, the above described use case is entered; if not, the old behaviour is used.
== Allow Filters not only for Inbox Email Response Tracker ==
It would be nice to be able to set up Filter Rules that Here's how it should work on an arbitrary Folder, example:
For Folder |Sent| :'''When sending an email''', there should be an option (only if a corresponding switch in the Thunderbird preferences is not switched off) to switch on response tracking, plus some clickable fields for specifying the maximum amount of hours or days until a response is expected (maybe even a text entry for numbers of hours and days).
[ ]Match all of Optionally, Thunderbird may add an additional text line like "please respond within XXX days" to the sent email. This text should be configurable, and Thunderbird should insert the following [x]Match any amount of the followinghours or days into that text at a specifiable place.
|Age in days| |is| |30|'''After sending the email''', Thunderbird should check the inbox for a response for those emails that are to be tracked.
Perform these actions:If the email arrives within the specified time, the response tracking is switched off for that email. If there is an email for which no response arrives within the expected time frame, a popup or an email in my inbox will be created to remind me that there was no response for an email - subject and sent time will also be mentioned. Plus, the email in the Sent folder will be marked so that one can easily see for which email no response has arrived. Emails for which no response arrived for a multiple of the tracking period (configurable) should be marked differently, and response tracking should be switched off for those emails.
|Move Message An additional option when sending the email or in the preferences will make Thunderbird send a automated reminder email to| |Trash|the recipient each time the tracking period is expired, in addition to the popup or reminder email to the sender.Plus, Tunderbird optionally marks all email senders in my inbox and/or in my address book as "very reliable", "not always reliable", or "unreliable".
--[[User:Stebs|Stebs]] 30 Nov 2005I think the email response tracker can be very powerful when using it together with the "Ability to setup Workflows" idea and also in conjunction with the "Reminder Flag to follow up emails" idea.
I agree. I had to disable a filter for moving in my Sent file to another folder in order to have a filter based on a particular domain for the Inbox of one account. Looked for an extension that would handle this--[[User:Fingerling|Fingerling]] 14:01, there was none. Can we please make this a feature?29 Nov 2005 (PST)
--[[User:M7csat|M7csat]] 13:02, 5 July 2006 (PDT)
I That would use this tool exactly the same way: deleting sent mail after some number of daysbe a '''''fantastic''''' feature. Currently, you can set up this filter and it works, but it has I've long wondered why email clients dont to be run manually. Filters that can run on a specific folder and *according to a specific schedule* (on startup, on shutdown, daily, weekly...) would be a great improvment.--[[User:duncanshannon|duncanshannon]] 23 Jun 2006
== Allow adaptive filters not only That is exactly what i need for Junk ==overviewing and optimizing my work. I spend many hours a week just for checking the overdues.--[[User:e9826017|e9826017]] 24 Jun 2006
Similar to not only allow Filters for any folder it would be nice to have different adaptive filters apply to different folders/collections of messages. So one could possibly train a filter to match the most interesting items on an RSS stream, and use the same filter on a folder where the mails from a newly subscribed mailing list with similar content goes. Used in this way, the adaptive filter would be a positive filter, which could be used in filter rules. Each adaptive Filter would have name and a message could be matched by more than one filter (where the highest priority rule succeeds).== Miscellaneous Stuff ==
This kind of adaptive filtering I would greatly improve searching through news items as tastes highly appreciate to see a function that all open (unsent) mails are automatically saved in the background while editing and interests would manifest themselves in recovered to the draft folder when Thunderbird restarts the next time after Thunderbird itself, the OS or the adaptive filterspower supply had crashed.--[[User:Longnose|Longnose]] 22:32, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
--[[User:heron|heron]] 30 Nov 2005Improved handling of quoted text passages in the plain text editor. The angle brackets marking quoted passages should not become part of the text and thus move around when such passages are edited, but stick to the left margin like the bars in the HTML editor do. Also, editing quoted passages often leads to "comb quotes" when the mail body is rewrapped at sending. In short, the angle brackets should be decoupled from the text during editing and rewrapping and only be inserted into the actual mail body afterwards.
I support this suggestion. To take it a little further. From using other email packages, being able to do relative date filtering is a plus [if XXX days Groupware integration (weekssunbird, monthslightning) then move (delete, copy, foward)] . It allowed me ; administration of IMAP ACLs and sieve scripts with a GUI; write access to execute an action based on age LDAP addressbooks including creation of email, e.g., automatic deletion after 30 days old. The big plus here is, managing the volume of email, espeically if you have limited space.address lists--[[User:benjiespBollin|Bollin] 12 MAY 2006] 13:48, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
ThanksA function which automatically changes the sender identity specific to the folder i'm in, when i create a new email (at the moment it changes only specific to the accounts). (see the bat).--[[User:RMM|RMM]] 13:40, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
I really miss the easy backup and restore options known from The Bat. For Mac OS X i would like a better integreation, easy migration from mail.app to thunderbird and the Option to use the Mac OS X address book.--[[User:Jan-42|Jan-42]] 13:30, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
A negative filtering like junk would hello, I wish to have the posibility to add a photo to a contact in the adressbook (don't know if this is already realized in 1.5).<br />An other more complex idea is that Thunderbird could be very interesting for able to sort your mails automatically to multible different folders after a learning period, similar to the items on amoactual auto-feedslearning junk filter. --[[User:ArchaeopteryxNimix13|ArchaeopteryxNimix13]] 0510:3903, 10 October 2006 29 Nov 2005 (PDTPST)
== Email Response Tracker ==filter mails from IMAP-folder automatically to offline folders --[[User:Skurt|Skurt]] 09:14, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Here's how it should workset more then one person from adressbook to BCC with sparse clicks. building groups of adresses would be great --[[User:Skurt|Skurt]] 09:13, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
'''When sending an email'''Import/export adressbook to Outlook, there should synchronization would be an option (only if a corresponding switch in the Thunderbird preferences is not switched off) to switch on response trackinggreatest --[[User:Skurt|Skurt]] 09:13, plus some clickable fields for specifying the maximum amount of hours or days until a response is expected 29 Nov 2005 (maybe even a text entry for numbers of hours and daysPST).
OptionallyTo make the migration from Outlook Express to Thunderbird easier for non IT freaks, Thunderbird may add an additional text line like it would be nice to integrate the "please respond within XXX daysContacts sidebar" to extention and have the sent email3-pane-window as default look.. This text should be configurable, and Thunderbird should insert the amount of hours or days into that text at a specifiable place. --[[User:yann|Yann]] 29 Nov 2005
'''After sending <strike>Change the Address Book. Currently if you have an address in more than one Address Book (e.g. friends and company) and you have to make changes (email''', Thunderbird should check -changed...) you have to make this changes in EVERY Address Book. Something like categories or links would improve the usability. I would prefer categories like the inbox for a response for those emails that are Address Book in KOrganizer. --[[User:AliB|aliB]]</strike> (moved to be tracked.topic completely new adress book) --[[User:Bierdrinker|Bierdrinker]] 06:53, 22 Dec 2005 (PST)
If I would like an easy way of reporting spam to DNSBLs (i.e. spamhaus.org). An assistant might help removing personal information from the email arrives within the specified time, the response tracking is switched off for that emailmail (i.e. If there is an email for which no response arrives within the expected time frame, a popup or an reporter's email in my inbox will be created address) and send it to remind me that there was no response for an email - subject and sent several DNSBL servers at a time will also be mentioned. Plus(rumpelstielzchen, the email in the Sent folder will be marked so that one can easily see for which email no response has arrived. Emails for which no response arrived for a multiple of the tracking period (configurable29 Nov 2005) should be marked differently, and response tracking should be switched off for those emails.
An additional option when sending the email or in the preferences will make Thunderbird send I currently miss an easy way to "convert" a automated reminder email POP3 account to the recipient each time the tracking period is expiredIMAP. Many mail providers support both, in addition to the popup or reminder email so switching from POP3 to the senderIMAP should be made simpler.PlusFurthermore, Tunderbird optionally marks all email senders in my inbox and/or in my address book as it should be possible to explicitly archive mails from IMAP accounts (a kind of "very reliableoffline"mode that stores them on disk only and removes them from the server). A lot of IMAP providers severly limit the disk space, so archiving mails within Thunderbird gives you the "not always reliable", or "unreliablebest of both worlds"(POP3 & IMAP).--[[User:phantasm|phantasm]] 29 Nov 2005
The Bayes Filter should not only classify Mails als SPAM, it should be able to learn classify Mails as I think the email response tracker can be very powerful when using it together with the move them to Folders (e.g. "Newsletter", "Ability to setup WorkflowsWork" idea and also in conjunction with the , "Reminder Flag to follow up emailsFriends" idea...a self learning Inbox Filter)(GOI)
Would be great if Thunderbird would support email templates. For example I create everyday a report containing the current date in the subject. Creating a template with the subject "Report: <date>" would be great. --[[User:FingerlingAliB|FingerlingaliB]] 14:01, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
I'd love to see an option to hyperlink phone numbers in the address book. Either to "sip:" or better still to any URL, so that a CGI script could connect to an Asterisk server to initiate a call.--[[User:Libits|Libits]] 05:41, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
That It would be a '''''fantastic''''' featurenice if the addressbook is integrated with the evolution addressbook (for the GNOME Desktop). I've long wondered why email clients dont to that.--[[User:duncanshannonDriessel|duncanshannonDriessel]] 23 Jun 200603:42, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
That is exactly what i need for overviewing and optimizing my work. I spend many hours a week just for checking It could be also interessting if calendar appointments could be storred in the overduesevolution-datacenter-server.--[[User:e9826017Driessel|e9826017Driessel]] 24 Jun 200603:42, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
== Miscellaneous Stuff ==More integration in the corresponding Desktop would be nice --[[User:Driessel|Driessel]] 03:42, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
I Perhaps these things could already be handled with with the existing plugin structure? If not it would highly appreciate be nice to see a function that all open (unsent) mails are automatically saved in the background while editing and recovered to the draft folder when Thunderbird restarts the next time after Thunderbird itself, the OS or the power supply had crashedmake this possible with some extensions.--[[User:LongnoseDriessel|LongnoseDriessel]] 2203:3242, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Improved handling of quoted text passages in the plain text editor. The angle brackets marking quoted passages should not become part of the text and thus move around when such passages are editedSpotlight integration, Metadata support, but stick to the left margin Slideshow features like the bars in the HTML editor do. Also, editing quoted passages often leads to "comb quotes" when the mail body is rewrapped at sending. In shortappoptional Dashboard Widget, the angle brackets should be decoupled from the text during editing and rewrapping and only be inserted better integration into the actual mail body afterwards.existing iWork & iLife product--[[User:Chunk|Chunk]] 05:17, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Groupware integration ''UI Face Lift for the 3-pane Window'': I like the 3-column view that Outlook 2003 has. It features a column with the mail folders (sunbirdleft), one with the headers, lightningbut every msg gets ''two'' lines (middle); administration of IMAP ACLs , and sieve scripts with a GUI; write access to LDAP addressbooks including creation of address listsone column showing the actual message. --[[User:BollinF00f|Bollinf00f]] 1314:4820, 29 Nov 2005 (PSTCET)
A function which automatically changes ''UI Face Lift for the sender identity specific to the folder i3-pane Window''m : One key navigation in, when i create the Folder Pane would be a great navigational improvement: I filed this as an RFE a new email (at the moment it changes only specific to the accounts)while back: https://bugzilla.mozilla. (see the bat)org/show_bug.cgi?id=219352--[[User:RMMsmagdali|RMMsmagdali]] 13:40, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
I really miss would appreciate a more flexible way for date-formating in the easy backup and restore options known from The Batmessage list. For Mac OS X i Another nice feature would like a better integreation, easy migration from mail.app to thunderbird and be the Option possibility to use sort messages in the Mac OS X address bookorder of reception.--[[User:Jan-42F00f|Jan-42f00f]] 1314:3020, 29 Nov 2005 (PSTCET)
hello, I wish to have would appreciate microsoft entourage and apple mail support for the posibility to add a photo to a contact in the adressbook 'import of local mail' tool (don't know if this is already realized in 1.5Mac OsX version).<br />An other more complex idea is that Thunderbird could be able to sort your mails automatically to multible different folders after a learning period, similar to the actual auto-learning junk filter. --[[User:Nimix13|Nimix13]] 10:03, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Mail notification and filters: Currently I'm notified of a new mail regardless of wether it's filtered away to another folder or not. I would like to filter mails from IMAP-unimportant mail and only be notified if a mail is filtered in a special folder automatically to offline folders --or not filtered at all. : [[User:SkurtSwift|SkurtSwift]] 0905:1430, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
set more then one person from adressbook to BCC with sparse clicks. building groups of adresses would be great --[[User:Skurt|Skurt]] 09:13, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Import/export adressbook Another features:- The ability in MS Windows to minimize Thunderbird to the Systray like MS Outlook, synchronization would be greatest --[[User:Skurt|Skurt]] 09:13, 29 Nov 2005 (PST).
To make the migration from Outlook Express to Thunderbird easier for non IT freaks, it would be nice to integrate the "Contacts sidebar" extention and have the 3<strike>-panePrevention of showing HTML E-window as default lookMails (show text only)... </strike> View->Message Body As-[[User:yann|Yann]] 29 Nov 2005>Plain Text
<strike>Change the Address Book. Currently if you have an address in more than one Address Book (e.g. friends and company) and you have to make changes (email-changed...) you have Ability to make this changes show additional Header Informations in EVERY Address Book. Something like categories or links would improve an extra windows - not on the usability. I would prefer categories like the Address Book in KOrganizer. --[[User:AliB|aliB]]</strike> (moved to topic completely new adress book) --[[User:Bierdrinker|Bierdrinker]] 06:53, 22 Dec 2005 (PST)message itselfs
I would like an easy way of reporting spam <strike>- Ability to DNSBLs mark Messages (iDone, Undone, Status : red/green/yellow.e. spamhaus.org). An assistant might help removing personal information from </strike> Try the mail (i.e. the reporter's email address) and send it to several DNSBL servers at a time1, 2, 3, 4, 5 keys. (rumpelstielzchen, 29 Nov 2005)
I currently miss an easy way to "convert" a POP3 account to IMAP. Many mail providers support both, so switching from POP3 - Ability to IMAP should be made simpler. Furthermore, it should be possible to explicitly archive mails from IMAP accounts (a kind of "offline" mode that stores them say 'download all folder contents' on disk only and removes them from the server). A lot of IMAP providers severly limit the disk space, so archiving mails within Thunderbird gives you the "best of both worlds" (POP3 & IMAP). Thanks !--[[User:phantasmNeversaid|phantasmNeversaid]] 05:37, 29 Nov 2005(PST)
The Bayes Filter should not only classify Mails als SPAMGenerate a task in Evolution, it Outlook or Sunbird from an email message. This should be able to learn classify Mails as I move them to Folders (e.g. "Newsletter"done through an extension --[[User:Driessel|Driessel]] 05:39, "Work", "Friends" ...a self learning Inbox Filter)29 Nov 2005 (GOIPST)
Would be great if Thunderbird would support email templatesRFC 3028 Sieve/MANAGESieve Supporthttp://www. For example I create everyday a report containing the current date in the subject. Creating a template with the subject "Report: <date>" would be greatietf. org/internet-drafts/draft-martin-managesieve-[[User:AliB|aliB]] 05.txt
I'd love to see an option to hyperlink phone numbers in the address bookSupport maildir format internaly. Either to "sipSee [https:" or better still to any URL//bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308 Bug 58308]. People have given enough arguments why this would be nice, so that a CGI script could connect but it would make it possible and fairly easy to an Asterisk server to initiate write a callmdimporter for mac os's spotlight (spotlight integration).--[[User:LibitsIbn|LibitsIbn]] 0514:4139, 29 Nov 2005 (PSTCET)
It would be nice if the addressbook is integrated with the evolution addressbook Better integreation in Mac OS X: 1) Spotlight plug-in to search Thunderbird's e-mail (for the GNOME Desktopas mentioned above)2)The Option to use Mac OS X's address book instead of Thunderbird's.--[[User:DriesselSetrok|DriesselSetrok]] 0305:4246, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
It could PS: @Neversaid: A shortkey to change quickly between Plain Text/HTML view (only for this message) would be also interessting if calendar appointments could nice. I normally use the Plain Text view, but sometimes a messages requires (grumble) HTML. In that case, such a key would be storred in the evolution-datacenter-servernice.--[[User:DriesselSetrok|DriesselSetrok]] 0305:4250, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
More integration display connection errors in a dropdownlist above the corresponding Desktop would be nice statusbar and do not open a messagebox (try navigating in an imap--[account when disconnected). Could look like "The Bat!" ([Userhttp:Driessel|Driessel//www.ritlabs.com/images/products/sd_thebat/main_menu.gif screenshot ]] 03:42, 29 Nov 2005 (PST- look at the dropdownlist at the bottom containing "FETCH ...").
Perhaps these things could already be handled with with the existing plugin structure? If not it would be nice ability to to make this possible with some extensions. store searches in subfolders, even if real subfolders in imap--[[User:Driessel|Driessel]] 03:42, 29 Nov 2005 accounts are not allowed (PSTe.g. gmx.net imap).
Spotlight integration, Metadata support, Slideshow features I would like to specify in which folder to store the answered mail(the original) together with the copy of the outgoing message. Like in the mailer mulberry: I copy the respective mail AND my answer in a folder I select (this feature is in the mulberry email window available as "Copy to: (list of all folders) followed by a check box "_ Also copy original message").appoptional Dashboard Widget, better integration into existing iWork & iLife product--[[User:Chunkgep|Chunkgep]] 05:17, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
You can specify to store a copy of an outgoing message (Options -> Send a copy to -> ...). But you can''UI Face Lift for t change the 3-pane Windowsettings after you have chosen a destination, and you can'': I like the 3-column view that Outlook 2003 hast see wether you have chosen to save a copy at all. It features a column with would be nice to have an indicator in the mail folders (left), one with status line or at least be able to check the headers, but every msg gets ''two'' lines (middle), and one column showing settings in the actual messagemenu. --[[User:F00fSwift|f00fSwift]] 1407:2003, 29 Nov 2005 (CETPST)
''UI Face Lift for Related to the 3-pane Window''previous entry: One key navigation in the Folder Pane would when a copy of an outgoing message is enabled, a copy will be stored even if I only store a great navigational improvement: I filed this message as an RFE draft. In my opinion a while back: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bugcopy only should be save when I really send the message.cgi?id=219352--[[User:smagdaliSwift|smagdaliSwift]]07:03, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
I i would appreciate a more flexible way for date-formating like to see the cabinet concept (like virtual folders that can group folders from different account (not quite like the favorites mentioned!)) of mulberry implemented in the message listthunderbird. Another nice feature would be This includes the possibility to sort messages in the order of receptiontie identities to cabinets/folders. --[[User:F00fbnz|f00fbnz]] 14:20, 29 Nov 2005 (CET)
I would appreciate microsoft entourage and apple mail support for a feature to delete all mails in junk folder with one click in the 'import contextmenu of local mail' tool the junk folder or with a shortkey. (see Mail.app Mac OsX versionOS X) --[[User:Elmexz|Elmexz]] 06:54, 29 Nov 2005 (PST).
Mail notification Additionally to the "Empty Junk Folder" feature Elmexz mentioned, a global setting that Junk is really deleted (and filters: Currently I'm notified of a new mail regardless of wether it's filtered away not first sent to another folder or notTrash) that works for all delete methods (contextmenu, "Automatically delete junk messages older than..." feature etc. I ) would like to filter unimportant mail and only be notified if a mail is filtered in a special folder or not filtered at allnice. : --[[User:SwiftStebs|SwiftStebs]] 05:30, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
To extent Stebs proposal further; I would highly appreciate the feature to permanently delete a mail (not sending it to the trash folder) by holding e.g. shift or ctrl when clicking on the delete button with the mouse or pressing the delete key on the keyboard. --[[User:Jott|Jott]] 01:36, 3 Feb 2006 (PST)
Another featuresI'd like to have a data source interface as provided by the KDE Kontact suite:- The ability in MS Windows to minimize Thunderbird One can chose between different data sources and has a flexible tool to the Systray like MS Outlookaccess and merge his data.
<strike>- Prevention of showing HTML E-Mails (show text only)I am using kaddressbook with an imap addressbook ressource. Since thunderbird is already able to handle imap folders and even store them in offline mode, it would be cool to be able to use addresses from such an imap folder in my addressbook.</strike> View->Message Body As->Plain Text
The same holds for sunbird: Korganizer can store its appointments as ical- Ability to show additional Header Informations Files in an extra windows imap folder (basically as e- not on the message itselfsmails with ical content). If Sunbird were able to use an imap folder (provided by Thunderbird) as data source, I could also synchronize my calender data.
<strike>- Ability to mark Messages (Done, Undone, Status While you are at it: red/green/yellow..Storing the mail filter rules on the imap server would be great too.(If it's an easily parseable format maybe someone even writes something to update mailfilter or procmail scripts for serverside filtering)</strike> Try the 1--[[User:Elm|Elm]] 16:32, 2, 3, 4, 5 keys.29 Nov 2005 (PST)
- Ability Make it possible so that while viewing Message Headers sorted in descending order (=default, and automatically reset after "compact folder"), deleting a Mail does move Focus up to the next newer Message (and not move down to say 'download all folder contents' on IMAPThanks !the next older one). --[[User:NeversaidStebs|NeversaidStebs]] 05:37, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Generate a task Hierarchichal unread messages count indication.Having nested folders, you can't see, when the parent folder is collapsed, how many unread messages are in Evolution, Outlook or Sunbird from an email messagethe parent folder. If the account is collapsed there is no indication that it holds unread messages. This should be done through an extension --[[User:Driessel|Driessel]] 05:39, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
RFC 3028 Sieve/MANAGESieve == Native Widget Supporthttp://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-martin-managesieve-05.txt(GTK+) on Linux ==
Support maildir format internaly. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308 Bug 58308]. People have given enough arguments why this I would be really nice, but it would make it possible and fairly easy to write a mdimporter have native GTK+ widgets for mac os's spotlight the file dialogs in thunderbird (spotlight integrationff, too). [[User:Ibn|Ibn]] 14:39In windows everything works quite well, so I would be happy to see this for linux, 29 Nov 2005 (CET)too.
Better integreation in Mac OS X: 1) Spotlight plug-in to search Thunderbird's e-mail (as mentioned above)2) The Option to use Mac OS X's address book instead == handle of Thunderbird's. --[[User:Setrok|Setrok]] 05:46, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)mails ==
PS: @Neversaid: A shortkey It would be helpful to change quickly between Plain Text/HTML view (only have a possibility for this message) marking a mail with a different state. The best would be nice. I normally use to give the user the right for creating the Plain Text view, but sometimes a messages requires (grumble) HTMLdifferent states. In that case, such a key would be nicefor example.--[[User:Setrok|Setrok]] 05:50, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)Todo; answer later; private; etc.
display connection errors in other is give a dropdownlist above the statusbar and do not open mail a messagebox (try navigating answeringdate like it is coming in an imap-account when disconnected). Could look like "The Bat!" ([http://www.ritlabs.com/images/products/sd_thebat/main_menu.gif screenshot ] - look at the dropdownlist at the bottom containing "FETCH ...")that day.
ability other would be to store searches in subfolders, even if real subfolders in imap-accounts are not allowed (e.g. gmx.net imap)send a mail at a different date.
I would like Possibility to specify change the subject in which folder to store the answered an recieved mail (the original) together with the copy of the outgoing message. Like in the mailer mulberry: I copy the respective mail AND my answer in a folder I select (this feature is in the mulberry email window available as "Copy or to: (list of all folders) followed by have a check box "_ Also copy original message")second mysubject-line for comments. --[[User:gep|gep]]
You can specify to store a copy of an outgoing message (Options -> Send a copy Added by Don Dillin): Further to -> ...). But you can't change the settings after you have chosen a destinationlast comment, and you can't see wether you above:Really would like Thunderbird to have chosen to save a copy at all. It would be nice feature LONG AVAILABLE in MS Outlook:Need ability to have an indicator EDIT the subject of any email item in the status line or at least INBOX (AFTER it has been received) and then be able to check save that email in the settings INBOX with the revised (edited) subject field. This feature has been available in Outlook for 10 years, since Outlook 97, and every version since, and is invaluable for later search and retrieval of messages when the menuoriginal "Subject" field was null or insufficient. This is a critical functionality deficiency in head-to-[[User:Swift|Swift]] 07:03head comparisons with Outlook, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)when T-Bird is so rich in other feature areas.
