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→Step 1: Combined Sender/Receiver Column
[[Image:CombinedToFromColumn.gif|Screenshot: Combined To/From-Column]]
'''Proposed Improvement:''' Combine the sender and receiver columns to one "sender/receiverwho" 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.).
This step is, by and large, resolved with the extension [http://www.ggbs.de/extensions/ShowInOut.html Show InOut]. So my suggestion is to include this extension's functionality into Thunderbird and set it as the default behavior.