Related Thanks to the previous entry: when a copy of an outgoing message is enabled, a copy will whoever might be stored even if I only store a message as draftable to do something about this! Please add to planned features .. In my opinion a copy only should be save when I really send the message. --[[User:Swift|Swift]] 07:03, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
i == handle of attachments ==<strike>a good thing would like be to see have the cabinet concept (like virtual folders that can group folders from different account (not quite like rights to delete an attachment in the favorites mentioned!)) of mulberry implemented in thunderbirdmail. This includes so it is possible to keep the possibility mail-message without the attachment. It would be good to tie identities to cabinetsmake a note in the mail that there was an attachment.</folders. --[[User:bnz|bnz]]strike>
I would appreciate a feature to delete all mails in junk folder Sorry for this rude striking, but this is already possible with one click in the contextmenu of the junk folder or with a shortkeyTB 1. 5 (see Mailand we talk about TB 2.app Mac OS X0) --[[User:ElmexzStebs|ElmexzStebs]] 06:54, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Additionally to the "Empty Junk Folder" feature Elmexz mentioned, a global setting that Junk It is really deleted (and not first sent to Trash) that works for all delete methods (contextmenupossible, "Automatically delete junk messages older thansort of.But: Detaching doesn't work properly, in my experience.What's more, that message should, in my view, not pop up at the top of the list as if it had been the last one received." feature etc.) would And anyway there should be nicean option to completely delete any reference to there having been an attachment in the first place. --[[User:StebsPeter Beattie|StebsPeter]]
To extent Stebs proposal further; I A nice feature would highly appreciate the feature be to permanently delete a mail (not sending it strip attachments from mails automatically and save them to the trash an extra folder) by holding e.gThis would ease virus scanning, keep mailboxes slim and therefore speed up TB dramtically. shift or ctrl when clicking on However, I don't know whether the delete button with the mouse or pressing the delete key on the keyboardmailbox format allows references to files in a folder, but if, it would be most valuable. --[[User:Jott|Jott]] 01:36, 3 Feb 2006 (PST)
Save Attachments of Selected Mails<br>Maybe this one does work already too, but Ican'd like t find how to do it. I want to have save all attachments of mails I selected. Would be a data source interface as provided by the KDE Kontact suite: One can chose between different data sources and has a flexible tool to access and merge his datanice feature.
I think that what the original comment might have meant is that Thunderbird should have an option to not save attachments to the sent-mail folder. I would ideally like a global preference which could then be checked or unchecked for every individual message. I am using kaddressbook wasting a lot of upload and download time with an imap addressbook ressourcebig attachments which I don't need saved in my sent-mail folder, but where I do want to keep a record of what was in the message body. Since thunderbird The only thing I can do is already able abort the save to handle imap folders and even store them in offline modesent mail process, it would be cool which sometimes causes Thunderbird to be able crash, or to use addresses from such an imap folder detach the attachment after it is saved, at a large cost in my addressbooktime and bandwidth. I also agree with the comment above about the difficulties with the detach feature.--[[User:Reykvikingur|Reykvikingur]]
The same holds for sunbird: Korganizer can store its appointments as ical-Files in an imap folder How about being able to view the filename (basically as e-mails with ical contentor maybe also properties). If Sunbird were able to use of an imap folder attachment on mouse over (provided by Thunderbirdor right click) as data source? Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere, I could also synchronize my calender data.Luke
While you are at it: Storing Download of attachments shouldn't be necessary when reading the mail filter rules on the imap server would be great too. I had to download a big (If it's an easily parseable format maybe someone even writes something to update mailfilter or procmail scripts for serverside filtering24MB) --[[Userattachment three times:Elm|Elm]] 16:32When viewing the messagethe first time, 29 Nov 2005 then I wanted to save it (waiting again) and after readinga different message I had to wait again when reading that message (PSTyawn).I'm using IMAP. Downloading once should be enough, right? And not whenviewing the email the first time but only when I want to save it.
Make it possible so that while viewing Message Headers sorted in descending order (=default, and automatically reset after "compact folder"), deleting a Mail does move Focus up to the next newer Message (and not move down to the next older one). --[[User:Stebs|Stebs]]= Addressbook Management ==
Hierarchichal unread messages count indicationIn the current Thunderbird, I often get stuck when managing Email lists.Having nested folders, Suppose you can't seewant to create an Email list for 10 out of your 200 entries. You have to open each addressbook entry individually, when copy the parent folder is collapsedEmail address, how many unread messages are in open the parent folder. If the account is collapsed there is no indication that list again, and paste it holds unread messagesas a new list entry.
== Native Widget Support (GTK+) on Linux ==It would be much smoother if Email lists could be handled by drag and drop, and if the List entries worked just like the address fields in the compose window.
I would be really nice to have native GTK+ widgets for the file dialogs in thunderbird (ff, too). In windows everything Anybody who regularly works quite well, so I would with Lists under Thunderbird should be happy to see this for linux, toopleased by such features.
== handle of mails =='''Standard8 responds:''' Well actually, you can drag and drop already - open up the address book view and select an address book, then you can drag entries from the view on the right pane to the mailing list on the left pane. --[[User:Standard8|Standard8]] 13:52, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)
It would UncleFu86 thinks: There also has to be helpful to have a possibility for marking a mail with a different state[https://bugzilla.mozilla. The best would be to give the user the right for creating the different statesorg/show_bug.cgi?id=266891 Adressbook entry update]!!for exampleMaybe also like this: https://bugzilla.: Todo; answer later; private; etcmozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256831
other '''Standard8 responds:''' This is give a mail a answeringdate like being thought about, but we could do with more volunteers to help with it is coming in at that day.See [[MailNews:Address Book]] for more info --[[User:Standard8|Standard8]] 13:52, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)
other Clemente thinks this would be to send a nice feature: Create a list in the Adressbook from the recipients of a mail at . All adresses in "From", "To" and "CC" except my own should be added to a different datelist with one click.
Possibility Metasailor googled this topic, came here and signed up just to change request this feature. I agree with Clemente. I have been in bunches of different mailing lists, and would like to add all of the subject in folks on them to my address book AND make my own mailing lists. If Addressbook has an recieved mail. option for me to create lists from the recipients, and/or to have a second mysubject-line then edit the lists, merge them, and manage them, that would be just too awesome for commentswords.
(Added by Don Dillin): Further to last comment, above:Really would like Thunderbird to have a feature LONG AVAILABLE in MS Outlook:Need ability to EDIT the subject This is also of any email item in the INBOX (AFTER it has been received) and then be able to save that email in the INBOX great added convenience if I'm managing multiple accounts with the revised (edited) subject field. This feature has been available in Outlook for 10 years, since Outlook 97, and every version sinceThunderbird, including Google and is invaluable for later search and retrieval of messages when Yahoo accounts via the original "Subject" field was null or insufficient. This is a critical functionality deficiency in head-toWebmail plug-head comparisons with Outlook, when T-Bird is so rich in other feature areas.
Thanks to whoever might be able to do something about this! Please add to planned features ...== Configurable display for mail header fields ==
== handle of attachments ==<strike>a good thing It would be great if there would be the possibility to have the rights add special header fields to delete an attachment in the mail. so it header display, which is possible currently containing subject, from, to keep the mail-message without the attachmentand date. It An example would be good to make a note in the mail that there was an attachmentdisplay of the user agent or any other header, if existent.</strike>
Sorry == Support for this rude striking, but this is already possible with TB 1.5 (and we talk about TB 2.0) --[[User:Stebs|Stebs]]Mixmaster / Mixminion remailers ==
It is possible, sort of. But: Detaching doesn't work properly, in my experience. What's moreabout support for anonymous, that message should, in my view, not pop up at the top of the list as if it had been the last one received. And anyway there should secure remailers like mixmaster / mixminion? It would be an option a major contribute to completely delete any reference be able to there having been an attachment in the first placeuse those from within thunderbird. --[[User:Peter BeattieEisman|PeterEisman]]23:04, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
A nice feature would be to strip attachments from mails automatically and save them to an extra folder. This would ease virus scanning, keep mailboxes slim and therefore speed up TB dramtically. However, I don't know whether the mailbox format allows references to files in a folder, but if, it would be most valuable.== Customizable print output ==
Save Attachments It can be very usefull to customize the printout. I suggest a template like system, so that a user can change the look of Selected Mails<br>a printout without programming abilities.Maybe this one does work already too, but ----Agreed. I like the way Outlook prints out the messages. I can't find how would love to be able to do have the sender be large, in the top corner, and the subject right under it. I want to save Then the date in the opposite corner. Put a border around it all attachments of mails I selected, kinda like Lotus Notes. Would Let it be a nice featuresomething that the user can define, based on each part/section of the message.
I think that what the original comment might have meant is that Thunderbird should have an option to not save attachments to the sent-mail folder. I would ideally like a global preference which could then be checked or unchecked for every individual message. I am wasting a lot of upload and download time with big attachments which I don't need saved in my sent-mail folder, but where I do want to keep a record of what was in the message body. The only thing I can do is abort the save to sent mail process, which sometimes causes Thunderbird to crash, or to detach the attachment after it is saved, at a large cost in time and bandwidth. I also agree with the comment above about the difficulties with the detach feature. --[[User:Reykvikingur|Reykvikingur]]== Pocket PC sync ==
How about being able to view the filename (or maybe also properties) of an attachment on mouse over (or right click)? Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere, LukeSync Address book and Calendar like Palm-sync in MOZ
Download of attachments shouldn't be necessary when reading the mail.I had to download a big (24MB) attachment three times: When viewing the messagethe first time, then I wanted to save it (waiting again) and after readinga different message I had to wait again when reading that message (yawn).I'm using IMAP. Downloading once should be enoughtoo, right? And not whenviewing would like the email the first time but only when I want ability to save it.sync contacts and calendar with my *shudder* Windows Mobile --[[User:k0rtnie|k0rtnie]]
== Addressbook Management Update Vertical View Layout ==
In I like the current Thunderbirdvertical view layout, I often get stuck when managing Email listsbut it's not useable on 1024x768 pixel screens. Suppose you want The middle column with subject, from, date infos is to create an Email list wide. Two lines (one for 10 out of your 200 entries. You have to open each addressbook entry individuallysubject, copy the Email addressone for from, open date) will be the list again, and paste it as a new list entryanswer to 1024 screens. [http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/prodinfo/overview.mspx Example (Outlook)] (see also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug. cgi?id=213945 this bug])
It would be much smoother if Email lists could be handled by drag and drop, and if the List entries worked just like the address fields in the compose window.== Backup recovery/profile import ==
Anybody who regularly works with Lists under Thunderbird should be pleased The last time I totally rebuilt my workstation (formatted HD, new XP installation), I just had a backup of my profile dir. After installing TB, I was forced to create a new email account, then I replaced this dir by the backed up one. Please tell me it's already possible in the current release to import a saved profile in a more comfortable way - otherwise, I'd appreciate such featuresa feature in a future release.
'''Standard8 responds:''' Well actually, you can drag and drop already - open up the address book view and select an address book, then you can drag entries from the view on the right pane to the mailing list on the left pane. --[[User:Standard8|Standard8]] 13:52, 30 Dec 2005 (PST)
UncleFu86 thinks: There also has to be a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266891 Adressbook entry update]!!
Maybe also like this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256831
'''Standard8 responds:''' This is being thought aboutIt would be very nice to export / inport all user data in a EASY way... If you plan to make a new installation of your OS, you would like to save emails, accounts, rules and so on. there are some extentions, but we could do with more volunteers to help with itshould be integrated. See [[MailNews:Address Book]] .. It would be a good function for more info people who don't have good IT-knowledge --[[User:Standard8yann|Standard8Yann]] 13:52, 30 Dec 29 Nov 2005 (PST)
Clemente thinks this would be a nice feature: Create a list in the Adressbook from the recipients of a mail. All adresses in "From", "To" and "CC" except my own should be added to a list with one click.
Metasailor googled this topic, came here and signed up just to request this feature. I agree with Clemente. I have been in bunches of different mailing lists, here totally: It took me (a Computer Scientist!) over an hour and would like to add all a lot of the folks on them luck to restore my address book AND make my own mailing listsprofile after a new installation. If Addressbook has an option for me to create lists from the recipients, Thunderbird needs a simple "Backup Profile" and/or then edit the lists"Restore Profile" functionality! --[[User:Kyron|Kyron]] 03:52, merge them, and manage them, that would be just too awesome for words.27 August 2006 (PDT)
This is also of great added convenience if I'm managing multiple accounts with Thunderbird, including Google and Yahoo accounts via the Webmail plug-in.== Intelligent folder handling ==
== Configurable display The next step for mail header fields ==email clients would be to massively facilitate folder handling. For example, when dragging an email onto folders, it should be possible to type the initial letters of a folder name (while pressing the mouse button), and the matching folder(s) would automatically be expanded and scrolled to. For corporate users with a large set of folders, this would be very helpful.
It would be great if there Even better would be a Bayesian filter (much like the possibility to add special header fields to junk mail filter) that detects the header displaymost likely folders for an email, which is currently containing subject, from, to and date. An example would be shows them as drag-and-drop targets in a toolbar above/below the display of email content, so that the user agent or any other headercan drag the email into one of these most likely folders. If he wants to use another folder instead, if existenthe can use the regular folder list.
== Support But these Bayesian filters could do even more: When the most likely folder (or set of previous emails) for Mixmaster / Mixminion remailers ==a new email is determined, the previous emails (and their replies) could be used to pre-fill a new reply email with the correct address (taken from previous replies).
What about support for anonymousAnother thing: How is copying of emails to local folders done right now? If this is a full copy, secure remailers like mixmaster / mixminion? It an improvement would be a major contribute to be able have aliases (placeholders) that would point to use those from within thunderbirdan email.--[[User:Eisman|Eisman]] 23:04In this way, 29 Nov 2005 I could file an email under several folders (PSTe.g. under 'customers/ACME' AND under 'complaints'), without copying it.
== Customizable print output ==+ This is partially handled by [http://quickfile.mozdev.org Quick File], at least for moving/copying messages and navigation. There are attempts underway to integrate QF into TB2. [[User:Ptomli|Ptomli]] 16:35, 8 Feb 2006 (PST)
It can be very usefull to customize the printout. I suggest a template like system, so that a user can change the look of a printout without programming abilities.----Agreed. I like the way Outlook prints out the messages. I would love to be able to have the sender be large, == Searching for addresses in the top corner, and the subject right under it. Then the date in the opposite corner. Put a border around it all, kinda like Lotus Notes. Let it be something that the user can define, based on each part/section of the message.window ==
== Pocket PC sync ==I hope, that I haven't missed anything.Sometimes I get e-mail with a very big distribution list. To check whether a specific recipient is addressed, I'd like to search for it using <ctrl-f> in the message window. Currently I have to do it via the message source <ctrl-u>.
Sync Address book and Calendar like Palm-sync in MOZ== Improvements to search folders / vFolders ==
ISearch folders should not only be cached, too, would they also should be kept up to date when new mail arrives. This way you you can see in what kind of category a mail falls without moving it to a different folder. A bit like the ability to sync contacts and calendar with my *shudder* Windows Mobile views--[[User:k0rtnie|k0rtnie]]concept of the Opera mailclient or the vFolders in Evolution.
== Update Vertical View Layout ==An really useful search folder would be one that matches all messages not matched by all other search folders. This is an default vFolder in Evolution and should be in Thunderbird as well. So maybe some automatic search folders for unmatched messages, contacts, priorities, attachements and stuff could also be included or made possible to create.
I like the vertical view layout, but When creating search folders it's not useable on 1024x768 pixel screens. The middle column with subject, from, date infos is should be possible to choose which folders to wideinclude in the search. Two lines (one for subject, Either give some specific folders or all existing folders in one for from, date) will be the answer to 1024 screens. [http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/prodinfo/overview.mspx Example (Outlook)] (see also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bugaccount or even in all accounts.cgi?id=213945 this bug])
== Backup recovery/profile import ==Also add some functions to the context menu of those folders. Like delete all, mark all read and so on (which should be on every folder by the way).
The last time I totally rebuilt my workstation (formatted HD, new XP installation), I just had a backup of my profile dir. After installing TB, I was forced to create a new email account, then I replaced Wouldn't this dir by the backed up one. Please tell me it's already possible in the current release be quite easy to import a saved profile in a more comfortable way - otherwise, I'd appreciate such a feature in a future releaseimplement if vFolders were based on tags.
Performance of search folders should be fast even when dealing with large numbers of messages (eg. 100,000 messages for users). When the user clicks on a search folder, the contents should be viewable immediately, and should be complete -- currently a search is performed and can take many seconds to complete. The search folder caching should update all relevant search folders at the time when a message arrives, so searching at the moment the user clicks on the search folder should not be necessary.
== Multiple email addresses for sending ==
It would be very nice to export / inport I've got lots of email addresses at different providers, but they all user data in a EASY wayshare the same server side inbox (e.g., they are all collected by a Yahoo! mailbox). If you plan Wouldn't it be nice to make a new installation be able sending emails with all of your OS, you would like these email addresses without having to save emails, create a dozen inbox accounts, rules and so on? At the moment (TB1. there are some extentions, 3) you can specify several SMTP server but it should be integrated... It would be a good function for people who donyou can't have good IT-knowledge use them unless an account. --[[User:yannManuel Strehl|Manuel]] [[User talk:Manuel Strehl|Yann(talk)]] 29 03:56, 30 Nov 2005(PST)
Maybe what you're looking for is the "Identity" thing in Account Options? --[[Peter Beattie|Peter]]
I agree here totallyTry the [http: It took me (a Computer Scientist!) over an hour and a lot of luck to restore my profile after a new installation//absorb.it/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=VirtualIdentity VirtualIdentity] extension. Thunderbird needs a simple "Backup Profile" and "Restore Profile" functionality! --[[User:KyronVor0nwe|Kyronvor0nwe]] 0308:5247, 27 August 2006 14 Dec 2005 (PDTPST)
== Intelligent folder handling ==I know some guys wich have to handle their messages with POP3 and SMTP. And I am not able to configure it correctly to handle it with "more than one smtp-server" to work properly! Maybe it is better to solve the problem with "connecting an smtp-server with the catching account like outlook (express). In outlook express every emailaccount is connected with incomming (pop3/imap) and outgoing (smtp) account. --[[jamfx]]
The next step for email clients would be to massively facilitate folder handling. For example, when dragging an email onto folders, it should be possible to type the initial letters of a folder name (while pressing the mouse button), and the matching == IMAP: Let me chose in what folder(s) would automatically be expanded and scrolled to. For corporate users with a large set of folders, this would be very helpful.save sent messages ==
Even better In order to hold threads together I would like to be asked before sending a Bayesian filter (much like message in what folder to save the junk mail filter) that detects the most likely folders for message. If it is an email, and shows them as drag-and-drop targets in answer or a toolbar above/below the email contentforward, so that the user can drag folder where the email into one of these most likely folders. If he wants to use another folder instead, he can use original message lives in should be the regular folder listdefault.
But these Bayesian filters could do even more[[User:kreatifworx|kreatifworx]]: When the most likely folder That is exactly what I would like to see. I use three email clients on three different computers (or set of previous emailsunfortunately I have to) for a new email is determinedand every client software has created its own IMAP directories like "sent", "outbox", "trash", the previous emails ("junk" and their replies) so on. It would be very fine if I could be used to pre-fill a new reply email with the correct address (taken from previous replies)eliminate some of these redundant directories.
Another thing: How is copying of emails to local folders done right now? If this is a full copy, an improvement would be to have aliases (placeholders) that would point to an email. In this way, I could file an email under several folders (e.g. under 'customers/ACME' AND under 'complaints'), without copying it.== New structuring and visualization features ==
+ This is partially handled by Implement new mail structuring and visualization features like done in [http://quickfilewww.mozdevresearch.org Quick File], at least for movingibm.com/remail/copying messages and navigationindex. There are attempts underway to integrate QF into TB2. [[User:Ptomli|Ptomlihtml IBM remail]] 16:35, 8 Feb 2006 (PST)
== Searching for addresses in message window Colored EMail index ==
I hopeIn the mail index, that I haven't missed anythingthe text color should be customizable for each message.Sometimes I get e-mail with Depending on whether messages match a very big distribution listcertain pattern. To check whether For example, with a specific recipient is addressed, I'd like to search for it using <ctrl-f> certain configuration all mails from the linux kernel mailinglsit should be shown in red and all from the message window. Currently I have to do it via the message source <ctrl-u>thunderbird developers mailing list should be shown blue.
== Improvements I'd also like to search folders be able to mark messages so that they appear with a solid bar of colour behind them; someone seems to have hack for this with the userchrome.css file on linux, but I haven't seen it for windows. i.e. I would like mails to appear as they do when you first mark them, with say white or black text against a solid red/blue/ vFolders ==yellow etc. background. I'm requesting this because it would make them more easily visible; I can't always pick them out at a glance even when I've marked them. Sorry if this has already been requested elsewhere, Luke
Search folders should not only be cached, they also should be kept up to date when new mail arrives. This way you you can see in what kind of category a mail falls without moving it to a different folder. A bit like the views-concept of the Opera mailclient or the vFolders in Evolution.== Synchronize locale messages with POP3 server account ==
An really useful search folder would Since 90% of the users have POP3 accounts it should be one that matches all considered to add a better synchronization of locale stored messages not matched by all other search folderswith the messages on the server account (see also "http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=135107&highlight="). The intention ist to give the user the most possible control over his POP3 account and allow to retrieve messages to several computers. This is an default vFolder also allows to use the POP3 account as a backup store in Evolution and should be in Thunderbird case of a locale failure, allows to mark messages as well. So maybe some automatic search folders for unmatched messages, contacts, prioritieslocked (never deleted), attachements etc and stuff could also be included or made possible allows to createdelete stray messages on the server which should have deleted before.
When creating search folders it should be possible to choose which folders to include in the search. Either give some specific folders or all existing folders in one account or even in all accounts. == Folder selection through popup box when folder pane hidden ==
Also add some functions This allows to still be able to switch between folders even if the context menu of those foldersfolder pane is hidden. This popup box may be show always or only when folder pain hidden (see also [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic. Like delete all, mark all read php?t=18172&highlight= Folder selection through combo box] and so on (which should be on every [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=60707&highlight= Combo box for folder by the wayselection]).
Wouldn't this be quite easy to implement if vFolders were based on tags.== Verbose E-mail folders ==
Performance of search folders should be fast even when dealing with large numbers of messages (eg. 100Currently,000 messages for users). When you can only browse through your email by clicking the user clicks on a search folderemails and reading them, or you must read the contents should be viewable immediately, and should be complete -- currently often not so useful subjects. I suggest to introduce a search is performed and can take many seconds to complete. The search folder caching should update all relevant search folders at view into thunderbird with summary panels for every email with the time when a message arrivestraditional information, together with attachment names, so searching at first few lines of the moment email, maybe link to meeting scheduled in the user clicks on the search folder should not be necessarymail etc.
== Multiple email addresses for sending unify mailing list, newsgroup, and feed interfaces ==
I've got lots of email addresses at different providers, but they all share the same server side inbox (efrom [[http://www.gmelez., they are all collected by a Yahoo! mailbox)com/mykzilla/2005/11/handling-mailing-lists-newsgroups-and. Wouldn't it be nice to be able sending emails with all of these email addresses without having to create a dozen inbox accounts? At html my blog post on the moment (TB1.3) you can specify several SMTP server but you can't use them unless an account. --[[User:Manuel Strehl|Manuelsubject]] [[User talk:Manuel Strehl|(talk)]] 03:56, 30 Nov 2005 (PST)
Maybe what you're looking for is Users participate in discussions and receive announcements via a variety of delivery methods, including mailing lists, newsgroups, and feeds. Although these methods are all technologically different, users interact with them in roughly the "Identity" thing in Account Options? --[[Peter Beattie|Peter]]same ways. They subscribe to and unsubscribe from a source of discussion/announcements, collect its messages into folders, sometimes save those messages indefinitely, and other times periodically delete old messages.
Try Users don't care about the [http://absorbtechnology providing communication, they care about the communication itself.it/tikiwiki/tiki-indexSo the UI of a messaging client like Thunderbird shouldn't arbitrarily differentiate between delivery methods but rather focus on what users actually want to do with the messages they receive.php?page=VirtualIdentity VirtualIdentity] extension.--[[User:Vor0nwe|vor0nwe]] 08Thunderbird's UI should include the following features:47, 14 Dec 2005 (PST)
I know some guys wich have * ways of subscribing to sources (in this one regard, the UI may vary noticably between methods, since users tend to handle their messages with POP3 stumble upon them in different ways, and SMTP. And I am not able it may be difficult to configure it correctly hide some details of the subscription process);* when a user subscribes to handle it with a source, the client automatically creates a collection (a.k.a. "more than one smtp-serverfolder" ) in which to work properly! Maybe it is better to solve store the problem with "connecting an smtpsource's messages;* global and per-server source options (with sensible defaults) for receiving messages in the catching account like outlook Inbox, in a collection, or in both places;* readily-available contextual options (expressf.e. toolbar buttons, context menu items, buttons embedded into the message display, etc.)for managing sources (i.e. In outlook express every emailaccount is connected with incomming unsubscribing from them, changing their settings);* when a user receives a message from a discussion/announcement to which he isn't subscribed, readily-available contextual options for subscribing to it;* global and per-source options for deleting messages after a certain amount of time, a certain number of messages, or a certain amount of storage space;* a way to browse the list of all subscriptions and manage them;* a distinction between turning off message reception (pop3/imapeither temporarily or permanently) and outgoing removing the source and its messages completely (smtpnot sure which should be called "unsubscribing"; probably the former) account. --[[jamfx]];
== IMAPNote that unsubscribing from a mailing list is technically very different from unsubscribing from a feed, since mailing list subscriptions are stored on a list server. But from the user's perspective, it's irrelevant where or how the subscription is stored, since either way she wants the same thing: Let me chose in what folder to save sent stop receiving the messages ==. Users shouldn't have to learn two different UIs for doing the same thing just because the technology behind their behavior differs, just like they shouldn't have to learn different ways of accelerating depending on whether their car has a carburetor or fuel injection; Thunderbird should handle those details under the hood.
In order For feeds, that means no longer polling the feed. For mailing lists, it means interacting with the server to hold threads together I would like cancel the subscription. And even though there's no standard way to be asked before sending unsubscribe from a message in what folder mailing list, most lists are run by one of a small set of list server packages which are identifiable from the headers they add to save the message. If messages, so it is an answer or 's possible to implement a forward, the folder where the original message lives in should be the defaultfew package-specific handlers that can automate unsubscribing from 99% of lists.
[[User:kreatifworx|kreatifworx]]: That is exactly what I would like to see. I use three email clients on three different computers (unfortunately I have to) and every client software has created its own IMAP directories like "sent", "outbox", "trash", "junk" and so on. It would be very fine if I could eliminate some of these redundant directories.== better Thunderbird source->folder mapping management ==
== New structuring Thunderbird users may have only a handful of accounts, but they have numerous discrete serial sources of information, including mailing lists, individual newsgroups, and visualization features ==feeds. With filters, the global Inbox, and Forumzilla's arbitrary feed->folder mappings, users have a great deal of flexibility about where they put their messages. But the more source->folder mappings they add, the harder it is for them to remember which mail goes where, and adding mappings is challenging for ordinary users.
Implement new mail structuring Thunderbird's UI for source->folder mappings is scattered across multiple Account Preferences pages and visualization features like done in [http://wwwFilters dialogs.research Forumzilla adds yet another dialog for managing feed subscriptions.ibm.com/remail/index Users need a better way to view these mappings and change them.html IBM remail]
== Colored EMail index ==I suggest we add a "sources" pane to the left of the Thunderbird folder pane. The pane, when displayed, would feature a list of sources with arrows pointing from them to their folders. Users would be able to drag arrows to different folders to change where sources write their messages. And they'd be able to double-click a source to get more detailed configuration options, which could be just the existing account, filter, and feed preferences dialogs.
In the mail index, the text color should be customizable Changing a source->folder mapping for each messagea feed means changing its "target folder" preference. Depending on whether messages match For a mailing list it might mean creating or updating a certain patternfilter. For example But these are backend differences; to the user, with a certain configuration all mails from it's the linux kernel mailinglsit same action, and it should be shown in red and work the same for all from the thunderbird developers mailing list should be shown bluesources.
I'd also like to be able to mark messages so that they appear with a solid bar of colour behind them; someone seems to have hack for this with the userchrome.css file on linux, but I haven't seen it for windows. i.e. I would like mails to appear as they do when you first mark them, with say white or black text against a solid red/blue/yellow etc. background. I'm requesting this because it would make them more easily == Mark unanswered E-Mails automatically clearly visible; I can't always pick them out at a glance even when I've marked them. Sorry if this has already been requested elsewhere, Luke==
== Synchronize locale messages with POP3 server account ==Unanswered but read mails should be '''automatically''' clearly marked as unanswered.This should occur in a visible way, like you normally label Mails! (Or like in Outlook!) This helps to "work off /execute" the remaining E-Mails.If some one migh change this appearence he should be able to do it in the Options Menu.
Since 90% of the users have POP3 accounts it should be considered == E-Mail context menu options to add a better synchronization of locale stored messages with the messages on the server account (see also "http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=135107&highlight="). The intention ist to give the user the most possible control over his POP3 account and allow to retrieve messages to several computers. This also allows to use the POP3 account as a backup store in case of a locale failure, allows to mark messages as locked (never deleted), etc and allows to delete stray messages on the server which should have deleted before.
== Folder selection through popup box when I would like to be able to use a ?Copy E-Mail Address“?and ?Configure message filter(s) based on this message“ "dialog" via the context menu of a message which is just hovered over via mouse in the Inbox or equivalent folder pane hidden ==. This would provide a more efficient working capacity by - amongst others - guarantee a faster message filter implementation.
This allows to still be able to switch between folders even if the folder pane is hidden. This popup box may be show always or only when folder pain hidden (see also [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=18172&highlight= Folder selection through combo box] and [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?tDifferent Certificates for different Identities =60707&highlight= Combo box for folder selection]).
== Verbose E-mail folders ==You can define an identity, but you can't add a different certificate to this! Enigmail perhaps allows several PGP setting for this identitys too. so This whould be an nice enhancement for me ;)
Currently, you can only browse == Restrictions to E-Mail Sending through your email by clicking the emails and reading them, or you must read the often not so useful subjects. I suggest to introduce a view into thunderbird with summary panels for every email with the traditional informationan "Administrator", together with attachment namesEnigmail, first few lines of the email, maybe link to meeting scheduled in the mail etc.LDAP ==
== Extended Filter options ==There should be the possibility for the Administrator of the Mozilla Thunderbird Installation / Options / Settings to block the attempt to send messages to certain E-Mail Adresses. The E-Mail Adresses itself shouldn't be available to save in Adressbook or somewhere else.
Filters in current versions of TB have an option for The second thing is, that there should be a filter so that to some E-Mail Adresses you '''any of the followingcan only' or 'all of the following' which is either a giant union or intersection of all filter rules. It would be very useful if we could make more complex boolean expressionssent with PGP/GPG, to some only without and also one setting for changing an account as like adding OR and AND between the different rules. Furthermore, itwould be helpful if from this account you could import filters into filtersonly can send with PGP/GPG.
It The point about this is, this should be somehow available to administrate apart from the other settings. But at least it would also be nice okay to create filters from mailsintegrate the things (except of the last, ewhich is possible in common via enigmail also now) without a separated administrator area.g. mails from any of the recipients of a certain message should be moved to a folder.
If it's possible Also there should be more help to link a filter to a list in the addressbook, e.g. if the sender matches any of the members in the list, move the mail to a folder, that would save the double work to manage the list both in the addressbook and the filtersuccessfully use / install an LDAP Server.
Added comment: Also Demon Turnpike== Insert a Export-like regexps in text is needed. This would allow something like pe[n]+*s to cover pennis, pen1s and so on. I find some of my Turnpike single expressions turn into a dozen in TB.Importfunction for E-Mail! ==
It would be nice if you can start some script action, depending on your filter rules. E.g. start an alert bell if a mail comes in from Please insert a special sender. Scripts would ideally not be limited to some Thunderbird subexport-language, but could actually run files on the filesystem (such as Microsoft Entourage 2004 does). Thus, one could expand on the alert bell idea to have a script selectively run (and importfunction for e.g.-mail, Applescript on Mac OS) especially to turn up the computer's speakers and speak out the name of the senderbackup POP3- or IMAP-servers.
== unify mailing list, newsgroup, and feed interfaces Write/Update Support for IMAP ACL (shared folders) or LDAP ==
(from [[http://wwwTo maintain a network centered contact directory, independent of clientsor operating systems, writing to shared folders or directories should be enabled.melezOf course there are many configuration issues involved; probably LDAP "schema" files would have to be imported.com/mykzilla/2005/11/handling-mailing-lists-newsgroups-and.html my blog post on the subject]])
Users participate in discussions and receive announcements via a variety of delivery methods, including mailing lists, newsgroups, and feeds. Although Could these methods are all technologically different, users interact be "power user" features with them in roughly configuration by editing some text oriented "conf" files without the same ways. They subscribe to and unsubscribe from a source need of discussion/announcements, collect its messages into folders, sometimes save those messages indefinitely, and other times periodically delete old messages.UI tools?
Users don't care about the technology providing communication, they care about the communication itself. So the UI of a messaging client like Thunderbird shouldn't arbitrarily differentiate between delivery methods but rather focus on what users actually want to do with the messages they receive. Thunderbird's UI should include the following features:== More intelligent column options for different folders ==
* ways of subscribing It seems to sources (in this one regard, the UI may vary noticably between methods, since users tend me to stumble upon them be an absolute pain in different ways, and it may be difficult to hide some details of the subscription process);* when a user subscribes to a source, the client automatically creates a collection (a.kbutt that e.ag. "folder") in which whatever changes I make to store the source's messages;* global and per-source options (with sensible defaults) for receiving messages column display in a newsgroup also affect the Inbox, columns in a collection, or in both places;* readily-available contextual my primary inbox. There should be options (fto copy the relevant setting from another folder as well as to make e.eg. toolbar buttons, context menu items, buttons embedded into everything within a NG domain follow the message display, etcsame rules.) for managing sources (iThis is basically what [http://mnenhy.emozdev.org Mnenhy]'s Folder Storage options do. unsubscribing from them, changing their settings);* when a user receives a message from a discussion/announcement to which he isn't subscribed, readily-available contextual options for subscribing to it;* global and per-source options for deleting messages after a certain amount of time, a certain number of messages, or a certain amount of storage space;* a way to browse the list of all subscriptions and manage them;* a distinction between turning off message reception (either temporarily or permanently) and removing the source and its messages completely (not sure which should be called "unsubscribing"; probably the former);Peter
Note that unsubscribing from a mailing list is technically very different from unsubscribing from a feed, since mailing list subscriptions are stored on a list server. But from the user's perspective, it's irrelevant where == Selective quoting in replies or how the subscription is stored, since either way she wants the same thing: to stop receiving the messages. Users shouldn't have to learn two different UIs for doing the same thing just because the technology behind their behavior differs, just like they shouldn't have to learn different ways of accelerating depending on whether their car has a carburetor or fuel injection; Thunderbird should handle those details under the hood.forwards ==
For feeds, that means no longer polling the feed. For mailing lists, it means interacting with the server to cancel Most of the subscription. And even though theretime you don's no standard way t need to unsubscribe from a mailing list, most lists are run by one quote *all* of a small set the text of list server packages which are identifiable from the headers they add replied-to messagesmessage, so it's possible but only, say, a paragraph. It would be excellent to be able to implement a few package-specific handlers select just that can automate unsubscribing from 99% of listsin the original message, then click Reply and have only the selected bit show up as quoted text in the reply message.--Peter
== better Thunderbird sourceAllow Adress Book import from Outlook without it beeing the default E->folder mapping management Mail Client ==
Thunderbird users may have only Outlook is still used a handful of accountslot for Calendar/Adress Book, but they have numerous discrete serial sources of information, including mailing lists, individual newsgroups, and feedsso a real Adress Book syncronisation would be best. With filtersUntil this works though, the global Inbox, and Forumzilla's arbitrary feed->folder mappings, users have a great deal of flexibility about where they put their messages. But the more sourceworkaround would be to let Thunderbird Adressbook->folder mappings they addImport backup this Registry Value: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]@="Mozilla Thunderbird", the harder set it is for them to remember which mail goes where"Microsoft Outlook", do the import and adding mappings is challenging for ordinary usersthen resetting the previous Value.That would prevent the annoying neccesarity having to manually set Outlook as default E-Mail Client.Added a comment to corresponding Bug# 124486 --[[User:Stebs|Stebs]]
== Improved sorting and grouping of messages ==It would be great, if Thunderbird's UI for source->folder mappings is scattered across multiple Account Preferences pages could group/thread messages and sort threats by different criterias. Thus it will be possible to group the mails of one sender and Filters dialogssort the groups by date by the latest message of each group (as The Bat! does it). Forumzilla adds yet another dialog for managing feed subscriptionsI hope I put this proposal at the right place! See also http://tinyurl. Users need a better way to view these mappings com/dvkpk and change themhttp://tinyurl.com/ba34h (german Thunderbird-Board).
: I suggest we add 'd like to second the call for a "sources" pane self-threading feature, and provide an example of how this becomes important to the left myself (and likely others):: I do a lot of the Thunderbird folder paneonline purchasing on various websites, some are designed well enough to provide me with a single email containing everything from confirmation to postal tracking number. The panePurchases from others, when displayedespecially those who serve only as intermediary, would feature results in many emails ''from different email addresses'' '''and''' ''over a list span of sources time'' (these two combined is what actually makes my current Thunderbird very difficult to use). : A case study: Today I'm having some trouble with arrows pointing an item I was sent on eBay.com. My mailbox has emails from: eBay (confirmation that I won the item), the seller (an invoice), Paypal.com (reciept), an email or two from the United States Postal Service (tracking of the package), an email from them myself to their foldersthe seller about how the item was not as described. Users would be Now that I have a problem and need to provide eBay with all this information, I've got no easy way to collect it. Searching can get one or two per search term, but that's not really simple. I ''could'' have created a folder for each item I purchase online, but that's really overkill. I'm ''almost'' happy with Gmail's mechanism for "tagging" and item, but I think the combination of moving email in folders and being able to actually decide which items do or don't go into a thread is far more useful.:The way I imagine this implemented is to have the following abilities::# Create thread from message(s) : this creates a thread whose name is identical to that of the message subject:# Rename thread : obvious, to allow a more readable/searchable title:# Add message(s) to thread : possibly by drag arrows -and-drop:# Remove message(s) from thread : obvious:See [[#Step_4:_Threading.2FGrouping_of_Messages|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]: Many thanks to different folders the Thunderbird team for this awesome product. I hope to change where sources write their messagesjoin some day (but have only just graduated college and yadda yadda yadda). And theyI don't know how complicated this feature would be to implement, but if one of the developers tells me it would be relatively simple, I'd be able glad to have you tell me to double-click a source do it myself. Send it to get more detailed configuration options, which could be just the existing my Gmail account: ''mkazin@...''.:-- [[User:MJKazin|MJKazin]] 08:17, filter, and feed preferences dialogs.23 July 2006 (PDT)
Changing a source->folder mapping ==Display free space on IMAP server in Thunderbird's main window==It would be nice, if you could see in the main Thunderbird window, next to each IMAP account, how much space there is available on the IMAP server for a feed means changing its "target folder" preferencethis account and how much of this space is still free. For a mailing list it might mean creating or updating a filterCurrently this information is hidden in the preferences dialogue of the IMAP folders. But these are backend differences; to the userMost mail providers have huge POP3 accounts, but only comparatively small IMAP accounts. So it's the same actionwould be useful, and it should work if there was an easy way for keeping an eye on the same for all sourcesfree IMAP space with Thunderbird.
== Mark unanswered E-Mails automatically clearly visible Mailbox Dispatcher ==There is just one reason i am not user Thunderbird: It does not have a mailbox dispatcher like TheBat for example. I am just using a modem so downloading large files is a problem and besides I would rather like to know which mails are on the mail server before I download them. Just using the "filter" options is not enough.
Unanswered but read mails should be '''automatically''' clearly marked as unanswered.This should occur in a visible way, like you normally label Mails! (Or like in Outlook!) This helps to "work off /execute" the remaining E-Mails.If some one migh change this appearence he should be able to do it in the Options Menu.== completely new address book ==
== E-Mail context menu options A great step to add ==make Thunderbird more comfortable would be a completely new address book like the one there is on Mac OS X.In Apple's address book you can create as many entries for a contact as you want, e.g. several email addresses, the date of birth and the like.Wouldn't that be nice? I can imagine that this could also advantage the development of syncing applications for mobile phones, PDA's and so on.[[User:kreatifworx|kreatifworx]]
I would like Currently if you have an address in more than one Address Book (e.g. friends and company) and you have to be able to use a �Copy Emake changes (email-Mail Address“�and �Configure message filter(schanged...) based on you have to make this message“ "dialog" via the context menu of a message which is just hovered over via mouse changes in EVERY Address Book. Something like categories or links would improve the Inbox or equivalent folderusability. This I would provide a more efficient working capacity by prefer categories like the Address Book in KOrganizer. - amongst others - guarantee [[User:AliB|aliB]] Categories would especially usefull for importing contacts from Outlook. Without categories switching from Outlook can be a faster message filter implementationreal problem.(moved here form misc) --[[User:Bierdrinker|Bierdrinker]] 06:56, 22 Dec 2005 (PST)
== Different Certificates for [[User:Rnapier|Rnapier]] adds: Rather than extend built-in address management capabilities in Thunderbird, I believe it would be better to hoist all contact management functionality out of Thuderbird and integrate with external tools via plugins (built-in OS address books, ACT!, Palm Desktop, etc.) Then if there is a desire, we can begin a separate contact management project to provide all the functionality listed above.:[[User:Rnapier|Rnapier]] 09:11, 17 Dec 2005 (PST) This is also a great idea, but: different Identities ==built-in OS address books have different capabilities, so what do you do in case you would like to have your addresses synced on several computers? And if a built-in address book has being changed? Someone would have to take care of these cases at any time.[[User:kreatifworx|kreatifworx]] 00:17, 16 Jan 2006 (PST)
You can define an identityAn integrated, cross-platform, but stand-alone address book would be a wonderful new Mozilla project. How many address books do you can't add have? I have my Thunderbird address book, my Palm address book (plus its desktop version), plus a different certificate to this! Enigmail perhaps allows several PGP setting database-based one that I use for this identitys tooaddress labels, etc. so This whould be ... Every time an nice enhancement for me ;)e-mail address changes, there are at least four places I want to put it. Ugh!
== Restrictions My idea of a Truly Terrific address book: small, fully portable, configurable mini-database that can (1) interface with Thunderbird's compose function, (2) drag-and-drop to Thunderbird, (3) sync to E-Mail Sending through an "Administrator"/from Palm, (4) print a simple envelope directly, (5) print simple address labels directly, and (6) export one or more addresses in RTF format or some such for use in a word processor for merges, etc. Searchable, of course, and with some kind of alias system so one database entry can appear in multiple categories, Enigmailas noted above. Plugins could exist for people who for some reason have to use Outlook, LDAP ==GroupWise or whatever.
There should be the possibility for the Administrator of the Mozilla ==Make Thunderbird Installation / Options / Settings to block the attempt to send messages to certain Ea "Complete PIM": Calendar and Todo List integration -Mail Adresses. The E-Mail Adresses itself shouldn't be available to save in Adressbook or somewhere else. Sync with PocketPC==
The second thing isTo Replace my current PIM , that there should be a filter so that Thunderbird (plus addons) would have to some E-Mail Adresses you '''can only''' be sent with PGP/GPG, able to some only without also manage a Calendar and also one setting a Todo List All three components should have a seamless support for changing an account as like from this account you only can send with PGP/GPGreminders, priorisations et al.
The point about this is, this should be somehow available to administrate apart from the other settings. But at least it would also be okay to integrate the things (except of the lastAlso, today I sync my PIM with an iPaq Pocket PC which is not yet possible in common via enigmail also for the Mozilla Tools up to now) without a separated administrator area...
Also there should 08:15, 9 March 2007 (PST)I second this, and would be more interested in beta testing or providing any help I possibly can to successfully use / install an LDAP Serverget this underway. --[[User:k0rtnie|k0rtnie]]
== Insert a Export- and Importfunction for E-Mail! Auto compress folders after relative changes in size ==
Please insert At the moment the auto compressing of folder will only be applied after an absolute value of the file size. More interesting is an automatically compressing when the folder size is increased by a exportvalue or after a number of changes (new e- and importfunction for mails). Important, if one collect e-mail, especially to backup POP3by e- or IMAP-serversmail over years without a general clean up of the folder. An automated periodically compression is OK and necessary but not every times.
== Write/Update Support for IMAP ACL (shared folders) or LDAP ==
To maintain == Show size and First Headline while downloading mails == I find it very useful immidiately have a network centered contact directory, independent short view about the size end object (headline) of clientsor operating systems, writing every mail while downloading. That enables me to shared folders or directories should be enabledstop a download soon. Of course there are many configuration issues involved; probably LDAP "schema" files would Useful when You have to be importeda very slow connection.
Could these be "power user" features == Integration with configuration by editing some text oriented "conf" files without the need of UI tools?native Addressbooks ==
== More intelligent column options for different folders ==I would suggest a better Integration with the local address books of the most common IDEs. Thunderbird should be able to use the Evolution, KDE, MacOS, Outlook or Windows address book. This would realize a better Integration in the Desktop. --[[User:Driessel|Driessel]] 00:52, 11 Dec 2005 (PST)
It seems I'd like to me add onto this suggestion. Contact management isn't a "mail" function. Users use contact information for many non-mail applications such as IM, calendars (birthdays), mailing labels, phone numbers, etc. Trying to be an absolute pain manage contact information in the butt that email app is extremely limiting.g. whatever changes I make A better solution is to rely entirely on external apps for rich functionality, while continuing to provide the column display current built-in functionality as a newsgroup also affect the columns in my primary inboxbasic stub. There should be options to copy the relevant setting from another folder as well as If Mozilla would like to make e.g. everything within create a NG domain follow the same rulesfeature-rich contact management solution, that belongs outside of Thunderbird IMO. (This is basically what -- [[httpUser://mnenhy.mozdev.org MnenhyRnapier|Rnapier]]'s Folder Storage options do.09:44, 17 Dec 2005 (PST) --Peter
== Selective quoting When I was using Mozilla Mail I managed to link my .wab address book into Mozilla's address book; I can't figure out how I did it let alone replicate in replies or forwards ==Thunderbird. What I most want is a way of sharing an address book between users
Most of the time you don't need to quote *all* of the text of the replied-to message, but only, say, a paragraph. It would be excellent to be able to select just that in the original message, then click Reply and have only the selected bit show up as quoted text == create an email group in the reply message. --Peteraddress book from an email ==
== Allow Adress Book import from Outlook without it beeing From an email I receive that goes to many people I'd like to take over ALL email addresses into the default E-Mail Client ==address book and then have a group created.
Outlook is still used a lot for Calendar/Adress Book, so a real Adress Book syncronisation would I'm clear that this might be bestmisused. Until this works though, a workaround would So it could be limited to let Thunderbird Adressbook-Import backup this Registry Value: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]@="Mozilla Thunderbird", set it to "Microsoft Outlook", do the import and then resetting be available only when my own email address is in the previous ValueTo or cc field.That would prevent the annoying neccesarity having to manually set Outlook as default E-Mail Client. Added a comment to corresponding Bug# 124486 --[[User:Stebs|Stebs]]
== Improved sorting and grouping of messages ==It would be great, if Thunderbird could group/thread messages and sort threats by different criterias. Thus it will be possible to group the mails of one sender and sort the groups by date by the latest message of each group (as The Bat! does it).I hope I put this proposal at the right place! See also http://tinyurl.com/dvkpk and http://tinyurl.com/ba34h (german Thunderbird-Board).Thanks
: I'd like == Reminder Flag to second the call for a self-threading feature, and provide an example of how this becomes important to myself (and likely others):: I do a lot of online purchasing on various websites, some are designed well enough to provide me with a single email containing everything from confirmation to postal tracking number. Purchases from others, especially those who serve only as intermediary, results in many emails ''from different email addresses'' '''and''' ''over a span of time'' (these two combined is what actually makes my current Thunderbird very difficult to use). : A case study: Today I'm having some trouble with an item I was sent on eBay.com. My mailbox has follow up emails from: eBay (confirmation that I won the item), the seller (an invoice), Paypal.com (reciept), an email or two from the United States Postal Service (tracking of the package), an email from myself to the seller about how the item was not as described. Now that I have a problem and need to provide eBay with all this information, I've got no easy way to collect it. Searching can get one or two per search term, but that's not really simple. I ''could'' have created a folder for each item I purchase online, but that's really overkill. I'm ''almost'' happy with Gmail's mechanism for "tagging" and item, but I think the combination of moving email in folders and being able to actually decide which items do or don't go into a thread is far more useful.:The way I imagine this implemented is to have the following abilities::# Create thread from message(s) : this creates a thread whose name is identical to that of the message subject:# Rename thread : obvious, to allow a more readable/searchable title:# Add message(s) to thread : possibly by drag-and-drop:# Remove message(s) from thread : obvious:See [[#Step_4:_Threading.2FGrouping_of_Messages|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]: Many thanks to the Thunderbird team for this awesome product. I hope to join some day (but have only just graduated college and yadda yadda yadda). I don't know how complicated this feature would be to implement, but if one of the developers tells me it would be relatively simple, I'd be glad to have you tell me to do it myself. Send it to my Gmail account: ''mkazin@...''.:-- [[User:MJKazin|MJKazin]] 08:17, 23 July 2006 (PDT)==
==Display free space on IMAP server in Thunderbird's main window==It would be nice, if you could see in the main Thunderbird window, next to each IMAP account, how much space there is available on the IMAP server for this account and how much I often deal with mails that need some sort of this space is still free. Currently this information is hidden in the preferences dialogue of the IMAP folders. Most mail providers have huge POP3 accounts, but only comparatively small IMAP accounts. So it would be useful, if there was an easy way for keeping an eye on the free IMAP space with Thunderbirdfollow up.
== Mailbox Dispatcher ==There is just one reason i am not user Thunderbird: It does not have a mailbox dispatcher like TheBat for example. I am just using a modem so downloading large files is A reminder flag with a problem and besides I would rather like to know which mails are on the mail server before I download them. Just using the "filter" options date is not enough.desperately wanted!
== completely new address book ==It could then show up as a reminder pop up or at least a folder showing all reminders (for each account as well as ALL accounts together).
A great step to make Thunderbird more comfortable would be a completely new address book like the one there is on Mac OS X.In Apple's address book you can create as many entries for a contact as you want, e.g. several email addresses, the date of birth and the like.Wouldn't that be nice? I can imagine that this could also advantage the development of syncing applications for mobile phones, PDA's and so on.[[User:kreatifworx|kreatifworx]]Thanks
Currently if you have an address in more than one Address Book == sorting messages by subject (e.g. friends and company) and you have to make changes (email-changed...) you have to make this changes in EVERY Address Book. Something like categories or links would improve the usability. I would prefer categories like the Address Book in KOrganizer. --[[User:AliB|aliB]] Categories would especially usefull for importing contacts from Outlook. Without categories switching from Outlook can be a real problem. (moved here form misc) --[[User:Bierdrinker|Bierdrinker]] 06:56, 22 Dec 2005 (PSTas thread)==
[[User:Rnapier|Rnapier]] adds: Rather than extend built-in address management capabilities in Thunderbird, I believe it would be better This is already possbible right now to hoist all contact management functionality out of Thuderbird and integrate with external tools via plugins (built-in OS address books, ACT!, Palm Desktop, etc.) Then if there is a desire, we can begin a separate contact management project to provide all the functionality listed abovecertain extend but not fully as required practically.:[[User:Rnapier|Rnapier]] 09:11, 17 Dec 2005 (PST)
This is also a great idea, but: different built-in OS address books have different capabilities, so what do you do in case you (1) I would like need to have your addresses synced on several computers? And if a built-in address book has being changed? Someone would have be able to take care of these cases at any time.[[User:kreatifworx|kreatifworx]] 00:17, 16 Jan 2006 edit the subject line (PSTas requested by others here already)
An integrated, cross-platform, stand-alone address book would be a wonderful new Mozilla project. How many address books do you have? I have my Thunderbird address book, my Palm address book (plus its desktop version2), plus a database-based one I would need an option to enter words or abbreviations that get stripped off the subject line as I use for address labelswork with people in Germany a lot, etcwhere there is no "Re." ... Every time an e-mail address changes, there are at least four places it's either "Antw." or "Antwort" or the like. So if I want to put itcould edit this list myself (in the preferences), that would do a terrific job. Ugh!
My idea of a Truly Terrific address book: small, fully portable, configurable mini-database that can (13) interface with Thunderbird's compose function, (2) drag-andfinally -drop to Thunderbird, (3) sync to/from Palm, (4) print the top would be a simple envelope directly, (5) print simple address labels directly, and (6) export one or more addresses in RTF format or some such for use in display as a word processor for mergesthread, etc. Searchable, of course, and with some kind of alias system so one database entry can appear in multiple categories, as noted above. Plugins could exist for people who for some reason have to use Outlook, GroupWise or whateverbut that's not essential.
==Make Thunderbird a "Complete PIM": Calendar and Todo List integration - Sync with PocketPC==Thanks
To Replace my current PIM , Thunderbird See [[#Step_4:_Threading.2FGrouping_of_Messages|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (plus addonsin 4 Steps) would have to be able to also manage a Calendar and a Todo List All three components should have a seamless support for reminders, priorisations et al.]]
Also, today I sync my PIM with an iPaq Pocket PC which is not yet possible for the Mozilla Tools up to now== Editing incoming messages ==
08A client of mine works with Outlook mainly because of this functionality:15since he is using email as a real conversation tool and an essential tool to work on documents really, 9 March 2007 (PST)I second this, and would it is essential for him to be interested in beta testing or providing any help I possibly can able to get this underwayedit a message someone sent to him. --[[User:k0rtnie|k0rtnie]]
== Auto compress folders after relative changes in size ==Editing as a plain new message (i.e. more or less a response) as it is possible today is not the same.
At the moment the auto compressing of folder will only be applied after an absolute value of the file size. More interesting If this for some reason is an automatically compressing when not possible, the folder size is increased by a value or after a number of changes (new e-mails). Important, if one collect e-edited mail by e-mail over years without message could be a general clean up of copy that lives parallel to the original mail (same folder, etc. An automated periodically compression ) and that has some sort of clear mark, that it is OK and necessary but not every timesNOT the original message.
Thanks
== Show size Agree. My request for Post-it note capability would accomplish the same. But, some means of making notation incoming mail is desperately needed. The "copy" or "forward" work-arounds are clumsy and First Headline while downloading mails ==cluttering and often confusing, just by the nature of being a work-around rather than a solution!
Addendum:Shortly after I find it very useful immidiately have enter the above, I got a short view response to a Mozillazine forum query about the size end object (headline) of every mail while downloadingsubject. That enables me to stop a download soon. Useful when You have a very slow connection The following link extension has been installed and used. It fits my needs and others's too, I presume
== Integration with native Addressbooks ==https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/759/
I would suggest a better Integration with the local address books of the most common IDEs. Thunderbird should be able to use the Evolution, KDE, MacOS, Outlook or Windows address book. This would realize a better Integration == Several well described feature requests in the Desktop. --[[User:Driessel|Driessel]] 00:52, 11 Dec 2005 (PST)German ==
I'd like to add onto this suggestionhave described several missing features in German in my tip collection for Thunderbird:http://borumat. Contact management isn't a "mail" function. Users use contact information for many nonde/thunderbird-mail applications such as IM, calendars (birthdays), mailing labels, phone numbers, etc. Trying to manage contact information in the mail app is extremely limiting. A better solution is to rely entirely on external apps for rich functionality, while continuing to provide the current builtemail-in functionality as a basic stubtipps. If Mozilla would like to create a featurephp#fulltoc-rich contact management solution, that belongs outside anliegenMaybe some of Thunderbird IMO. you devolopers can read German and regard it as useful?-- [[User:Rnapier|Rnapier]] 09:44, 17 Dec 2005 (PST)Andreas Borutta
When I was using Mozilla Mail I managed to link my .wab address book into Mozilla's address book; I can't figure out how I did it let alone replicate in Thunderbird. What I most want is a way of sharing an address book between users== Insert text as external quote ==
== create an email group in the address book The usual quote initial for a quoted text which comes from an email ==external source, e.g. a website, is "|".
From an email I receive that goes suggest to many people I'd like to take over ALL email addresses into the address book and then have add a group creatednew command, "insert as external quote".
I'm clear that this might be misused. So If it could be limited to be available only when my own email address is in were added, the To or cc fieldcommand "Rewrap" should work for such external quotes as well.
ThanksA more detailed description of the suggestion enriched with examples can be found at http://borumat.de/thunderbird-email-tipps.php#externes-zitat-anliegenThis text is in German.--Andreas Borutta
== Reminder Flag to follow up emails Protect specific lines being wrapped ==
I often deal with mails that need some sort Sometimes special parts of follow uptext should not be wrapped.
A reminder flag In the news- and mail-client "40tude Dialog" the user could protect marked lines with a date is desperately wanted!command from beeing wrapped.
It could then show up as a reminder pop up or at least a folder showing all reminders (for each account I suggest to implement this into Thunderbird as well as ALL accounts together).
ThanksThis suggestion you could find in German on http://borumat.de/thunderbird-email-tipps.php#umbruch-ausgewaehlter-zeilen-verhindern enriched with examples.--Andreas Borutta
== sorting messages by Show subject in threads only one time - show names in position of subject (as thread) ==
This In the view of an expanded thread the subject is already possbible right now to a certain extend but not fully as required practicallyrepeated multiple times. That is redundant. It reduces the readability.
(1) I would need know a way to be able to edit display an expanded thread quite more readable.Only the first subject is displayed.In the first answer the name is shown at the positon of the subject. The column with the name will stay empty.Screenshot:http://borumat.de/bilder/thunderbird/subject line (as requested by others here already)-nicht-wiederholen.png
(2) I would need an option to enter words or abbreviations that get stripped off the If a subject line as I work with people in Germany changes inside a lotthread, where there is no "Re." ... there it's either "Antw." or "Antwort" or the like. So if I could edit this list myself (in the preferences), that would do a terrific job.first changed subject will be displayed again with two columns: subject and name
(3) finally - the top would be a display as a thread, but that's not essential. Thanks-Andreas Borutta
See [[#Step_4:_Threading.2FGrouping_of_Messages|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]
== Editing incoming messages Heading of Accounts (IMAP) ==
A client of mine works with Outlook mainly because The Headings of Accounts is in bold-face. For better working this functionality: since he is using email as a real conversation tool and an essential tool to work on documents really, it is essential for him to be able to edit a message someone sent to himshould by normal-face or - optimum - individual configuration in user-settings.
Editing as a plain new message (i.e. more or less a response) as it is possible today is not the same.== New Mails in IMAP-Folders ==
If this for some reason It is not possible, the edited mail message could be a copy that lives parallel very difficult to the original mail (same foldersee, etcwhen new Mails in an account are available.) and that has some sort of clear markSome themes provide somewhat better optical reminders, that it but this is NOT the original messagestill not enough.
ThanksBest method will be:
Agree. My request for Post-it note capability would accomplish Account-Heading not in bold-face- if new mails are available, open the same. But, some means folder of this account- change face of making notation incoming mail is desperately needed. The "copy" account-heading to bold (or "forward" workother color) -arounds are clumsy and cluttering and often confusing, just by the nature mark input-folder of being account with a workthumb, bold-around rather than a solution!face or other color.
Addendum:Shortly after I enter the above, I got a response to a Mozillazine forum query about the subject. The following link extension has been installed and used. It fits my needs and others's too, I presume== Delayed message delivery ==
https://addonsBeing able to set a certain time and date in the future for TB to send a particular message -- just as e.mozillag.org/thunderbird/759/Eudora does -- would be nice to have. (And should be easy to implement, I imagine...) --Peter
== Filter for all accounts Remove LDAP, add it back as an extension ==
If you create a filter for eSee https://bugzilla.gmozilla. "username@provider.com", the filter doesn't have any affect on account "username2@provider.com"org/show_bug.cgi?id=282223
There should be an optionIn general, if you want Thunderbird needs to create the filter for only have more extension points. In this accountcase, for an easy way to add in additional providers of address books and address lookup would be a huge benefit. Perhaps a new LDAP extension would result, or perhaps some special other type of address store would be created (menue-list) e.g. simple web service system, or for all accounts...)Judging by the comments here, address lookup and the address book appear to be among the bigger grievance points. This would allow for a lot of experimentation in this space.
It's very useful, I think... I think it could be alredy in Thunderbird 1.5? Or isn't the idea bad? ;-)== Tagging and Hierarchical search ==
DearI notice that better tagging support made the officially planned feature list. Along with this, MCXSCit would be good to see a lot of the UI and searching features that the leader in this space has done (GMail).* make it simple to tag things* eliminate custom folders, there are only tags
== Several well described feature requests Along these same lines, add in German ==hierarchical search.Start from multiple roots, and drill down until you find the mail you're looking for:* Contacts** John*** Tags**** Project1**** Project2** Anne* Tags** Project1** Project2
I have described several missing features in German in my tip collection for Thunderbird:http://borumatEvery one of these levels would display all of the messages below (allow sorting by all columns, including date).de/thunderbird Each level would also allow arbitrary searching (right-email-tippsclick on John below contacts, select search, and then enter in text based search against that context).php#fulltoc-anliegenMaybe some of you devolopers can read German and regard it as useful?--Andreas Borutta
== Insert text as external quote Mail-History ==
The usual quote initial for I'll found it very usefull to have a quoted text which comes from an external source, Mail-History... e.g. a website, is "|".:
I suggest to add a new command, "insert as external quote"Dezember 12th 2005: - username@provider.com - Mailheader 1 - Mailheader 2 - username2@provider.com - Mailheader 1 - Mailheader 2...
If it were added, the command "Rewrap" should work for such external quotes as well.MCXSC
A more detailed description of the suggestion enriched with examples can be found at http:== vCard export//borumat.de/thunderbird-email-tipps.php#externes-zitat-anliegenThis text is in German.--Andreas Boruttaimport ==
== Protect specific lines being wrapped ==I think a vCard import/export is very usefull... Thunderbird 1.0.x doesn't have any function for it... an there are no extensions.... It's really usefull, e.g. to exchange contacts...
Sometimes special parts of text should not be wrapped.MCXSC
In the news- and mail-client "40tude Dialog" the user could protect marked lines with a command from beeing wrapped.
I suggest to implement this into from Thunderbird as well.-User1:
This suggestion you could find in German on http:Thunderbird 2.0 must have a vCard import//borumatexport function.de/thunderbirdAlmost every MacUser complains about that, because their contacts are saved as vcards, and also iPod-emailUser or users of different Mail-tippsPrograms which use vCard have often talked about this very important feature. Additionally you get more business users who use vcards.php#umbruchSo please implement this must-ausgewaehlter-zeilen-verhindern enriched with exampleshave feature into the next generation of Thunderbird.--Andreas Borutta
== Show subject in threads only one time Thunderbird- show names in position of subject ==User1
In the view of an expanded thread the subject :Not just for Mac users. While Organizer (faithful old friend that it is repeated multiple times. That ) does CSV files, it is redundant. It reduces the readabilitylots easier to do vCard exports from its phonebooks; should also import easier.--[[User:Djenner|Djenner]] 19:20, 25 August 2006 (PDT)
08:18, 9 March 2007 (PST)I very much agree with this statement. I know a way 'm not sure if we're allowed to display an expanded thread quite more readable.Only the first subject is displayed.In the first answer the name is shown at the positon of the subject. The column with the name will stay emptyvote.Screenshot:Phttp://borumat.de/bilder/thunderbird/subject-nicht-wiederholen.png[[User:k0rtnie|k0rtnie]]
If a subject changes inside a thread, the first changed subject will be displayed again with two columns: subject and name== Shared address book support ==
--Andreas BoruttaSimilar to a previous Feature request (LDAP as extension), but more to the point.
See [[#Step_4Would like to have some sort of shared address book support. At a minimum, this would:_Threading.2FGrouping_of_Messages|Major Usability Redesign * query against an external source when looking up email addresses (possibly with an extension to allow multiple types) * Allow for the launching of Folders & Threads a tool to manage this external address book (in 4 Stepse.g. URL or simply an external app)]]
== Heading of Accounts (IMAP) Some things, which would be great.... ==
1. The Headings of Accounts compression feature is a great method to reduce storage size, but it's very unpractically. I think in bold-face. For better working this the next release there should by normal-face or - optimum - individual configuration in user-settingsbe a autocompress feature after deleting a various number of messages, not about the complete size of the profile.
== New Mails 2. The possibility to export complete folders with right-click (or all message older than ..) in an archive, that should be also opened as like an additional profile. Like the feature in Outlook to export all message older than .. in IMAPan separated .pst-Folders ==file.
It is very difficult 3. The possibility to see, when new Mails in show additional header information and the complete mailsource with an account are availablerightclick of a message.Some themes provide somewhat better optical reminders, but this is still not enoughNot with Ctrl+U or clicking in the menu.
Best method will be:== Separate Window for E-Mail header before fetching mails ==
I would appreciate a separate window showing a list of new mails on the POP- AccountServer (which is generated using only the mail headers) with the ability to easily remove some mails from the list which causes them to be removed from the POP-Heading not in bold-faceserver.A separate window would lead to a much more comprehensible behaviour compared to the "Fetch headers only" option which silently deletes mails from the POP- server if new the header-only mails are available, open deleted or moved to the junk folder of .So many users have asked for this accountfeature in the german forum.- change face Here you can view a screenshot of account-heading to bold (or other color) such a window:http://files.korni- mark input-folder of account with a thumb, bold-face or other colorwelt.de/auswahl.gif
== Delayed message delivery ==some possible options:*delete msg from server*download msg from server*remain untouched on server*download and remain on server*move directly into junk
Being able to set == Integration of a certain time and date in the future for TB to send a particular message -- just as e.g. Eudora does -- would be nice to have. (And should be easy to implement, I imagine...) --PeterCalendar + Birthdays ==
== Remove LDAPIntegrate a Calendar like the iCalendar plugin into thunderbird, add such that reminders are able when the calendar is not open. Another important thing for me is to have a birthday field for my contacts. These birthdays should generate automatically a repeating calendar entry. Then it back as an extension ==would be perfect for me. Another nice-to-have thing is syncronisation with PDAs but yet not so important to me.
See https://bugzillaI wish not only birthdays but other anniversary fields too.mozilla(In Hungary we have namedays.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282223)
In general, - There's already a Calendar Extension for Thunderbird needs to have more extension points. In this case, an easy way to add in additional providers of address books and address lookup would be Lightning is a huge benefit. Perhaps a new LDAP extension would result, or perhaps some other type of address store would be created (e.g. simple web service system, or ...)Judging by the comments here, address lookup and the address book appear project to be among integrate the bigger grievance points. This would allow for a lot of experimentation in this spaceCalendar into Thunderbird fully.
== Tagging and Hierarchical search Server protocoll ==
One reason I notice that better tagging support made prefer AK-Mail to Thunderbird: There is a log of the officially planned feature listserver communication. Along with Would be great, if this, it would be good to see is possible in a lot future version of the UI and searching features that the leader in this space has done (GMail)Thunderbird.* make it simple It helps to tag things* eliminate custom folders, there are only tagsanalyse errors...
Along these same linesPOP3: Verbinde zum Host-Rechner [pop.gmx.net] am Samstag, add in hierarchical searchden 24.Dezember 2005 11:46:40<br>Start from multiple roots, and drill down until you find the mail you're looking forPOP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK GMX POP3 StreamProxy ready [...]<br>* ContactsPOP3: 11:46:40 [tx] APOP [...]<br>** JohnPOP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK mailbox has 2 messages (186120 octets)<br>*** TagsPOP3: 11:46:40 [tx] STAT<br>**** Project1POP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK 2 186120<br>**** Project2POP3: 11:46:40 [tx] LIST<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK mailbox has 2 messages (186120 octets)<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [tx] UIDL<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK mailbox has 2 messages (186120 octets)<br>** AnnePOP3: 11:46:41 [tx] RETR 2<br>* TagsPOP3: 11:46:41 [rx] +OK message follows<br>** Project1POP3: 11:46:41 [tx] QUIT<br>** Project2POP3: 11:46:41 [rx] +OK bye<br>
Every one of these levels would display all of the messages below (allow sorting by all columns, including date). Each level would also allow arbitrary searching (right-click on John below contacts, select search, and then enter in text based search against that context).== Automated deletion ==
== One reason I prefer AK-Mail-History ==to Thunderbird: It supports automated deletion of messages from the trash folder of an individual account:
I'll found it very usefull to There is a per-account setting "Delete messages from trash folder, after they have resided XX days in the trash folder". This way the days of being in trash are relevant, not the date of the message! It is a Mailnice feature to keep the trash fullness low, but provide the chance of restoring messages within some day-History... e.grange, if I recognize having deleted them by accident.:
Dezember 12th 2005: - username@provider.com - Mailheader 1 - Mailheader 2 - username2@provider.com - Mailheader 1 - Mailheader 2...== Robust automated fetching and sending ==
MCXSCOne reason I prefer AK-Mail to Thunderbird is the possibility to configure independent intervalls for automated fetching and sending messages -- per account.
== vCard export/import ==When fetching or sending the unsent messages fails, there is no annoying message-box you have to click away each time, but there is only a log entry to the account log. This is nice, because I have here often connection failures with my DSL. The e-mail client should be able to fetch and send whenever possible and don't annoy me, if it's not possible. If I want to, I'll have a look at the log...
I think a vCard import/export is very usefull... Thunderbird 1.0.x doesn't have any function for it... an there are no extensions.... It's really usefull, e.g. == Linking of attachments to exchange contacts...the file system instead of copying ==
MCXSCOne reason I prefer AK-Mail to Thunderbird: It is possible there to link attachments instead of copying them into the message. This way it is possible to create template messages with linked files. When I finally send the message, the current version of the file is taken from the file system.
== Custom Tabbar Location ==
Many people might like the upcoming tabbar for tabbed messages on top of the pane, but many eudora users will prefer them under the message pane. It would be great if this customization option could be part of TB 2.0 right from Thunderbird-User1:the start and the position wasn't hardwired.
Thunderbird 2.0 must have a vCard import/export function. Almost every MacUser complains about that, because their contacts are saved as vcards, and also iPod-User or users of different Mail-Programs which use vCard have often talked about this very important feature. Additionally you get more business users who use vcards. So please implement this must-have feature into the next generation of Thunderbird.== reply with template ==
Thunderbird-User1Although filed in Bugzilla as [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21210 bug 21210] I would like to have it in TB 2.0, integrated in the concept of discussions/threads.
:Not just for Mac users. While Organizer (faithful old friend that it is) does CSV files, it is lots easier to do vCard exports from its phonebooks; should also import easier.--[[User:Djenner|Djenner]] 19:20, 25 August 2006 (PDT)
08:18, 9 March 2007 (PST)== Double Key Encryption by Default ==I very much agree with this statement. I'm not sure if we're allowed propose that future releases of Thunderbird incorporate default encryption and signing of all email through a peer-to vote. :P-peer, double-[[User:k0rtnie|k0rtnie]]key encryption system, similar to PGP.
== Possibility to set "Junk" flag via filter ==I'm proposing a very simple system, essentially:
Hi,#) Thunderbird will include a double-key encryption system#) Thunderbird-originated emails will include a line "public key available" #) Thunderbird clients will automatically exchange keys when they spot #2#) Future messages between the two will automatically be encrypted
it The result would be greatthat all Thunderbird users would communicate securely between each other. Hopefully, if you can create a rule in the "filter" areacritical mass would be attained, that sets and all email clients would have a the "Junk"-flag for e-mailssame compatible encryption scheme.
s.g. All incomming mail should automatically marked as junkFor this to work, encryption must be ''default'' rather than an optional plug-in or extra effort if we are finally going to solve the subject line is emptyvulnerability of totally open email.
The system must be so simple as to be essentially transparent. What I'm suggesting is VERY simple: '' After the first email, the Thunderbird clients exchange public keys. All email after that is encrypted with no effort by the user.''
I feel very strongly that routine encryption of email is long overdue. The first time I used email in the late 80's, I was uncomfortable with the total lack of privacy. I can't believe this hasn'Edit by schiieech:''' That�s allready included in TB 1.5. It is called "Set Junk Status to".t been solved, yet!
== Shared address book support ==Can anyone else jump on this bandwagon with me? I honestly believe that adding this one feature could have a profoundly positive impact on everything from commerce to human rights.--[[User:Calan|Calan]] 22:41, 11 Jan 2006 (PST)
Similar As I wrote to a previous Feature request you personally: How do you plan to solve the problem, that some (LDAP as extensionmost?)users may also check their email with other email clients or via web-access (e.g. hotmail, but more to the point.yahoo)? --[[User:Eisman|Eisman]] 23:57, 26 Jan 2006 (PST)
Would like to have some sort of shared address book support. At a minimum, this would:== Microsoft Exchange ==* query against an external source when looking up email addresses (possibly with an extension to allow multiple types) * Allow for I propose that the launching next version of a tool Thunderbird should be able to talk to manage this external address book (eMircosoft Exchange using its native protocol, perhaps using the GPL Ximian-Connector from Novell.g. URL or simply an external app)Yes I know that Exchange supports IMAP and POP3, but a lot of companies do not enable them for security reasons
== Editing Message Filters I would love to see this implemented. Our University is migrating to Exchange and I'm currently having to downgrade everyone from Thunderbird to Outlook Express. Not pleasant I can tell you. - Move To: Folder PopUp too short ==- Trippynet, Nov 07 2006.
Using Why don't you try MS Outlook 2003? This integrates real well with Exchange 2003 and supports a lot of good features. I would like to see Thunderbird 1.5b on Mac OS 10Exchange as I have a client who is using it.4.3 For now, when I edit a message filter, and choose (from the lower pane) Move To, the right pop-will set him up displays with POP3 to my message folders as expected, but Exchange Server so he can keep using it. I would never use Outlook Express unless you want your users exposed to spam and all the list other bad stuff that is so narrow that the folder names are truncated so much as out there.The term "downgrade to be mostly unreadable. Resizing the dialog window makes no difference..." is an understatement!Charles
I'm a newbie In my company, they are moving all servers to both Thunderbird AND this wikiExchange (non-IMAP/POP), so I hope will no longer be able to use TB, and this is not anything I've put this in the right placewill have control over. A plugin for Exchange connectivity would indeed be of great value to me.Yannack
== Some thingsMy school doesn't have POP or IMAP enabled (for security reasons, which like Yannack said) so a plugin for exchange support would be great...greatly appreciated and Thunderbird would be copacetic to the business world, instead of using Outlook. ==-- niftymatt
1. The compression feature is a great method to reduce storage size, but it's very unpractically. I think in the next release there should be a autocompress feature after deleting a various number of messages, not about the complete size of the profile.== RSS offline support ==
2. The possibility to export complete folders with right-click (or all message older than ..) in an archive, that should It would be also opened as like an additional profile. Like the feature in Outlook great to export all message older than .. incorporate in an separated .pst-filefuture Thunderbird realeases offline RSS reading support.
3. The possibility to show additional header information and the complete mailsource with an rightclick == UI changes mentioned in last item of a message. Not with Ctrl+U or clicking in the menu.article ==
== Separate Window for EAka Gmail-Mail header before fetching mails ==like message grouping by conversation, and also possibly integrating the message list pane and the message display pane into a single conversation pane, wherein individual conversations can be expanded/collapsed, and also perhaps in collapsed form, a small preview of the message content is shown in the conversation line.
I would appreciate a separate window showing a list of new mails on the POP-Server (which is generated using only the mail headers) with the ability to easily remove some mails from the list which causes them Conversation lines thus do not have to be removed from the POP-server.A separate window would lead to a much more comprehensible behaviour compared to the "Fetch headers only" option which silently deletes mails from the POP-server if the header-only mails are deleted or moved to the junk folder.So many users have asked for this feature single line in the german forum.Here you height; they can view a screenshot of such a window:http://files.kornibe two or three lines --welt.de/auswahlthink Gmail message search results display.gif
some possible optionsBug 241197 [https:*delete msg from server*download msg from server*remain untouched on server*download and remain on server*move directly into junk//bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241197] is a very good place to start.
If implemented this can put Tbird head and shoulders over the rest of the email crowd :-) == Integration of a Calendar + Birthdays per folder (and per sender) hooks (like mutt) for identities ==
Integrate There's already a Calendar bug for this ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200872 Bug 200872]) but I thought I'd add it here too... the ability to add hooks like the iCalendar plugin into thunderbird, such Mutt supports so that reminders are able when the calendar is not open. Another important thing for me is I can say "all mail to have a birthday field for my contacts@bugzilla. These birthdays org should generate automatically a repeating calendar entrycome from bugzilla@mydomain. Then it would be perfect for me. Another nice-ext" and not need to remember tochange the drop-have thing is syncronisation with PDAs but yet not so important down to methe correct address.
Tony Firshman: Having moved from Demon's now unsupported Turnpike, I wish not only birthdays but other anniversary fields toomiss the per-folder identities. (In Hungary we This meant one could set _all_ default values when writing emails. I use different identities for public mailing lists, where archiving is often ridiculously open - ie quoting sigs literally. I also like to fudge the "Reply to:". Also in TP mailing list folders, the To: is pre-filled. I have namedaysto set up dummy accounts with unused root folders to be able to set default ID. I cannot though set default "To:". Messy.)
- There's already a Calendar Extension for Thunderbird. Lightning is a project to integrate the Calendar into Thunderbird fully.== Tagging, annotations, and information management ==
== Server protocoll =='''Tagging''' has already been mentioned multiple times and seems a very important feature for any information system that contains data with '''multiple associations'''. The problem of information management and retrieval for emails is actually very similar to the problem of organizing bookmarks (see http://tdot.blog-city.com/evolution_bookmarking.htm).The ability to quickly add and edit tags (projects, events, locations, groups, names) associated with an email, bookmark, etc. provides a selection mechanism that is more specific than free text search. The "traditional" Inbox, Sent, and other folders of multiple accounts can even exist besides the tagging but the folder names and account names need to be integrated as (default) tags.'''Annotations''' are as powerful as tags but rarely used so far. The key issue for both tagging and annotations is the user interface. It needs to be a '''"permanent" tool''' like the "new" find, the Firefox extension "Flat Bookmark Editing", or tools in Photoshop that provide direct access and NOT a dialog.The search should by default include all main folders such as Inbox, Sent, etc. and sort the results by time. To select emails by tags and to have the results from Inbox, Sent, etc. in one list seems to me even more interesting than some proposed features of IBM's Remail project.A method to save tag combinations in a list (may be with a name) for later searches would be equivalent to dynamic folders and may provide a solution for some of the above feature requests.
One reason I prefer AK-Mail == New message popup to Thunderbird: There is a log of the server communication. Would be great, if this is possible in a future version of Thunderbird. It helps to analyse errors...include message info ==
POP3: Verbinde zum Host-Rechner [pop.gmx.net] am SamstagIt would be nice, if whenever I get a message from somebody that when it showsthe New Message popup and says, den 24. Dezember 2005 11:46:40<br>"1 new message" that it tells me who it is fromPOP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK GMX POP3 StreamProxy ready [.and maybe the first part of the message.Sort of like outlook does.]<br>This wouldPOP3: 11:46:40 [tx] APOP [.really be ideal for me cause if I am watching a movie..]<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK mailbox has 2 messages (186120 octets)<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [tx] STAT<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK 2 186120<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [tx] LIST<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK mailbox has 2 messages (186120 octets)<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [tx] UIDL<br>POP3: 11:46:40 [rx] +OK mailbox has 2 messages (186120 octets)<br>It pops up and says youPOP3: 11:46:41 [tx] RETR 2<br>POP3: 11:46:41 [rx] +OK got 1 new message follows<br>. But I have to get up and go to the computer to figure out ifPOP3: 11:46:41 [tx] QUIT<br>it is important or not. If it had who it was from, I could tell without havingPOP3: 11:46:41 [rx] +OK bye<br>to get up.
== Automated deletion ==If you have multiple messages, ie. "2 new messages". Then just popup a window for each message.:Just adding another vote for this feature. It's immensely helpful to know whether or not I should divert my new attention to that incoming message or whether it's just more spam. For me, the alert is useless without this because there's always new mail lately, it's just a matter of who it's from.
One reason I prefer AK-Mail to Thunderbird: It supports automated deletion of messages from the trash folder of an individual account:== Return receipt mail tracking ==
There is If I send a per-account setting "Delete messages return receipt mail, I don't want to check manually later if I got from trash folder, after they have resided XX days in all the trash folder"addressed persons return receipts. This way I also don't want to see the days return receipts in any of my folders.I would like to have a visible distinction (eg. by colors) of being the unsuccessfully sent mails in trash are relevantthe sent folder, which have not received the date of the message! return receipt yet.It is would be nice also if I can set a nice feature to keep the trash fullness lowtimeout value for an important mail, but provide in which if a return receipt is not received then the chance of restoring messages within some day-range, if I recognize having deleted them by accidentemail is automatically resent.
== Robust automated fetching and sending Insert signature here ==
One reason I prefer AK-Mail to In conversations between two Thunderbird is users with the possibility to configure independent intervalls for automated fetching and sending setting "Forward messages : inline" set, the signatures will just heap up in a useless mess at the bottom of the e-- per accountmails since the signatures are always inserted at the bottom of the mail.
When fetching or sending Furthermore, when replying customers' e-mails the unsent signatures are also inserted below their messages fails, there which is no annoying message-box you have kind of awkward. A better solution IMHO would be the Outlook Express way where a toolbar button inserts the signature where the user wants it to click away each timebe. [[User:NisseSthlm|NisseSthlm]] 10:38, but 25 Jan 2006 (PST):I just realized that there is only a log entry an option in the Thunderbird settings where you can choose to insert the account log. This is nice, because I have here often connection failures with my DSL. The e-mail client should be able to fetch and send whenever possible and don't annoy mesignature above or below the quote, if it's not possibleOutlook Express style. If I want to[[User:NisseSthlm|NisseSthlm]] 07:35, I'll have a look at the log...17 April 2006 (PDT)
Good point. You can use Quicktext - Thunderbird Extension in the meantime:https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&category= Linking of attachments to the file system instead of copying Newest&numpg=10&id=640
One reason I prefer AK-Mail to Thunderbird: It is possible there to link attachments instead of copying them into the message. This way it is possible to create template messages with linked files. When I finally send the message, the current version of the file is taken from the file system.== Easy language switch UI ==
== Custom Tabbar Location ==For those of us using more than one language on a daily basis, the inline spell check tool becomes useless half the time. If I want to write a message in English with spell check activated, I first have to open the '''Options...''' dialog and choose the English dictionary. When I'm done writing that e-mail, I have to open the '''Options...''' dialog again and change back to Swedish dictionary. With that many steps (lazy bastard), my dictionary is set to Swedish and will stay set to Swedish, making it useless when writing English e-mails.
Many people might I'd like the upcoming tabbar for tabbed messages on top of dropdown menu availiable in the pane, '''Options...''' dialog but many eudora users will prefer them under placed on the message pane. It would be great if this customization option could be part of TB 2.0 right from the start and the position wasn't hardwiredtoolbar.
== reply This option should furthermore change the one word ("wrote") written by Thunderbird when replying a message with template ==the "Forward messages: inline". In Swedish the "XXX XXX wrote:" line would be "XXX XXX skrev:". [[User:NisseSthlm|NisseSthlm]] 11:05, 25 Jan 2006 (PST)
Although filed in Bugzilla as [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21210 bug 21210] I would like to have it in TB 2.0, integrated in the concept of discussions/threads.----
I am also struggling with this when having multi-lingual mail output. My approach to solve this would be slightly different: An additional language field in the address book would be great, which would then be used as default setting for spelling and, as mentioned above, generated comments.
== Double Key Encryption by Default Full text indexing of messages ==I propose that future releases of Thunderbird incorporate default encryption and signing of all email through a peer-to-peer, double-key encryption system, similar to PGP.
I'm proposing Add the option to full text index incoming messages. Thunderbird maintains its own fulltext index. So instead of going through all physical messages on a very simple system, essentially:search the index is scanned. This will speed up searches dramatically.
#) Thunderbird will include a double-key encryption system#) Thunderbird-originated emails will include a line "public key available" #) Thunderbird clients will automatically exchange keys when they spot #2#) Future messages between the two will automatically be encrypted== S/MIME X.509 handling ==
The result would be I suggest makeing it possible that all Thunderbird users would communicate securely between each otherencrypted mails stored unencrypted after decoding it. Hopefully, a critical mass would Maybe the mails should be attained, and all email clients would have stored in a the same compatible encryption schemenew folder.
For this The main problem is, that for security reasons, the privat certificate isn't stored on the notebook. In fact it's only stored on a smart-card (a-trust) that is used with an external card reader with a keypad on it to worktype in the code. If now, encryption must for some reasons, this card is broken or the validity of the certificate will be void, there's '''no way'default'' rather than an optional plug-in or extra effort if we are finally going to solve read all the vulnerability of totally open emailpreviously decrypted mails again.
The system must be so simple as to be essentially transparent. What So I'm suggesting is VERY simple: '' After the first emailthink, the Thunderbird clients exchange public keys. All email after that storing mails unencrypted is encrypted with no effort by the user.'' a very important feature
I feel very strongly that routine encryption of email is long overdue. The first time I used == email in the late 80's, I was uncomfortable with the total lack address and identities per SMTP server instead of privacy. I can't believe this hasn't been solved, yet! POP/IMAP ==
Can anyone else jump on this bandwagon with me? I honestly believe use one single IMAP server that adding automatically fetches mails from my private and work POP3/IMAP accounts. Unfortunately, sender addresses can only be set per POP3/IMAP account (via identities). That doesn't work well because I can only use one SMTP server for all my email addresses. To solve this one , I have created multiple "fake" POP3 accounts and associated them with real SMTP servers. Why don't you move the "identities" feature could have a profoundly positive impact on everything from commerce the fetching server (POP3/IMAP) to the sending server (SMTP)? It's more intuitive because you send mail via SMTP not via POP3. Also, Thunderbird does not automatically choose the right email address when replying to human rightsmail (which is stored on my IMAP server).--[[User:Calan|Calan]] 22:41It's always the default account's address, so if I forget to set it to the correct sender address my mail does not get through mailing lists, 11 Jan 2006 for example. It should also be possible to choose the default sender address independently of the default POP3/IMAP server (PSTi.e.: put all that stuff in the SMTP server settings). Thanks!
As I wrote to you personally: How do you plan to solve the problem, that some (most?) users may also check their email with other email clients or via web-access == IMAP address book (e.g. hotmailand for Sunbird calendar, yahoo)? --[[User:Eisman|Eisman]] 23:57todo, 26 Jan 2006 (PSTetc.)==
== Microsoft Exchange ==It would be nice to have other address book backends. With LDAP I cannot edit/create contacts (and I propose currently cannot easily get a list of all contacts). An IMAP address book based on vCards would be a great feature, but it must be standardized because other mailers should implement that the next version of Thunderbird , too. This should be able to talk to Mircosoft Exchange using its native protocolalso allow for PIM features (calendar, perhaps using the GPL Ximian-Connector from Novelletc.Yes I know ), so you can have everything stored on one single account (there aren't that many Exchange supports servers for personal use, so IMAP and POP3, but a lot of companies do not enable them for security reasonsis the best compromise).
I would love to see this implemented. Our University is migrating to Exchange and I'm currently having to downgrade everyone from Thunderbird to Outlook Express. Not pleasant I can tell you. -- Trippynet, Nov 07 2006.
Why don't you try MS Outlook 2003? This integrates real well with Exchange 2003 and supports a lot of good features. I would like to see Thunderbird on Exchange as I have a client who is using it. For now, I will set him up with POP3 to my Exchange Server so he can keep using it. I would never use Outlook Express unless you want your users exposed to spam and all the other bad stuff that is out there.
The term "downgrade to...." is an understatement!
Charles
In my company, they are moving all servers == Integrate Quick File ==Quick File is an existing extension to Exchange (non-IMAPenable keyboard based filing and navigation. See [http:/POP), so I will no longer be able to use TB, and this is not anything I will have control over/quickfile.mozdev. A plugin for Exchange connectivity would indeed be of great value to meorg/ Quick File on mozdev].Yannack
My school doesn't have POP or IMAP enabled (for security reasons, like Yannack said) so There is a plugin [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325930 bugzilla bug] for exchange support would be greatly appreciated and Thunderbird would be copacetic to the business world, instead discussion of using Outlookthis. -- niftymatt
== RSS offline support Views as main UI ==The combination of Views and vFolders is one of TBs strengths. With tags, it's get even better. Use it.
It would Rather than the 3-pane window, TB should have a default window based on different views of your mail. The 3-pane window shows the accounts and folders you have, the default window should show valuable information your mail and messages. For instance it could tell you that there is a total of 43 new messages, 5 of them is from ''People you know'', 22 is from ''A Mailing List'', 8 is from ''Another Mailing List'', 3 is from ''A Feed'' and 5 is from ''A Newsgroup''. Each view from the default window could then be great to incorporate opened in future Thunderbird realeases offline RSS reading supporta new tab.
== UI changes mentioned Exactly what should show on the default page should be configurable. It doesn't necessarily have to be new mails, it could be mails marked ToDo (as in last item of article ==''You have 5 mails marked as ToDo''), or anything else the user may create a custom view for.
Aka Gmail-like message grouping by conversation, and also possibly integrating the message list pane In addition to a new default window there should be a Favorite Views toolbar and the message display pane into a single conversation dropdown menu of all views (much like bookmarks in Firefox). The 3-pane, wherein individual conversations can window should still be expanded/collapsedan option as it has it's uses, and also perhaps in collapsed formmany users may prefer it. The new default is better for users accustomed to gmail and other Tag/Search-based services, a small preview of the message content 3-pane window is for people who is shown in accustomed to folders. == Ability to customize the conversation line.Background Color ==
Conversation lines thus do not have A lot of people find tiring for the eyes to be read on a single line in height; they white background. I don't use Thunderbird just because of this problem! (with Foxmail and others I can be two or three lines -- think Gmail message search results displayuse the light gray background I put on windows settings).
Bug 241197 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241197] is a very good place to start.Good work,
If implemented this can put Tbird head and shoulders over the rest of the email crowd :-)Arzigogolo
== per folder (and per sender) hooks (like mutt) for identities ==
There's already a bug for this ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200872 Bug 200872]) but I thought I'd add it here too... the ability to add hooks like Mutt supports so that I can say "all mail to @bugzilla.org should come from bugzilla@mydomain.ext" and not need to remember to change the drop-down to the correct address.
Tony Firshman: Having moved from Demon's now unsupported Turnpike, I miss the per-folder identities. This meant one could set _all_ default values when writing emails. I use different identities for public mailing lists, where archiving is often ridiculously open - ie quoting sigs literally. I also like to fudge the "Reply to:". Also == Considering Sproutit Features in TP mailing list folders, the To: is pre-filled. I have to set up dummy accounts with unused root folders to be able to set default ID. I cannot though set default "To:". Messy.Development process ==
== Tagging, annotationsPlease think about [http://www.sproutit.com/ Sproutit] from [http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/63034.html Sprout Systems, Inc.] and ask yourself how to implement the best and information management ==most useful features from their program to Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0!
'''Tagging''' has already been mentioned multiple times and seems Look at a very important feature for any information system that contains data with '''multiple associations'''. The problem of information management and retrieval for emails is actually very similar to the problem of organizing bookmarks (see review from Brian Benziger [http://tdotwww.blog-citysolutionwatch.com/evolution_bookmarking.htm).The ability to quickly add and edit tags (projects, events, locations, groups, names) associated with an 319/sproutit-mailroom-for-small-business-email, bookmark, etc. provides a selection mechanism that is more specific than free text search. The "traditional" Inbox, Sent, and other folders of multiple accounts can even exist besides the tagging but the folder names and account names need to be integrated as (default) tags.'''Annotations''' are as powerful as tags but rarely used so far. The key issue for both tagging and annotations is the user interface. It needs to be a '''"permanent" tool''' like the "new" find, the Firefox extension "Flat Bookmark Editing", or tools in Photoshop that provide direct access and NOT a dialog.The search should by default include all main folders such as Inbox, Sent, etc. and sort the results by time. To select emails by tags and to have the results from Inbox, Sent, etc. in one list seems to me even more interesting than some proposed features of IBM's Remail project.A method to save tag combinations in a list (may be with a name) for later searches would be equivalent to dynamic folders and may provide a solution for some of the above feature requests-management/ here].
== New message popup to include message info ==Thanks for considering this.
It would be nice--[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]] 05:25, if whenever I get a message from somebody that when it showsthe New Message popup and says, "1 new message" that it tells me who it is fromand maybe the first part of the message. Sort of like outlook does. This wouldreally be ideal for me cause if I am watching a movie.. It pops up and says yougot 1 new message. But I have to get up and go to the computer to figure out ifit is important or not. If it had who it was from, I could tell without havingto get up.14 Feb 2006 (PST)
If you have multiple messages, ie. "2 new messages". Then just popup a window for each message.:Just adding another vote for this feature. It's immensely helpful == Import/Export vcard format to know whether or not I should divert my new attention to that incoming message or whether it's just more spam. For me, the alert is useless without this because there's always new mail lately, it's just a matter of who it's /from.Thunderbird Addressbook ==
== Return receipt mail tracking ==Applications like Palm Desktop or Lotus Notes usually import and export contacts using vcard (VCF) standard format (rev 2.1 or 3.0).
If I send a return receipt mail, I don't want It would be nice to check manually later if I got from all the addressed persons return receipts. I also don't want get this feature added to see the return receipts in any of my folders.I would like to have a visible distinction (eg. by colors) import/export features of the unsuccessfully sent mails in the sent folder, which have not received the return receipt yetThunderbird address book.It would Files accepted or generated should be nice also if I can set a timeout value for an important mail, in which if a return receipt is not received then the email is automatically resentsuitable for single and multiple contacts.
== Insert signature here ==Importing contacts from such applications right now is cumbersome. In windows you can import them from Outlook Express and then import the OE address book from Thunderbird. :-(
In conversations between two Thunderbird users with the setting "Forward messages: inline" set, the signatures will just heap up in a useless mess at the bottom of the e-mails since the signatures are always inserted at the bottom of the mail. Pin
Furthermore, when replying customers' e-mails the signatures are also inserted below their messages which is kind of awkward. A better solution IMHO would be the Outlook Express way where a toolbar button inserts the signature where the user wants it to be. [[User:NisseSthlm|NisseSthlm]] 10:38, 25 Jan 2006 == Simple Mail Access Protocol (PST):I just realized that there is an option in the Thunderbird settings where you can choose to insert the signature above or below the quote, Outlook Express style. [[User:NisseSthlm|NisseSthlm]] 07:35, 17 April 2006 (PDTSMAP)==
Good point. You can use Quicktext - Thunderbird Extension Support SMAP in the meantime:https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfoaddition to IMAP.php?application=thunderbird&category=Newest&numpg=10&id=640
== Easy language switch UI ==See also*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Access_Protocol*http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/smap1.html--[[User:Mozifix|Mozifix]] 02:11, 17 Feb 2006 (PST)
For those of us using more than one language on a daily basis, the inline spell check tool becomes useless half the time. If I want to write a message in English with spell check activated, I first have to open the '''Options...''' dialog and choose the English dictionary. When I'm done writing that e-mail, I have to open the '''Options...''' dialog again and change back to Swedish dictionary. With that many steps (lazy bastard), my dictionary is set to Swedish and will stay set to Swedish, making it useless when writing English e-mails.
I'd like the dropdown menu availiable in the '''Options...''' dialog but placed on the message toolbar.== UI Liftup and stuff ==
1. View pull down menu. (all - unread - important...)This option menu should furthermore change be replaced with buttons for each entry. In addition an ability to add custom labels should be possible. Buttons should be made on "on" - "off" paradigm, which would enable the one word (possibility to "wrotecombine") written by Thunderbird when replying a message with the views like for example "Forward messages: inlineall read". In Swedish the that have "XXX XXX wrote:attachments" line would be and are labeled as "XXX XXX skrev:to do". [[User:NisseSthlm|NisseSthlm]] 11:05Each category would refine the previous view. Left mouse button click would ad/remove this category from selection, 25 Jan 2006 while middle mouse button click would clear all except selected. (PSTI expect right mouse button click to open customize)
----2. Same changes would be appropriate for the search window + highlighting keywords.
3. Proposed windows layouts are good, (the third all vertical panels is by my opinion unfuctional) but I am also struggling with this when having multi-lingual miss the functionality of the client. For example one very important column in the message view is the entry "mailbox" that the mail outputbelongs to. My approach This would allow filters to solve this would be slightly different: An additional language field applied for all mail in all mailboxes if user chooses so. This could be again selected as in 1 and 2 with some pull down menu tith checkboxes with all the mailboxes. You simply click the address book would mailbox that you want to be greata part of the "all together global" view. This does not mean, which would then be used as default setting that mail is gathered in one mailbox, but merely that results are global for spelling all mailboxes. When grouping mail all from all mailboxes are structured, if you do not want that, you simply do not mark mailboxes and, all are shown seperated as mentioned above, generated commentsnow.The email box column should be first and very clear - icons?
== Full text indexing 4. Force mail, to thread! Sometimes thread gets busted for no obvious reason and the mail has to be "changed" with an extension or by hand. There should be a feature, to allow forcing mail to be part of messages ==some thread. That would give users even more power of structuring.<br> See [[#Step_4:_Threading.2FGrouping_of_Messages|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]
Add the option 5. Local Folders - mailboxes panel should combine "unsent messages" and "drafts" into "Unsent & Drafts" with ability to send unsent at specific time and date and to warn users for long time not accesed drafts. In case that is a problem, then there should be a possibility to full text index incoming not show some mailboxes or even removing them (e.g. - I never have unsent messages). Thunderbird maintains its own fulltext index. So instead The info bar should have some info on the size and number of going through all physical messages on a search entries in the index is scannedmailbox or it's folders.<br> See [[#Step_2:_Combined_.22Unsent_Messages.22.2C_.22Drafts.22_and_. This will speed up searches dramatically22Sent.22_Folders|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]
== S/MIME X6. Tabs for different profiles - when more than one person sits behind the computer turning on and off the mailboxes is just waste of time.509 handling ==
==General Plug-In able syncronization system==This has been said several times on one way shape or form so far, but a feature that would put thunderbird over the top for many people is the ability to syncronize data with other devices like a laptop, a phone, a pda, whatever. I suggest makeing think a generic sync system can be built into thunderbird that would allow other devlopers to add device specific communication modules. say for example, my motorola phone. if thunderbird had such a sync system, i could build a motorola plugin that would query the phone for the data it has, pass it possible to the sync routines, and recieve back the changes that encrypted mails stored unencrypted after decoding itneed made to the phone. the sync system would take care of the stuff like who overwrites what, conflict detection, confilict resolution, etc. Maybe all my plugin has to do is know how to connect to the device, query the mails should be stored in a new folderdata, and write the changes to it. --willie
The main problem is, I totally agree to that for security reasons, the privat certificate isnand i still don't stored on the notebook. In fact itunderstand why this hasn's only stored on a smart-card (a-trust) that is used with an external card reader with a keypad on it to type in the codet been implemented yet. If now, for some reasons, I think this card is broken or the validity of the certificate will be void, theresimply something many people need and I don's '''no way''' to read all the previously decrypted mails againt know any satisfying solutions for this problem.
So I think, that storing mails unencrypted is a very important feature== New Approach to 3 (or more) Pane UI creation ==
== email address Hardcoded 3 Pane views will never please everyone (unless you hardcode all combinations of layout plus contents). I think there may be a developer toolkit that has this idea, but I don't know the name and identities per SMTP server will describe instead of POP. The idea is to start with an empty sandbox. Two splitters, one horizontal and one vertical in a toolbar can be drag/IMAP ==dropped onto the sandbox to divide it and subdivide it.
If I use one single IMAP server that automatically fetches mails from my private and work POP3/IMAP accounts. Unfortunatelywanted a 3 pane view with the message list end to end on top horizontally, sender addresses can only be set per POP3/IMAP account (via identities). That doesn't work well because I can only use one SMTP server for all my email addresses. To solve this, would drag first a horizontal splitter to so divide the box; then I have created multiple "fake" POP3 accounts would drag the MessageList widget into that top pane and associated them with real SMTP serversinstantiate it. Why don't you move I then want the folder tree view on the "identities" feature from bottom left; drag a vertical splitter into the fetching server (POP3/IMAP) to bottom half of the sending server (SMTP)? It's more intuitive because you send mail via SMTP not via POP3. Alsobox, Thunderbird does not automatically choose the right email address when replying to mail (which is stored on my IMAP server)and have two new panes. It I's always d drag the default account's address, so if I forget to set it to FolderTree widget into the correct sender address my mail does not get through mailing listsleft, for example. It should also be possible to choose and then drag the default sender address independently of MessagePane into the default POP3/IMAP server (i.e.: put all that stuff in the SMTP server settings)right pane. Thanks!
== IMAP address book Result is a "T" view (one I've never seen but I believe is most space conserving, and for Sunbird calendar, todo, etctakes into account reading ergonomics). Splitters slide of course.) ==
It would Of course, this can be nice to have other address book backends. With LDAP I cannot edit/create contacts (and I currently cannot easily get expanded quite a list of all contacts)bit. An IMAP address book based on vCards would be The 'sidebar' is just another split pane with a great feature, but particular widget app dropped in it; it must doesn't need to be standardized because other mailers should implement that, too. This should also allow for PIM features (calendar, etc.), so you can have everything stored on one single account (there arennailed to the 'side't that many Exchange servers for personal use, so IMAP is but rather where the best compromise)user wants it.
Another example: an "H". Drag a vertical, another vertical, and have 3 vertical panes. Then drag a horizontal into the middle pane. Put any widget anywhere you want.
[[User:Alta88|Alta88]] 18:09, 27 Feb 2006 (PST)
== Integrate Quick File Compatibility of the addressbooks of Outlook 2003 & TB 2.0 ==Quick File is an existing extension to enable keyboard based filing and navigation. See [http://quickfile.mozdev.org/ Quick File on mozdev].
There is should be a [https://bugzillafull compatibility of the addressbook with Microsoft Outlook 2003 to support the spreading of TB and to make it really timesaving!(Export possibility as *.xsl (Excel), Microsoft Access file, *.mozillabcm (Outlook 2003 Business Contact Manager (~CRM)), *.org/show_bugpst (personal folder) and *.cgi?id=325930 bugzilla bugwab (Outlook Express addressbook)) --[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]] for discussion of this.14:05, 2 Mar 2006 (PST)
== Auto Forward From Drop In Folder Discussions : all or Report as Spam Button watched unread ==
Many of us have server spam filters. By simply forwarding a Spam back to a particular address on the serverHello, it is reported to that system as spam or ham for future reference.
It looks like Thunderbird is so very close to having thisI often use the Display menu, Discussions option, but it requires a filter action to do the auto forwardingswitch between "All" and "Watched unread".
I It would like to be able so nice to set have a filter on button and/or a folder, where any message I move into keyboard shortcut to do that folder is forwarded back to my spam reporting addressinstantly .. Alternatively, have a single button for forwarding any particular email back to the server's spam address.
This would be useful for many anti== UI Redesign: View Tabs -spam systems. One could use this to both whitelist and blacklist via SpamAssassin. Report spam to Dspam. End the arduous task of selecting forward and then beginning to type in the spam reporting address and then clicking on send.. one drop or one click would be awesomeView By Contacts, View By Attachments, Etc.==
== Views as I'd like to see tabs at the main UI ==The combination of Views and vFolders is one of TBs strengthsapplication level. With tags These tabs would allow you to find messages by attachments, contacts, date, it's get even betteretc. Use itIndividual mail folders or accounts could be pulled to the tab level as well.
Rather than the 3-pane window, TB should have It's a default window based on different views of your mailfeature I've first seen done well in [http://www. The 3-pane window shows the accounts and folders you have, the default window should show valuable information your mail and messagescaelo. For instance com/products/about.php Nelson Email Organizer] but it could tell you that there is a total of 43 new messages, 5 of them is from ''People you know'', 22 is from ''only works with Outlook. A Mailing List'', 8 is from ''Another Mailing List'', 3 is from ''A Feed'' and 5 is from ''A Newsgroup''[http://www.caelo.com/images/nelsonscreenshotano_72. Each view from the default window could then jpg screen shot can be opened in a new tab.found here]
Exactly what should show on I think this product has some excellent ideas that would take Thunderbird beyond anything Outlook does right now. I know some of the default page should features could be configurable. It doesndifficult to implement, but I't necessarily have d like to at least see the Tab concept be new mails, it could be mails marked ToDo (as in ''You have 5 mails marked as ToDo''), or anything else taken to the main UI level and not just the user may create a custom view formessage tabs that are being disucssed now.
In addition to a new default window there should be a Favorite Views toolbar and a dropdown menu of all views (much like bookmarks == Birthay Field in Firefox). The 3-pane window should still be an option as it has it's uses, and many users may prefer it. The new default is better address book for users accustomed to gmail and other Tag/Search-based services, the 3-pane window is for people who is accustomed to folders.yearly events in Calendar Plugin ==
== Ability The most important reason for me to customize the Background Color ==use a addressbook in relation to a calendar is to keep track of birthdays and anniversaries of friends, family, and colleagues.
A lot Thunderbird has an address book, but it doesn't have fields for date of people find tiring birth or anniversaries.The nice Mozilla calendar Plugin for the eyes Thunderbird doesn't have an address book, forcing you to read on a white background. I donmanually enter every contact't use Thunderbird just because of this problem! (with Foxmail and others I can use the light gray background I put on windows settings)s birthday/anniversary.
Good workSad but true,but this simple features is a reason for me (and a lot of other people), still to use a old fashioned outlook instead a modern open source product like Thunderbird+calendarplugin!Imho it would be not that big problem to implement a birthday field which can then easily integrated in the calendar plugin as yearly event!
Arzigogolo==Don't wrap plain text attachments==
Thunderbird needs an option to NOT autowrap plain text emails.
The best option for this might be to make a menu option for turning on text wrapping. If it is turned off, then one could paste in a patch and it would not wrap the lines. If there was a paragraph or two at the top, then another menu option "rewrap text" while selecting the part you want to wrap would still work. Note, this is a general problem for Linux kernel devopers and free software developers in general. For example see the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/21/360 [[User:Jeff Carr|Jeff Carr]] 12:51, 6 April 2006 (PDT)
== Considering Sproutit Features in Development process Phishing/Spoofing Reporting Tool ==
Please think about [http://wwwA feature that I don't see in any mail clients at the moment is a straight-forward way to report phishing attempts to the appropriate people.sproutit Currently, I'm innundated with over 50 phishing attempts per day across a several accounts, and if there was a button (or a menu option) that I could choose to "report phishing" that could, based on the supposed return address, select from a table (that would exist in an external file, updated from someplace on the internet) the correct forwarding address and wrap the message appropriately, then forward it to the right address (be that "spoof@ebay.com/ Sproutit] from [http://www.demo" or "abuse@chase.com/demonstrators/demo2006/63034.html Sprout Systems", Inc.] and ask yourself how to implement name just two), it would cut down on the best amount of effort that must be put in to reporting these things, and most useful features from their program that in turn might encourage more people to Mozilla Thunderbird 2report these scams as early as possible and reduce the chance that some people will fall for them.0!
Look at I agree. Firefox 2 is supposed to include a review from Brian Benziger [http://www.solutionwatchphishing filter, so I was hoping that something like that might also leak into Thunderbird 2.com/319/sproutitAfter all, e-mailroom-for-small-business-email-management/ here]mail is where a large amount of the phishing initiates.
Thanks == Export is crucial for considering this.businesses ==
--[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]] 05:25, 14 Feb 2006 Exporting of mail and preferences (PSTincluding rules)are crucial. We know Mozilla would prefer to not have people migrate away from tbird, but real world requires the ability to do so easily. I have found no easy way to do this in Linux.
== Import/Export vcard format to/from Thunderbird Addressbook Add tags this way ==
Applications like Palm Desktop or Lotus Notes usually import There is already an extension that allows you to add tags to Thunderbird. It's called HeaderTools and export contacts using vcard in it's latest version (VCF0.56) standard format (rev 2it's easy to add tags to mails. Check this [http://forums.mozillazine.1 or 3org/viewtopic.0)php?p=2255007#2255007 thread] for more info.
It would be nice to get With a few UI-improvements this feature added extension does everything that is planned for tags when it comes to TB 2.0. Should save the import/export features developers a lot of the Thunderbird address book. Files accepted or generated should be for suitable for single and multiple contactswork.
Importing contacts from such applications right now is cumbersome. In windows you can import them from Outlook Express and then import the OE address book from Thunderbird. :-(== 2 new search options ==
PinI'd like to see 2 new search options in Thunderbird 2.0:Subject or To or CCSubject or Sender or To or CC
== Simple Mail Access Protocol (SMAP) ==Also the original bug 279855 has been fixed.
Support SMAP in addition to IMAPThe patch for Thunderbird 1.5(.0.2) works for me for 3 month without any problems.
See also*httpA patch is available at://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Access_Protocol*httphttps://wwwbugzilla.courier-mtamozilla.org/cone/smap1show_bug.html--[[User:Mozifix|Mozifix]] 02:11, 17 Feb 2006 (PST)cgi?id=279855#c8
== Address book improvements ==
== UI Liftup and stuff ==It will be fine to implement tree structure for address book or implement grouping addresses by firm for example.I'm using a few accounts with TD - one for private mailing, another for bussines etc. It will be very usefull to associate default mail account for sending message with vcard. Sorry for my english.
1. View pull down menu. (all - unread - important...)This menu should be replaced with buttons == Allow Different Location for each entry. In addition an ability to add custom labels should be possible. Buttons should be made on "on" - "off" paradigm, which would enable the possibility to "combine" views like for example "all read" that have "attachments" and are labeled as "to do". Each category would refine the previous view. Left mouse button click would adAddress Book /remove this category from selection, while middle mouse button click would clear all except selected. (I expect right mouse button click to open customize)Email ==
2One feature that I would find helpful is the ability to create an address book at another location -- for example, on a network shared drive. Same changes On my home network, I store most of my files on a common network fileserver that is backed up on a regular basis. By allowing me to store my address book on this drive would be appropriate for make it available to all of the search window + highlighting keywordscomputers on my network as well as ensure that it is backed up with all of my other personal data.
3. Proposed windows layouts are good, (the third all vertical panels is The feature could be implemented either by my opinion unfuctional) but I miss the functionality of the client. For example one very important column in the message view is allowing the entry "mailbox" that the mail belongs to. This would allow filters folder Thunderbird uses to be applied for all mail changed in all mailboxes if user chooses so. This could be again selected as in 1 and 2 with some pull down menu tith checkboxes with all the mailboxes. You simply click the mailbox that you want options or using standard File Open/Save dialogs to be a part of the "all together global" view. This does not mean, that mail is gathered in one mailbox, but merely that results are global for all mailboxes. When grouping mail all from all mailboxes are structured, if you do not want that, you simply do not mark mailboxes and all are shown seperated as nowmanage address books. The email box column should be first and very clear - icons?
4. Force mail, to thread! Sometimes thread gets busted for no obvious reason == Catalog and the mail has to be "changed" with an extension or by hand. There should be a feature, to allow forcing mail to be part of some thread. That would give users even more power of structuring.<br> See [[#Step_4:_Threading.2FGrouping_of_Messages|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]list management ==
5If a group of users like to make an arrangement for a social event, they need to collect and merge all answers and changes for this event from each user in separated list. Local Folders - mailboxes panel should combine "unsent messages" For example:If a user has some friends and "drafts" into "Unsent & Drafts" with ability need to know what the others can bring along for the next party. Then he send unsent at specific time an email to his friends and date and to warn users asks for long time not accesed draftsideas. In case that is All friends normally send a problem, then there should be a possibility message back to not show some mailboxes or even removing them all others (Reply All) and checks the incoming message of the others for collisions, e.g. - I never have unsent messages)to many drinks and no food. The info bar should have some info on An easy list filter can collect all emails for the size specified list (special ID) and number of all entries in should merge the mailbox or it's folders.<br> See [[#Step_2:_Combined_.22Unsent_Messages.22.2C_.22Drafts.22_and_.22Sent.22_Folders|Major Usability Redesign special list entry of Folders & Threads each user-email (in 4 Stepsa separated data structure)]]. Furthermore a pure list GUI would help to keep track of it.
6. Tabs for different profiles - when more than one person sits behind == Take into account the computer turning on and off studies & experiences of the mailboxes is just waste of time.IBM Remail Project! ==
==General Plug-In able syncronization system==This has been said several times on one way shape or form so far, but a feature that would put thunderbird over the top for many people is the ability to syncronize data with other devices like a laptop, a phone, a pda, whatever. I think a generic sync system can it would be built VERY important and useful to take into thunderbird that would allow other devlopers to add device specific communication modules. say for example, my motorola phone. if thunderbird had such a sync system, i could build a motorola plugin that would query the phone for the data it has, pass it to account the sync routines, and recieve back deliberations the changes that need Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research made to the phonein / at / with [url=http://www.research. the sync system would take care of the stuff like who overwrites what, conflict detection, confilict resolution, etcibm. all my plugin has to do is know how to connect to the device, query the data, and write the changes to itcom/remail/index. --williehtml]Remail[/url]!
I totally agree to that and i still don't understand why Please also notify me about your progress / idea concerning this hasn't been implemented yet. I think this is simply something many people need and I don't know any satisfying solutions for this problem.appeal of mine!
== "I don't know" category for spam filtering ==Thanks in advance!
This is one of the most useful features of SpamBayes, and I haven't seen it implemented in any other Bayesian spam filter. The idea is that instead of setting one threshold between "spam" and "not spam," you can set two thresholds - one for "anything below this is certainly not spam-[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]] 04:53," and one for "anything above this is certainly spam." Anything between the two thresholds falls into the "I don't know" category.4 July 2006 (PDT)
Note that this feature does not require any change to the basic Bayesian algorithm that assigns the scores; it simply provides more flexible handling of the messages once the scores are assigned.== application/mbox MIME support ==
With this I'd like to encourage the adoption of [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in place, SpamBayes currently achieves nearly 100% accuracy for me - in the sense that no spam is ever filed as not spamnotes/rfc4155.txt RFC4155], and vicewhich defines an application/mbox media-versatype for email systems. Essentially it defines a MIME type for *. A very small percentage of my email goes mbox files, which gives you a hook into the "I don't know" categorymailfolders on a filesystem, where it is easy similar to review. Also training only the messages way that fall Web browser have hooks into this category is a pretty easy and effective training strategy*.html files.
With Some of the ways that this one feature, I believe I could stop using SpamBayes, and take advantage of the tighter integration of the be used in Thunderbird spam filtering.:
== New Approach to 3 Read/Search mail messages in a folder that has not been imported into the client (or moreEG, download a mailing list archive in Firefox and have Thunderbird display the folder as if it were part of the local mailstore) Pane UI creation ==
Hardcoded 3 Pane views will never please everyone (unless you hardcode all combinations of layout plus contents). I think there may be Archive an existing folder to a disk-based folder, such as when a developer toolkit that project has this ideabeen completed, but I don't know the name and will describe instead. The idea with awareness that it is to start with an empty sandbox. Two splitters, one horizontal and one vertical in fact a toolbar can be drag/dropped onto the sandbox to divide it and subdivide it.mailstore object
If I wanted Import a 3 pane view with the message list end to end on top horizontallyfolder, I would drag first such as a horizontal splitter to so divide the box; then I would drag the MessageList widget into that top pane and instantiate it. I then want the folder tree view on the bottom left; drag historical archive or a vertical splitter into the bottom half of the box, and have two new panes. I'd drag the FolderTree widget into the leftmailing list archive, and then drag the MessagePane into the right paneetc.
Result is a "T" view (one I've never seen but I believe is most space conserving, and takes into account reading ergonomics). Splitters slide of course.Send/receive folders as email attachments
Of course, this can be expanded quite a bit. The 'sidebar' Most of that is just another split pane possible today with a particular widget app dropped in it; extraneous tools, but it doesn't need to would be nailed to the 'side', but rather where nice if Thunderbird had direct support for this kind of feature set without requiring the user wants itto import a folder for direct manipulation.
Another example: an "H". Drag a verticalBetter support for raw message/rfc822 filesystem objects would be cool too, another vertical, and have 3 vertical panes. Then drag a horizontal into the middle pane. Put any widget anywhere you wantof course.
[[User:Alta88|Alta88]] 18:09, 27 Feb 2006 (PST)Thanks
== Compatibility of ps--yes, I'm the addressbooks author of Outlook 2003 & TB 2.0 ==that RFC
There should be a full compatibility of the addressbook with Microsoft Outlook 2003 to support the spreading of TB == Differentiate between sent and to make it really timesaving!(Export possibility as *.xsl (Excel), Microsoft Access file, *.bcm (Outlook 2003 Business Contact Manager (~CRM)), *.pst (personal folder) and *.wab (Outlook Express addressbook)) unsent-but-[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]] 14:05, 2 Mar 2006 (PST)saved drafts ==
== Message FiltersIt'd be nice to be able to distinguish between sent drafts and unsent-but-saved drafts in my Thunderbird drafts folder.<br> See [[#Step_2: Make "Match all _Combined_.22Unsent_Messages.22.2C_.22Drafts.22_and_.22Sent.22_Folders|Major Usability Redesign of the following" the default ==Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]
When a new filter is entered using multiple rules, the choice "Match ALL of the following" should be the default, not "Match ANY of the following". The reason: If the user forgets to check this setting altogether, the suggested new default will touch the smaller number of message and thus cause less damage. == Post-it style note for Incoming e-[[User:Jos|Jos]] 11:30, 3 Mar 2006 (CET)mail ==
== Discussions : all there is a frequent need to make a note on a piece of incoming mail and then keep it in incoming or watched unread ==a follow-up folder for additional action as cited in the postit. Keep in mind, software for data processing should be an emulation of what would be a normal "by-hand" process - only smarter and more efficient. Follow-up stickys on hard copy files are an everyday process - probably in the millions daily. We need it in our paperless workplace.
Hello,== Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps) ==
I often use === Step 1: Combined Sender/Receiver Column ==='''Problem:''' Currently, in each custom mail folder there is a column for the sender of the message. For outgoing messages this is always ''your'' name. But you can't see the Display menureceiver! (Sure you can display the column for the receiver, Discussions optionbut the result are two redundant columns with only one information, to switch between "All" and "Watched unread"since in one of the two is always your own name).
It would be so nice to have a button and[[Image:CombinedToFromColumn.gif|Screenshot: Combined To/or a keyboard shortcut to do that instantly ...From-Column]]
== UI Redesign'''Proposed Improvement: View Tabs - View By Contacts''' Combine the sender and receiver columns to one "sender/receiver" column. This column would always show the other person's name, and never your own. To differentiate between incoming and outgoing messages, use emphasis (e.g. print outgoing messages in italics) and/or prefix outgoing messages with boldface/italics "To: " and/or use another (small) column showing an icon. Best solution, of course, would be to let the user select the way of emphasizing (italics, View By Attachmentscolor, Etcicon(s), etc.). ==
I'd like to see tabs at A request for enhancement exists for a combined To/From column in the main application levelthread pane (for SeaMonkey) [https://bugzilla. These tabs would allow you to find messages by attachments, contacts, date, etcmozilla. Individual mail folders or accounts could be pulled to the tab level as wellorg/show_bug.cgi?id=36489 Bug 36489] and (for Thunderbird) [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274232 Bug 274232]
It's a feature I've first seen done well in This step is, by and large, resolved with the extension [http://www.caeloggbs.comde/productsextensions/aboutShowInOut.php Nelson Email Organizerhtml Show InOut] but . So my suggestion is to include this extension's functionality into Thunderbird and set it only works with Outlook. A [http://www.caeloas the default behavior.com/images/nelsonscreenshotano_72.jpg screen shot can be found here]
I think this product has some excellent ideas that would take Thunderbird beyond anything Outlook does right now=== Step 2: Combined "Unsent Messages", "Drafts" and "Sent" Folder ==='''Problem:''' Currently, the folders "Unsent Messages" and "Drafts" are (almost) empty for (almost) all users (almost) all of the time. I know some The purpose of the features could be difficult to implementhaving three different outgoing folders (Unsent Messages, Drafts, but I'd like Sent) is only to at least see differentiate between the Tab concept be taken to status of the main UI level and not just the message tabs that are being disucssed nowmail.
This has already been filed as [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id== Birthay Field in address book for yearly events in Calendar Plugin ==197228 Bug 197228]and was suggested before, see point 5. at [[#UI_Liftup_and_stuff|UI Liftup and stuff]]
The most important reason for me to use a addressbook in relation to a calendar is to keep track of birthdays and anniversaries of friends, family, and colleagues[[Image:CombinedOutFolder.gif]]
Thunderbird has an address book, but it doesn't have fields for date ''Proposed Improvement:''' Combine these three folders to one "Out" folder. And show the status of birth or anniversaries.The nice Mozilla calendar Plugin the message by using emphasis (bold face for Thunderbird doesn't have an address book, forcing you to manually enter every contact's birthdaymessages not yet sent) and/anniversaryor a (small) column showing a status icon.
Sad but true, but this simple features is a reason for me (and '''Rationale:''' From a lot logical point of other people)view, still an outgoing message not yet sent is equivalent to use a old fashioned outlook instead a modern open source product like Thunderbird+calendarplugin!Imho it would be an incoming message not that big problem to implement a birthday field which can then easily integrated yet read. But only the latter are displayed in bold face in one combined "Inbox" folder (containing read messages as well as unread messages). So why not use the calendar plugin same simple system for outgoing as yearly event!well?
== More capable filtering =='''Note:''' By using different status icons, you could easily differentiate between sent drafts, unsent-but-saved drafts, messages ready to be sent, messages whose sending failed, etc., as suggested at [[#Differentiate_between_sent_and_unsent-but-saved_drafts|Differentiate between sent and unsent-but-saved drafts]]
I used Eudora for years === Step 3: Combined "In" and "Out" Folder ==='''Problem:''' Currently, if a user sticks with the only thing I truly miss now that I use Thunderbird is default folders "Inbox" and "Sent", incoming and outgoing messages are strictly separated. But if the really excellent filtering abilities Eudora hasuser creates custom folders, they contain both incoming and outgoing messages. Even Outlook has much better filtering than Thunderbird. This is a major reason why several colleagues I know refuse to switch to Thunderbird. It is also the only issue that regularly causes me frustration with Thunderbirdinconsistent.
To start with all incoming Emails really need '''Proposed Improvement:''' Combine the folders "Inbox" and "Out" (from Step 2) to be tagged with their one "profileMain" so that this never gets lostfolder. Basically this just means that the email account that received the message The differentiation between incoming and outgoing messages is achieved through emhpasis (POPe.g. italics, IMAP or whateversee Step 1) gets permanently assigned to . And the email no matter where it ends up in the folders differentiation between sent and unsent is achieved through bold face (or whatever. This information is incredibly helpful later for good filtering and to figure out what email address to use as the from when replyingicon, see Step 2).
Selection criteria suggestions for filters'''Rationale:<ul><li>It should be possible to indicate if ''' Any custom folder is a filter applies to combined incoming, /outgoing or both</li><li>You should be able to select "is in my address book" or "isnfolder. Why shouldn't in my address book" this system work for To, Cc and "To or cc" in addition to "from"</li><li>It needs to be possible to use which profile (see above) a message belongs to as a criteria.</li></ul>the program's default folders too?
Filter action suggestions[https:<ul><li>Bounce message to (same as Forward but does a bounce instead)</li><li>Set profile / account to - allows the profile which gets assigned automatically to be changed by a filter (which can be very handy)<bugzilla.mozilla.org/li><li>Set subject to - allows user to change the subject of the messageshow_bug. Some token should be assigned cgi?id=301084 Bug 301084] is related to allow inserting this step: The bug requests the old subject into the new one (so that text can be added option to automatically store replies in the subject).</li><li>Play Sound - Plays a custom sound if same folder in which the filter criteria matches</li><li>Speak - Very unlikely to get added, just thrown in since its original message is a new feature stored in Eudora and would be cool. Basically speaks I'm suggesting the from and subject contents aloud. Useful same thing for really important messages.</li><li>Print - immediately sends the message to the default printer. Useful for automation such as when sales orders or such are received.</li><li>Pop-Up Message - Displays a pop-up notification message regarding the message (this could contain the from & subject fields or whatever). Useful for really important messages.</li><li>Launch Application - runs a application specified by the user. Email info can be passed on the command line by allowing the user to indicate a tokenized command line as part of the application they specify.<In/li><li>Stop Filtering - Prevents any further filters from being run on the message. Unless this is encountered all filters which apply are executedOut folders too. This is very useful to prevent "default" rules which are frequently added at the end of the filter list from being executed.</li></ul>
One primary requirement is that it be much easier to manage filters when a user has many email accounts === Step 4: Threading/ profiles. IGrouping of Messages ==='''Rationale:'''ve been forced to duplicate the same filter across many Most email accounts which communication is difficult to manage. Since threaded: I use the shared inbox extensively but it is impossible to use which account received write a message as , I receive a criteria reply, I am unable to really utilize the new filters reply again, and so on . Single messages are the global inbox capability in TB1.5 which is unfortunate. Trying account / profile information to emails and allowing filters to use this along with some of exception, not the other above suggestions would make filters much more useful in v2.0rule.
Filtering capabilities such '''Problem:''' Currently, threaded messages are treated as the above would allow many power users who are currently stuck using other clients the choice to move to Thunderbirdexceptions. These should be very useful to a broad range of users who rely on ThunderbirdThe message grouping function is ridiculous & unusable.
<hr />I agree, the feature that keeps me using kmail is the ability '''Proposed Improvement:''' See points 1. to use a filter4. at [[#Improved_sorting_and_grouping_of_messages|Improved sorting and grouping of messages]]to pipe a message to a program and point (2) at [[#sorting_messages_by_subject_.28as_thread.29|sorting messages by subject (scriptas thread)]]. I believe that using a pipe is oftenmore useful than the "command line" approace in <ibr>Launch Application</i> abovePoint 4. at [[#UI_Liftup_and_stuff|UI Liftup and stuff]] is a duplicate.
== Message Filters '''In short:''' The entire system should have sortable views ==work as the folder tree in Windows Explorer: Expand&collapse threads, drag&drop messages, rename, and so on.
Problem: If you have a great number of message filters it is a '''VERYSuggestion on the display of those threads:''' hard to track down a filter if you want to update it (I have over 200 See[[#Show_subject_in_threads_only_one_time_- covering mailing lists and work contacts _show_names_in_position_of_subject|Show subject in threads only one time - each message is sent to its own folder)show names in position of subject]]
1) It would be very nice I list this as Step 4 here, because to me, such a grouping/threading feature only makes sense if it encompasses incoming as well as outgoing messages. There's no point in having "parallel" threads in the filter sort view option was restored (it was removed a while back)folders "Inbox" and "Sent".
2) Add a search option for those of us with a large number of filters
3'''Overall:''' In order not to confuse users, maybe you could keep the existing system as well and let the user choose the "Folder Setup" between "Outlook-style" and "Improved Usability" ;-) Allow the actions of filters to be nested
4--[[User:ThomasLandauer|ThomasLandauer]] 10:18, 16 August 2006 (PDT) Create/Edit filter option when dragging a message to a folder
== Auto-----I would just like to reiterate this contributor's plea. I've been ALL OVER the Mozilla site trying to find out how to do this, and it surprises me that such sorting isn't available yet. I migrated from Netscape, where it was possible to sort filters by name. I don't have the technical prowess to suggest the "how" but I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing for the improvement. Thanks.Hiding Preview Pane ==
==Don't wrap plain text attachments==The preview pane should have an auto-hide-option. Set, it should not be drawn by default and only appear whenever the user selects a message (maybe after a short delay of a second or so). It should dissappear again either after the user clicks on a respective hide-button or as soon as he starts scrolling.
Thunderbird needs an option Example: This way, the user can go through his folder more easily (more space). He may select a message to NOT autowrap plain text emailsbriefly check its content (the preview pane pops up), see its not the one he is looking for, start scrolling again (or hits the hide button) and the preview dissapears. This is a very effective way of implementing the preview, other mailing apps (i think pocomail?) have it. It should of course be toggleable, maybe even making switching between fixed, auto-hiding and no preview possible via keyboard shortcut (think F8).
The best option for this might be to make a menu option for turning on text wrapping. If it is turned off, then one could paste in a patch and it would not wrap the lines. If there was a paragraph or two at the top, then another menu option "rewrap text" while selecting the part you want to wrap would still work. Note, this is a general problem for Linux kernel devopers and free software developers in general. For example see the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/21/360 [[User:Jeff Carr|Jeff Carr]] 12:51, 6 April 2006 (PDT)== Status Log ==
== Phishing/Spoofing Reporting Tool ==There should be an option to display a log that contains the last status message (like the one displayed in the status bar). A user might return to his desk after some time and find it sensible to see wether TB did check emails, when it did, how many new messages where there and how many where successfully fetched.This may give a better experience to some users, especially the rather unexperienced ones: A programms actions (if so important and essential to the programms intention like the ones mentioned are to TB) must be transparent to the user.
A feature that I don't see == Search Messages results previewed in any mail clients at the moment is a straight-forward way to report phishing attempts to the appropriate people. Currently, I'm innundated with over 50 phishing attempts per day across a several accounts, and if there was a button (or a menu option) that I could choose to "report phishing" that could, based on the supposed return address, select from a table (that would exist in an external file, updated from someplace on the internet) the correct forwarding address and wrap the new message appropriately, then forward it to the right address (be that "spoof@ebay.com" or "abuse@chase.com", to name just two), it would cut down on the amount of effort that must be put in to reporting these things, and that in turn might encourage more people to report these scams as early as possible and reduce the chance that some people will fall for them.area pane ==
I agree. Firefox 2 is supposed to include After searching emails for specific content (or a phishing filtersender, so I was hoping that something like that might also leak into Thunderbird 2etc. After ) the results appear below in another pane, which lists all, e-mail is where a large amount of the phishing initiatesemails that fulfill the search criterion.
== Export is crucial for businesses ==But in order to view any of these emails, one must click on each and open it in a new window.
Exporting It would be much better if there was a third pane that showed the contents of mail the selected email, so that one could quickly go down the listing and preferences (including rules) are crucial. We know Mozilla would prefer to not have people migrate away from tbird, but real world requires see the ability to do so easily. I have found no easy way to do this in Linuxcontents of each email.
==Drag&Drop surface for creating filter rules Importing Mail from adressbookMac OS X Mail ==
There should be a graphical possibility to create simple filter rules:A window with (vertical) split view: When I was moving all the adressbook on the left, the mail folders on the right. Then simple mail filters (move mail mbox's from folder to folder, if adress matches) can be created by dragging single / multiple adresses or adress lists from the adressbook onto the folder, with little instruction where the according mails should be moved exactly toput them, I almost gave up and stuck with Mac Mail.A dialog window should warn in case of collisions (eIt took an entire night- this is very important.g. mails from I had more then one adress are already moved to another folder).There should be a possibility to view the existing filtersaccount on Mac Mail, too. This information could be displayed e.g. on mouse-over or the folder could be expanded/collapsed (+/- button) making it hard to view the assigned mail adressesswitch.
== Implementing md5-checksum creator for e-[[User:Clemente|Clemente]] 16:09, 2. May 2006 (MEST)mail attachments ==
== Add tags this way ==I'd like to see the automatical copy&paste of the md5-checksum of the imported attachments into one's E-Mail, so one could send the e-mail immediatly and fast with automatically integrated, correct md5-checksums to someone else!This would enchance security issues greatly, while saving a lot of time for users using md5-checksums a lot of times! --[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]] 12:30, 25 September 2006 (PDT)
There is already an extension that allows you == Ability to add tags select from multiple VCFs to Thunderbird. It's called HeaderTools and in it's latest version (0.56) it's easy attach to add tags to mails. Check this [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?pan outgoing message ==2255007#2255007 thread] for more info.
With I have several functions in my job, and have two official titles which I use depending on whom I'm communicating with. It would be great if, for each outgoing message, one could choose from a few UIpop-improvements this extension does everything up menu which of several VCF files (or none) to attach to that is planned particular message. All for tags when it comes to TB 2.0. Should save the developers a lot of worksame identity.
== 2 new search options ==Also, as mentioned by others, I would very much like to see VCF import capability into the address book. Drag & drop import/export would be fantastic.
I'd like to see 2 new search options in Thunderbird 2.0== Microformats support:Subject or To or CCSubject or Sender or To or CCiCalendar / vCalendar / iCard / vCard ==
Also :(is this page intentionally kept unstructured? is it a good idea, to make a separate section for the original bug 279855 has been fixed.addressbook, for example?)
The patch Looking at http://microformats.org gives many hopes for standardising the field of contact and event management fields, especially after what Google Calendar has created. For me, the clear need is to make the Addressbook an external application, and make Firefox, Calendar/Sunbird, and Thunderbird 1use it. I have put the iCalendar support also here, because email client has to pupport it, in order to understand the "event" microformat attachments to emails.5(Interchangeability of the contacts and events/appointments should be a cooperative aim for the information exchange application creators, like the RSS technology.0It's not about proprietarisation and dominating the market.2) works It's about possibilities for me for 3 month without any problemsthe user.What do You think? (sorry, I haven't signed at first) (it is now 13:04, as I write it)--[[User:Njpl|Njpl]] 04:04, 1 October 2006 (PDT)
A patch is available at:https:== Back und Forward buttons //bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?idHistory of "visited" folders ==279855#c8
== Email notification sounds ==I think it would be swell if Thunderbird sported a history of the last visited folders and gave us a forward and back button to navigate that history. I often find myself wondering where that last message I looked at was located before that new email arrived. Clicking on "Back" in this moment would save hours of my life time. The history wouldn't have to be very long and it doesn't have to be saved between sessions. 20 entries should do just fine. --[[User:Manni|Manni]] 23:15, 15 October 2006 (PDT)
I second the suggestion above for*Add custom sound files as == Offer a selectable action in the filters. So that rules can trigger a different wav file for each sender.The closest thing currently available is a [https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2085/ randomizer]. -[[User:Monkey1|Monkey1]] 00:51, 26 May 2006 (PDT)default Domain option ==
== Address book improvements ==Please add a preference in which you can define a default domain to be added to all addresses which don't have one. Eudora has this feature. For me, T'bird is unusable without it. --[[User:Mkmelin|Mkmelin]]: isn't that what the mail.identity.default.autocompleteToMyDomain pref is for?
It will be fine to implement tree structure for == Thunderbird should recognize that an email address book or implement grouping addresses by firm for example.I'm using a few accounts with TD - one for private mailing, another for bussines etc. It will be very usefull to associate default mail account for sending message with vcard. Sorry for my englishis already known.==
== Allow Different Location for Address Book / Email ==Right now (1.5.7) I always press ADD TO personal ADDRESSBOOK and in the same moment Thunderbird creates the second, third, fourth entry about the very same email address.
One feature that As Gmail user I would find helpful is am used to alaways press the ability ADD to create an address book at another location ADRESSBOOK -- for exampleButton, on a network shared drive. On my home network, I store most of my files on a common network fileserver that is backed up on a regular basis. By allowing me to store my address book on this drive would make it available to all of the computers on my network as well as ensure that whenever it is backed up with all of my other personal datavisible.
The feature could be implemented either by allowing the only workaround is to filter unknown persons into an extra folder , what I normally wouldn?t do. It?s not such a big problem for myself, but it prevents me from installing Thunderbird uses to be changed a secretary office, where Outlook 2003 is still in options or using standard File Open/Save dialogs daily use by some girls who don?t know yet about my plan to give Thunderbird as gift to manage address booksthem.[[User:Steffen Kaufmann|SK october 21th]]
== Catalog and list management Add personalized categories for contacts ==
If a group of users like Thunderbird could have more options to make an arrangement for a social event, they need to collect categorize and merge all answers and changes for this event from each user in separated manage contacts. Contact list. For exampleis great but could be completed with categories :If a user has some friends and need when you can add category to know what the others contacts, you can bring along for the next party. Then he send an email to his friends and asks for ideascreate a contact list yourself in 2 clicks when writing a new message. All friends normally send It's a message back to all others (Reply All) and checks the incoming message of the others great idea for collisions, emanaging contacts efficiently when we have so much contacts.g. to many drinks and no food.An easy the contact list filter can collect all emails for the specified is a list (special ID) and should merge ready to send, the special list entry of each user-email (in category are a separated data structure). Furthermore a pure list GUI would efficient search and managing help to keep track of it.
== Permit the dumping/filtering of non-text email ==The search box could make advanced searches with categories. THIS would be very professional, txs!
Add a filter that would strip (and delete) the html copy of a message when both text and html versions are included'''''NOTE: TB Addressbook''''' 1. And, when no text version is provided, convert the html version to pure text by stripping the html tags and retaining the resulting text as the body of the message5. Selecting only the first and filtering when the resulting message is null would eliminate html-only messages0.8 '''''already has a "category" item!'''''
== Take into account Unfortunatly it's not presented on the studies & experiences of standard TB/AB UI. Currently it's not a problem to enable it with a user-written extension .. that's I have done based on the IBM Remail Project! ==extension "MoreColsforAddressbook".
I think Because this TB-item is widely unknown -- as the usage is -- it would 's not clear if in the future this item will be VERY important and useful to take into account the deliberations part of the Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research made in / at / with [url=http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/index.html]Remail[/url]standard definition!
Please also notify me about your progress see on ''mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird'':[http:/ idea concerning this appeal of mine!/groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/548e829a9960447/9281235a93662d66?lnk=gst&q=neandr&rnum=5#9281235a93662d66]Comment by >>Mark Banner Di 28 Nov. 2006 16:04<<-- [[User:Neandr|neandr]] 02:50, 15 December 2006 (PST)
Thanks == Show contacts of a contact list in advance!the To: field when sending message ==
--[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]] 04:53When sending a message to a contact list, 4 July 2006 (PDT)it's great to have the possibility to delete just one or two person in the contact list without modify the contact list itself, or it's just important to see who's on the list.
== application/mbox MIME support ==So if thunderbird can show and let choose the contacts of a contact list when sending message, it would be great!
I'd like to encourage the adoption of [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4155.txt RFC4155--The way outlook do this is by giving a [+], which defines an applicationin front of email list name in To/mbox media-type for email systems. Essentially it defines a MIME type for *CC entry box.mbox files, which gives you a hook into mailfolders Clicking on a filesystem, similar to the way that Web browser have hooks "+" expands the list into *.html files.individual mail ids
Some of the ways that this could be used in Thunderbird:== Notification icon ==
Read/Search mail messages in a For God's sake, PLEASE get Thunderbird on Mac OS X to not show the Local Folders folder that (and dock icon) as unread if one has not been imported into quickly manually selected (and either moved away from or deleted) all unread messages. Although the client (EGblue indicator turns off successfully if one selects items slowly, download a mailing list archive in Firefox it will not turn off if one has selected and have Thunderbird display moved away from or deleted the folder as last unread message. This is especially annoying if it were part of one frequently receives junk mail and wishes to quickly delete the local mailstore)junk mail. Thank you!!!!
Archive an existing folder == Scan to Email in Windows==I got a disk-based folder, such as when "scan to email" option on my scanner which I'd love to use. When I choose "Scan to Image" the standard scanner wizard is started and saves the file to some location. If there would be some trick to get the wizard attach the image to a project has been completednew email, with awareness that it is in fact would be quite a mailstore objectgreat feature which wouldn't require much work.
Import Of coure, I don't think that Thunderbird should containt a folderfull scanning software, such as but this trick would make it a historical archive or a mailing list archive, etcbit better. Thanks.
Send/receive folders as email attachments== Allow reply header option like outlook ==
Most of that is possible today with extraneous tools, but it would be nice if Thunderbird had direct support for this kind of feature set without requiring the user to import a folder for direct manipulation[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67089 bug 67089]
Better support for raw message/rfc822 filesystem objects would be cool too -----Original Message----- From: SenderName <senderemail@yourisp.com> Sent: Monday, January 29, of course2001 8:42 AM To: YourName <youremail@yourisp.com> Subject: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi,Thanks Original mail content
ps--yes, I'm the author of that RFC== Easy switch for outgoing mail server. ==
== Differentiate between sent and unsent-but-saved drafts ==People may be using a Laptop at home or at office.Email client should make it easy to switch outgoing mail server.May be something similar to [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/125/ SwitchProxy Tool].
It== Contact'd be nice to be able to distinguish between sent drafts and unsent-but-saved drafts in my Thunderbird drafts folder.<br> See [[#Step_2:_Combined_.22Unsent_Messages.22.2C_.22Drafts.22_and_.22Sent.22_Folders|Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps)]]s default account ==
== Post-Would it style note be possible to add the ability to set a default account for Incoming eeach contact in my address book. For security reasons, my employers use a separate mail-server for 'internal' and for 'external' mail ==, and further, I sometimes send email to test/dev systems. It would be very nice if tb would select the correct outgoing server for the contact, instead of my having to manually select each time.
there is a frequent need to make a note on a piece of incoming mail and then keep it in incoming or a follow-up folder for additional action as cited in the postit. Keep in mind, software for data processing should be an emulation of what would be a normal "by-hand" process - only smarter and more efficient. Follow-up stickys on hard copy files are an everyday process - probably in the millions daily. We need it in our paperless workplace.== True portability ==
== Major Usability Redesign of Folders & Threads (in 4 Steps) ==After using Portable Thunderbird for a while so that I can access my accounts and mail from three different computers, I started to wonder why Thunderbird isn't more portability-friendly to begin with.
=== Step 1: Combined Sender/Receiver Column ===Since I don'''Problem:''' Currentlyt want to run Portable Thunderbird off my USB all day at work, in each custom mail folder there is a column for the sender of the message. For outgoing messages this is always ''your'' nameI synch my profile to Portable Thunderbird every evening and run that at home. But you canit't see the receiver! s not entirely smooth: Portable Thunderbird always wants to rebuild summary files (Sure you which can display the column take a while for the receivera big Sent mail folder, but the result are two redundant columns with only one informationfor example), since in one of the two etc. And even then, odd things happen - read mail is always your own name)sometimes marked unread, etc.And trying to copy files between computers without Portable Thunderbird is truly maddening!
[[Image:CombinedToFromColumnIMAP is fine if you can count on unlimited storage and bullet-proof Net access 24/7...but many users would benefit from structuring Thunderbird so that the profile folder is completely independent of where or how it's installed. The user should be able to simply copy his/her profile folder from one computer to the next and voila.gif|Screenshot: Combined To/From-Column]]keep this trim, it might even be desirable to keep extension and theme data in a separate folder, which likewise would ideally be completely portable.
'''Proposed Improvement:''' Combine the sender and receiver columns to one "sender/receiver" column. This column would always show the other person's name, and never your own. To differentiate between incoming and outgoing messages, use emphasis (e.g. print outgoing messages in italics) and/or prefix outgoing messages with boldface/italics "To: " and/or use another (small) column showing an icon. Best solution, of course, would be to let the user select the way of emphasizing (italics, color, icon(s), etc.).== Mail file structure ==
A request for enhancement exists for a combined To/From column in the thread pane (for SeaMonkey) [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36489 Bug 36489] and (for Thunderbird) [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274232 Bug 274232]
This step Is one large file for each mail folder really the most efficient way to go? Almost every major problem I've had or heard about with Thunderbird comes from some kind of corruption or other problem with these files, which can get huge. Plus, this structure necessitates all kinds of other things like file compaction, attachment stripping, etc. The profile folder isconfusing with contents-less folders, summary files, by duplicate file structures for individual accounts and largeglobal folders, resolved with the extension [http://wwwetc.ggbs.de/extensions/ShowInOut.html Show InOut]. So my suggestion is I would love to include see this extension's functionality into Thunderbird smoothed out and set it as the default behaviorstreamlined.
==Strip attachments enhancements = Step 2: Combined "Unsent Messages", "Drafts" and "Sent" Folder ==='''Problem:''' Currently, the folders "Unsent Messages" and "Drafts" are (almost) empty for (almost) all users (almost) all of the time. The purpose of having three different outgoing folders (Unsent Messages, Drafts, Sent) is only to differentiate between the status of the mail.
This has already been filed The ability to strip an attachment from a message is great, but could be improved: (1) option to automatically strip attachments from messages as [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197228 Bug 197228]and was suggested beforethey're saved in the Sent folder, see point 5. at [[#UI_Liftup_and_stuff|UI Liftup and stuff]](2) filter that can strip attachments from all messages in a specified folder
[[Image:CombinedOutFolder.gif]]== Address Book Features ==
'''Proposed Improvement:''' Combine these three folders I would like to one have the option to "tag" each contact as "Outprimary contact" and have a list of my primary contacts appear on the main window in a cell below the folderstructure. And show From this "primary contact" list along with the status of complete address book, double clicking a name would create an e-mail. I would like to see multiple selection e.g. single clicking on multiple names would then give the option to add those selected contacts in the message by using emphasis (bold face for messages not yet sent) and/cc or a (small) column showing a status iconbcc fields.
'''Rationale== Address Book Option:''' From a logical point of view, an outgoing message not yet sent is equivalent to an incoming message not yet read. But only the latter are displayed in bold face in one combined "Inbox" folder (containing read messages as well as unread messages). So why not use the same simple system for outgoing as well?HTML Mails ==
In Thunderbird there is a setting how to react when a HTML mail is to be send to a recipient who does not wish to receive HTML formatted mail (settable by the "Recipient refuses HTML"-popup-menu). However, if the according setting in the addressbook is left at the default value 'unknown HTML preference' Thunderbird automatically assumes that the recipient refuses to get HTML-Mails. I propose to add a setting where one can choose if 'unknown'means 'Note:recipient refuses HTML mail'or 'recipient accepts HTML mail' By using different status icons, you . This setting could easily differentiate between sent drafts, unsentbe accessed by a checkmark in the settings dialog besides the "Recipient refuses HTML"-butpopup-saved drafts, messages ready to be sent, messages whose sending failed, etcmenu., as suggested at [[#Differentiate_between_sent_and_unsent-but-saved_drafts|Differentiate between sent and unsent-but-saved drafts]]
==Multiple Install Instances of Thunderbird = Step 3: Combined "In" and "Out" Folder ==='''Problem:''' Currently, if a user sticks with the default folders "Inbox" and "Sent", incoming and outgoing messages are strictly separated. But if the user creates custom folders, they contain both incoming and outgoing messages. This is inconsistent.
One of the features I'''Proposed Improvement:''' Combine ve most enjoyed about my long time client, Eudora, was the folders "Inbox" ability to install and "Out" (run multiple instances of the program, if you so choose. This has allowed me to keep my various business accounts completely separate from Step 2) my various personal accounts. If I want to one "Main" folder. The differentiation between incoming and outgoing messages is achieved through emhpasis (access my business e-mail, I simply open that instance of Eudora.g. italics No configuring of multiple logons, servers, see Step 1)etc. And the differentiation between sent and unsent is achieved through bold face (or icon, see Step 2) Simply open one program for one e-mail account.
'''Rationale:''' Any custom folder is a combined incoming/outgoing It also greatly simplifies the backing up of my e-mail, complete with all settings and customizations, since you simply back up the entire folder- without the need to search for additional parts and pieces. Why shouldn't this system work for the program's default folders too?
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301084 Bug 301084] is related Qualcomm has stated that they are releasing Eudora to this step: The bug requests the option to automatically store replies in open source community, and I've read that the same folder in which the original message is stored inThunderbird team will be taking a crack at it, either incorporating features of Eudora into Tbird, or visa versa. If any Eudora feature makes it into Tbird, I'm suggesting hope this is the same thing for the default In/Out folders tooone. And, if any features are going to be removed from Eudora, please leave this one.
=== Step 4: Threading/Grouping of Messages ==='''Rationale:''' Most email communication is threaded: I write a messageuse Tbird at work, as I only have the one account to contend with there. But, at home, where I receive shuffle a replyminimum of six accounts at all times, I reply againstill use Eudora, and so onsimply for the reason noted above. Single messages are Otherwise, liking the exceptionfeature set and functionality of Tbird immensely, not the ruleI likely would have already switched.
'''Problem:''' Currently, threaded messages are treated as exceptions. The message grouping function is ridiculous & unusable.== Password Protect Message Panes Upon Bootup ==
'''Proposed Improvement:''' See points 1. It would be nice if there was an option to prohibit access to 4. at [[#Improved_sorting_and_grouping_of_messages|Improved sorting and grouping of messages]]and point (2) at [[#sorting_messages_by_subject_Thunderbird when it is booted unless a password is entered.28as_thread.29|sorting This would be helpful in case there were confidential information stored in email messages by subject (as thread)]].<br>Point 4. at [[#UI_Liftup_and_stuff|UI Liftup and stuff]] is a duplicateon the hard drive.
'''In short:''' == Server side mail filter support ==I think that integration with server side mail filter will be a real good thing. The entire system should work as integration will use the folder tree in Windows Explorer: Expand&collapse threads, drag&drop messages, rename, existing filter wizard and so a checkbox indicate that the rule will be stored onthe server. The checkbox is active only when a server protocol is supported.The Cyrus Sieve via timsieved can be the first system to be integrated.--[[User:Malix|Malix]] 18:57, 14 Jan 2006 (PST)
'''Suggestion on A further enhancement to this implementation would be to automatically parse any server side script (either Thunderbird generated or otherwise) to see which folders are destinations for server side filters. Thunderbird could then automatically check these folders for new mail messages. This would suppliment the display of those threads:''' Seeability for a user to manually specify which folders to check via the folder properties dialog. It may be that some users would not like this feature and so it should be a user option e.g. "Check filter destinations for new mail".--[[#Show_subject_in_threads_only_one_time_-_show_names_in_position_of_subjectUser:Coling|Show subject in threads only one time - show names in position of subjectColing]]22:25, 25 Jan 2006 (GMT)
I list this as Step 4 here, because to me, such a grouping==Merging "Message Filter"-entries /threading feature only makes sense if it encompasses incoming as well as outgoing creating rules from multiple messages==Just select e.g. There's no point in having "parallel" threads in 2 messages and select the folders menu "Inboxcreate filter from message" .Would also be nice if you could select 2 (or more) filter entries and "Sent"make one of them.--[[User:AliB|aliB]]
== Allow Filters not only for Inbox ==
'''Overall:''' In order not It would be nice to be able to confuse usersset up Filter Rules that work on an arbitrary Folder, maybe you could keep the existing system as well and let the user choose the "Folder Setup" between "Outlook-style" and "Improved Usability" ;-)example:
--[[User:ThomasLandauerFor Folder |Sent|ThomasLandauer]] 10:18, 16 August 2006 (PDT)
== Auto-Hiding Preview Pane ==[ ]Match all of the following [x]Match any of the following
The preview pane should have an auto-hide-option. Set, it should not be drawn by default and only appear whenever the user selects a message (maybe after a short delay of a second or so). It should dissappear again either after the user clicks on a respective hide-button or as soon as he starts scrolling.|Age in days| |is| |30|
ExamplePerform these actions: This way, the user can go through his folder more easily (more space). He may select a message to briefly check its content (the preview pane pops up), see its not the one he is looking for, start scrolling again (or hits the hide button) and the preview dissapears. This is a very effective way of implementing the preview, other mailing apps (i think pocomail?) have it. It should of course be toggleable, maybe even making switching between fixed, auto-hiding and no preview possible via keyboard shortcut (think F8).
== Status Log ==|Move Message to| |Trash|
There should be an option to display a log that contains the last status message (like the one displayed in the status bar). A user might return to his desk after some time and find it sensible to see wether TB did check emails, when it did, how many new messages where there and how many where successfully fetched.This may give a better experience to some users, especially the rather unexperienced ones--[[User: A programms actions (if so important and essential to the programms intention like the ones mentioned are to TB) must be transparent to the user.Stebs|Stebs]] 30 Nov 2005
== Search Messages results previewed I agree. I had to disable a filter for moving in new message area pane ==my Sent file to another folder in order to have a filter based on a particular domain for the Inbox of one account. Looked for an extension that would handle this, there was none. Can we please make this a feature?
After searching emails for specific content --[[User:M7csat|M7csat]] 13:02, 5 July 2006 (or a sender, etc.PDT) the results appear below in another pane, which lists all of the emails that fulfill the search criterion.
But in order to view any I would use this tool exactly the same way: deleting sent mail after some number of these emailsdays. Currently, you can set up this filter and it works, one must click but it has to be run manually. Filters that can run on each a specific folder and open it in *according to a specific schedule* (on startup, on shutdown, daily, weekly...) would be a new windowgreat improvment.
It would be much better if there was a third pane that showed the contents of the selected email, so that one could quickly go down the listing and see the contents of each email.== Allow adaptive filters not only for Junk ==
== Importing Mail Similar to not only allow Filters for any folder it would be nice to have different adaptive filters apply to different folders/collections of messages. So one could possibly train a filter to match the most interesting items on an RSS stream, and use the same filter on a folder where the mails from Mac OS X Mail ==a newly subscribed mailing list with similar content goes. Used in this way, the adaptive filter would be a positive filter, which could be used in filter rules. Each adaptive Filter would have name and a message could be matched by more than one filter (where the highest priority rule succeeds).
When I was moving all This kind of adaptive filtering would greatly improve searching through news items as tastes and interests would manifest themselves in the mbox's from folder to folder, with little instruction where exactly to put them, I almost gave up and stuck with Mac Mail. It took an entire night- this is very important. I had more then one account on Mac Mail, making it hard to switchadaptive filters.
== Implementing md5-checksum creator for e-mail attachments ==[[User:heron|heron]] 30 Nov 2005
I'd like support this suggestion. To take it a little further. From using other email packages, being able to see the automatical do relative date filtering is a plus [if XXX days (weeks, months) then move (delete, copy&paste of the md5-checksum , foward)] . It allowed me to execute an action based on age of the imported attachments into one's E-Mailemail, so one could send the e-mail immediatly and fast with automatically integrated.g., correct md5-checksums to someone else!This would enchance security issues greatlyautomatic deletion after 30 days old. The big plus here is, while saving a lot managing the volume of time for users using md5-checksums a lot of times! email, espeically if you have limited space.--[[User:UncleFu86|UncleFu86]benjiesp] 12:30, 25 September MAY 2006 (PDT)
== Ability to select from multiple VCFs to attach to an outgoing message ==Thanks
I have several functions in my job, and have two official titles which I use depending on whom I'm communicating with. It A negative filtering like junk would be great if, very interesting for each outgoing messagethe items on amo-feeds. --[[User:Archaeopteryx|Archaeopteryx]] 05:39, one could choose from a pop-up menu which of several VCF files 10 October 2006 (or nonePDT) to attach to that particular message. All for the same identity.
Also, as mentioned by others, I would very much like to see VCF import capability into the address book. Drag & drop import/export would be fantastic.== Extended Filter options ==
== Microformats support: iCalendar / vCalendar / iCard / vCard ==Filters in current versions of TB have an option for 'any of the following' or 'all of the following' which is either a giant union or intersection of all filter rules. It would be very useful if we could make more complex boolean expressions, like adding OR and AND between the different rules. Furthermore, itwould be helpful if you could import filters into filters.
:(is this page intentionally kept unstructured? is it It would also be nice to create filters from mails, e.g. mails from any of the recipients of a good idea, certain message should be moved to make a separate section for the addressbook, for example?)folder.
Looking at http://microformatsIf it's possible to link a filter to a list in the addressbook, e.org gives many hopes for standardising g. if the field sender matches any of contact and event management fields, especially after what Google Calendar has created. For me, the clear need is to make members in the Addressbook an external application, and make Firefoxlist, Calendar/Sunbird, and Thunderbird use it. I have put move the iCalendar support also here, because email client has mail to pupport ita folder, in order to understand that would save the "event" microformat attachments double work to emails. Interchangeability of manage the contacts and events/appointments should be a cooperative aim for the information exchange application creators, like list both in the RSS technology. It's not about proprietarisation addressbook and dominating the market. It's about possibilities for the userfilter. What do You think? (sorry, I haven't signed at first) (it is now 13:04, as I write it)--[[User:Njpl|Njpl]] 04:04, 1 October 2006 (PDT)
== Back und Forward buttons / History Added comment: Also Demon Turnpike-like regexps in text is needed. This would allow something like pe[n]+*s to cover pennis, pen1s and so on. I find some of "visited" folders ==my Turnpike single expressions turn into a dozen in TB.
I think it It would be swell nice if you can start some script action, depending on your filter rules. E.g. start an alert bell if Thunderbird sported a history of the last visited folders and gave us mail comes in from a forward and back button special sender. Scripts would ideally not be limited to navigate that historysome Thunderbird sub-language, but could actually run files on the filesystem (such as Microsoft Entourage 2004 does). I often find myself wondering where that last message I looked at was located before that new email arrived. Clicking Thus, one could expand on "Back" in this moment would save hours of my life time. The history wouldn't have the alert bell idea to be very long and it doesn't have to be saved between sessionsa script selectively run (e. 20 entries should do just fineg. --[[User:Manni|Manni]] 23:15, 15 October 2006 (PDTApplescript on Mac OS)to turn up the computer's speakers and speak out the name of the sender.
== Offer a default Domain option Filter for all accounts ==
Please add a preference in which If you can define create a default domain to be added to all addresses which don't have onefilter for e.g. Eudora has this feature"username@provider. For mecom", T'bird is unusable without it. --[[User:Mkmelin|Mkmelin]]: isnthe filter doesn't that what the mailhave any affect on account "username2@provider.identitycom".default.autocompleteToMyDomain pref is for?
== Thunderbird There should recognize that be an email address is already knownoption, if you want to create the filter for only this account, for some special (menue-list) or for all accounts...==
Right now (1It's very useful, I think..5.7) I always press ADD TO personal ADDRESSBOOK and think it could be alredy in the same moment Thunderbird creates 1.5? Or isn't the second, third, fourth entry about the very same email address.idea bad? ;-)
As Gmail user I am used to alaways press the ADD to ADRESSBOOK - ButtonDear, whenever it is visible.MCXSC
The only workaround is == Possibility to set "Junk" flag via filter unknown persons into an extra folder, what I normally wouldn�t do. It�s not such a big problem for myself, but it prevents me from installing Thunderbird to a secretary office, where Outlook 2003 is still in daily use by some girls who don�t know yet about my plan to give Thunderbird as gift to them. [[User:Steffen Kaufmann|SK october 21th]]==
== Add personalized categories for contacts ==Hi,
Thunderbird could have more options to categorize and manage contacts. Contact list is it would be great but could be completed with categories : when you can add category to contacts, if you can create a contact list yourself rule in 2 clicks when writing a new messagethe "filter" area, that sets the "Junk"-flag for e-mails. It' s a great idea for managing contacts efficiently when we have so much contacts..g. All incomming mail should automatically marked as junk, if the contact list subject line is a list ready to send, the category are a efficient search and managing helpempty.
The search box could make advanced searches with categories. THIS would be very professional, txs!
'''''NOTEEdit by schiieech: TB Addressbook''''' That?s allready included in TB 1.5.0.8 '''''already has a It is called "categorySet Junk Status to" item!'''''.
Unfortunatly it's not presented on the standard TB/AB UI. Currently it's not a problem to enable it with a user== Editing Message Filters -written extension .. that's I have done based on the extension "MoreColsforAddressbook".Move To: Folder PopUp too short ==
Because this TB-item is widely unknown -Using Thunderbird 1.5b on Mac OS 10.4.3, when I edit a message filter, and choose (from the lower pane) Move To, the right pop- up displays my message folders as expected, but the usage list is -- it's not clear if in so narrow that the future this item will folder names are truncated so much as to be part of mostly unreadable. Resizing the standard definition!dialog window makes no difference.
Please see on ''mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbirdI'm a newbie to both Thunderbird AND this wiki, so I hope I':[http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.appsve put this in the right place.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/548e829a9960447/9281235a93662d66?lnk=gst&q=neandr&rnum=5#9281235a93662d66]Comment by >>Mark Banner Di 28 Nov. 2006 16:04<<-- [[User:Neandr|neandr]] 02:50, 15 December 2006 (PST)
== Show contacts of a contact list in the To: field when sending message Auto Forward From Drop In Folder or Report as Spam Button ==
When sending Many of us have server spam filters. By simply forwarding a message Spam back to a contact listparticular address on the server, it's great is reported to have the possibility to delete just one or two person in the contact list without modify the contact list itself, that system as spam or it's just important to see who's on the listham for future reference.
So if thunderbird can show and let choose the contacts of a contact list when sending messageIt looks like Thunderbird is so very close to having this, but it would be great!requires a filter action to do the auto forwarding.
----The way outlook do this I would like to be able to set a filter on a folder, where any message I move into that folder is by giving forwarded back to my spam reporting address. Alternatively, have a [+] in front of single button for forwarding any particular email list name in To/CC entry boxback to the server's spam address.Clicking on the "+" expands the list into individual mail ids
==Filter enchancement: execution after reading==Filters This would be useful for inbox are executing after receivingmany anti-spam systems. In my office where TB runs permanently One could use this to both whitelist and I'm not always front blacklist via SpamAssassin. Report spam to Dspam. End the arduous task of my screen, I miss some mails becausethey are already filtered selecting forward and moved then beginning to type in the defined folderspam reporting address and then clicking on send. This follows into to lost the message in the way, that I can not react just-in-time. It one drop or one click would beawesome.better, if == "I can define don't know" category for '''some''' spam filtering == This is one of the filters that most useful features of SpamBayes, and I haven't seen it shall be executed implemented in inbox '''after''' reading the messageany other Bayesian spam filter. The idea is that instead of setting one threshold between "spam" and "not spam," you can set two thresholds --[[User:Celald|Celald]] 02:54one for "anything below this is certainly not spam, 26 October 2006 (PDT)" and one for "anything above this is certainly spam." Anything between the two thresholds falls into the "I don't know" category.
== Notification icon ==Note that this feature does not require any change to the basic Bayesian algorithm that assigns the scores; it simply provides more flexible handling of the messages once the scores are assigned.
For God's sakeWith this in place, PLEASE get Thunderbird on Mac OS X to not show SpamBayes currently achieves nearly 100% accuracy for me - in the Local Folders folder (and dock icon) sense that no spam is ever filed as unread if one has quickly manually selected (not spam, and either moved away from or deleted) all unread messagesvice-versa. Although A very small percentage of my email goes into the blue indicator turns off successfully if one selects items slowly"I don't know" category, where it will not turn off if one has selected is easy to review. and moved away from or deleted Also training only the last unread message. This messages that fall into this category is especially annoying if one frequently receives junk mail a pretty easy and wishes to quickly delete the junk maileffective training strategy. Thank you!!!!
== Scan to Email in Windows==With this one feature, I got a "scan to email" option on my scanner which believe I'd love to use. When I choose "Scan to Image" the standard scanner wizard is started could stop using SpamBayes, and saves the file to some location. If there would be some trick to get take advantage of the wizard attach tighter integration of the image to a new email, it would be quite a great feature which wouldn't require much workThunderbird spam filtering.
Of coure, I don't think that Thunderbird should containt a full scanning software, but this trick would make it a bit better. Thanks.== Message Filters: Make "Match all of the following" the default ==
== Allow reply header option like outlook ==When a new filter is entered using multiple rules, the choice "Match ALL of the following" should be the default, not "Match ANY of the following". The reason: If the user forgets to check this setting altogether, the suggested new default will touch the smaller number of message and thus cause less damage. --[[User:Jos|Jos]] 11:30, 3 Mar 2006 (CET)
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67089 bug 67089]= More capable filtering ==
I used Eudora for years and the only thing I truly miss now that I use Thunderbird is the really excellent filtering abilities Eudora has. -----Original Message-----Even Outlook has much better filtering than Thunderbird. From: SenderName <senderemail@yourispThis is a major reason why several colleagues I know refuse to switch to Thunderbird.com> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:42 AM To: YourName <youremail@yourispIt is also the only issue that regularly causes me frustration with Thunderbird.com> Subject: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi, Original mail content
== Easy switch To start with all incoming Emails really need to be tagged with their "profile" so that this never gets lost. Basically this just means that the email account that received the message (POP, IMAP or whatever) gets permanently assigned to the email no matter where it ends up in the folders or whatever. This information is incredibly helpful later for outgoing mail servergood filtering and to figure out what email address to use as the from when replying. ==
People may Selection criteria suggestions for filters:<ul><li>It should be using possible to indicate if a Laptop at home filter applies to incoming, outgoing or at office.both</li>Email client <li>You should make it easy be able to switch outgoing mail server.select "is in my address book" or "isn't in my address book" for To, Cc and "To or cc" in addition to "from"</li>May <li>It needs to be something similar possible to [https://addons.mozillause which profile (see above) a message belongs to as a criteria.org</firefoxli></125/ SwitchProxy Tool].ul>
== Contact's default account ==Filter action suggestions:<ul>Would it be possible <li>Bounce message to (same as Forward but does a bounce instead)</li><li>Set profile / account to add - allows the ability profile which gets assigned automatically to set be changed by a default account for each contact in my address bookfilter (which can be very handy)</li><li>Set subject to - allows user to change the subject of the message. For security reasons, my employers use Some token should be assigned to allow inserting the old subject into the new one (so that text can be added to the subject).</li><li>Play Sound - Plays a separate mailcustom sound if the filter criteria matches</li><li>Speak -server for 'internal' and for 'external' mailVery unlikely to get added, just thrown in since its is a new feature in Eudora and further, I sometimes send email to test/dev systemswould be cool. It would be very nice if tb would select Basically speaks the correct outgoing server from and subject contents aloud. Useful for really important messages.</li><li>Print - immediately sends the contact, instead of my having message to manually select each timethe default printer. Useful for automation such as when sales orders or such are received.</li><li>Pop-Up Message - Displays a pop-up notification message regarding the message (this could contain the from & subject fields or whatever). Useful for really important messages.</li>== True portability == After using Portable Thunderbird for <li>Launch Application - runs a while so that I application specified by the user. Email info can access my accounts and mail from three different computers, I started be passed on the command line by allowing the user to wonder why Thunderbird isn't more portabilityindicate a tokenized command line as part of the application they specify.</li><li>Stop Filtering -friendly Prevents any further filters from being run on the message. Unless this is encountered all filters which apply are executed. This is very useful to begin withprevent "default" rules which are frequently added at the end of the filter list from being executed.</li></ul>
Since One primary requirement is that it be much easier to manage filters when a user has many email accounts / profiles. I don't want ve been forced to run Portable Thunderbird off my USB all day at work, I synch my profile duplicate the same filter across many email accounts which is difficult to Portable Thunderbird every evening and run that at homemanage. But Since I use the shared inbox extensively but it's not entirely smooth: Portable Thunderbird always wants is impossible to rebuild summary files (use which can take account received a while for message as a big Sent mail folder, for example), etccriteria I am unable to really utilize the new filters on the global inbox capability in TB1. And even then, odd things happen - read mail 5 which is sometimes marked unread, etcunfortunate. And trying Trying account / profile information to emails and allowing filters to copy files between computers without Portable Thunderbird is truly maddening!use this along with some of the other above suggestions would make filters much more useful in v2.0.
IMAP is fine if you can count on unlimited storage and bullet-proof Net access 24/7...but Filtering capabilities such as the above would allow many power users would benefit from structuring Thunderbird so that who are currently stuck using other clients the profile folder is completely independent of where or how it's installed. The user should be able choice to simply copy his/her profile folder from one computer move to the next and voilaThunderbird. To keep this trim, it might even These should be desirable very useful to keep extension and theme data in a separate folder, which likewise would ideally be completely portablebroad range of users who rely on Thunderbird.
== Mail file structure ==<hr />I agree, the feature that keeps me using kmail is the ability to use a filterto pipe a message to a program (script). I believe that using a pipe is oftenmore useful than the "command line" approace in <i>Launch Application</i> above.
== Message Filters should have sortable views ==
Is one large file for each mail folder really the most efficient way Problem: If you have a great number of message filters it is a '''VERY''' hard to track down a filter if you want to go? Almost every major problem update it (I've had or heard about with Thunderbird comes from some kind of corruption or other problem with these files, which can get huge. Plus, this structure necessitates all kinds of other things like file compaction, attachment stripping, etc. The profile folder is confusing with contentshave over 200 -less folders, summary files, duplicate file structures for individual accounts covering mailing lists and global folders, etc. I would love work contacts - each message is sent to see this smoothed out and streamlined.its own folder)
== Strip attachments enhancements ==1) It would be very nice if the filter sort view option was restored (it was removed a while back)
The ability to strip an attachment from 2) Add a message is great, but could be improved: (1) search option to automatically strip attachments from messages as they're saved in the Sent folder, (2) filter that can strip attachments from all messages in for those of us with a specified folderlarge number of filters
== Address Book Features ==3) Allow the actions of filters to be nested
I would like to have the 4) Create/Edit filter option when dragging a message to "tag" each contact as "primary contact" and have a list of my primary contacts appear on the main window in a cell below the folder structure. From this "primary contact" list along with the complete address book, double clicking a name would create an e-mail. I would like to see multiple selection e.g. single clicking on multiple names would then give the option to add those selected contacts in the cc or bcc fields.
== Address Book Option: HTML Mails ==-----I would just like to reiterate this contributor's plea. I've been ALL OVER the Mozilla site trying to find out how to do this, and it surprises me that such sorting isn't available yet. I migrated from Netscape, where it was possible to sort filters by name. I don't have the technical prowess to suggest the "how" but I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing for the improvement. Thanks.
In Thunderbird there is a setting how to react when a HTML mail is to be send to a recipient who does not wish to receive HTML formatted mail (settable by the "Recipient refuses HTML"-popup-menu). However, if the according setting in the addressbook is left at the default value 'unknown HTML preference' Thunderbird automatically assumes that the recipient refuses to get HTML-Mails. I propose to add a setting where one can choose if 'unknown' means 'recipient refuses HTML mail' or 'recipient accepts HTML mail'. This setting could be accessed by a checkmark in the settings dialog besides the "Recipient refuses HTML"-popup-menu.==Drag&Drop surface for creating filter rules from adressbook==
== Multiple Install Instances There should be a graphical possibility to create simple filter rules:A window with (vertical) split view: the adressbook on the left, the mail folders on the right. Then simple mail filters (move mail to folder, if adress matches) can be created by dragging single / multiple adresses or adress lists from the adressbook onto the folder, where the according mails should be moved to.A dialog window should warn in case of Thunderbird ==collisions (e.g. mails from one adress are already moved to another folder).There should be a possibility to view the existing filters, too. This information could be displayed e.g. on mouse-over or the folder could be expanded/collapsed (+/- button) to view the assigned mail adresses.
One of the features I've most enjoyed about my long time client, Eudora, was the ability to install and run multiple instances of the program, if you so choose. This has allowed me to keep my various business accounts completely separate from my various personal accounts. If I want to access my business e-mail-[[User:Clemente|Clemente]] 16:09, I simply open that instance of Eudora. No configuring of multiple logons, servers, etc. Simply open one program for one e-mail account2. May 2006 (MEST)
It also greatly simplifies the backing up of my e-mail, complete with all settings and customizations, since you simply back up the entire folder - without the need to search for additional parts and pieces. == Email notification sounds ==
Qualcomm has stated that they are releasing Eudora to I second the suggestion above for*Add custom sound files as a selectable action in the open source community, and I've read filters. So that the Thunderbird team will be taking rules can trigger a crack at it, either incorporating features of Eudora into Tbird, or visa versadifferent wav file for each sender. If any Eudora feature makes it into Tbird, I hope this The closest thing currently available is the onea [https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2085/ randomizer]. And, if any features are going to be removed from Eudora-[[User:Monkey1|Monkey1]] 00:51, please leave this one.26 May 2006 (PDT)
I use Tbird at work, as I only have == Permit the one account to contend with there. But, at home, where I shuffle a minimum dumping/filtering of six accounts at all times, I still use Eudora, simply for the reason noted above. Otherwise, liking the feature set and functionality of Tbird immensely, I likely would have already switched.non-text email ==
== Password Protect Message Panes Upon Bootup ==Add a filter that would strip (and delete) the html copy of a message when both text and html versions are included. And, when no text version is provided, convert the html version to pure text by stripping the html tags and retaining the resulting text as the body of the message. Selecting only the first and filtering when the resulting message is null would eliminate html-only messages.
==Filter enchancement: execution after reading==Filters for inbox are executing after receiving. In my office where TB runs permanently and I'm not always front of my screen, I miss some mails becausethey are already filtered and moved to the defined folder. This follows into to lost the message in the way, that I can not react just-in-time. It would be nice better, if there was an option to prohibit access to Thunderbird when I can define for '''some''' of the filters that it is booted unless a password is entered. This would shall be helpful in case there were confidential information stored executed in email messages on inbox '''after''' reading the hard drivemessage.--[[User:Celald|Celald]] 02:54, 26 October 2006 (PDT)
