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Tbird Enhancement Requests
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== Tbird Enhancement Requests == | |||
Hi, | |||
I have taken some time to acquaint myself with the new version of Tbird and am writing to request a few enhancements which will incorporate some features in Eudora which are not yet part of Tbird: | |||
'''a modular structure.''' I incrementally back up my data daily. As I have nearly 4,000 email boxes, if Eudora's email data was in one solid file, that back up would be significantly larger and take much longer to back up. In the event a TOC file is corrupted, it is easy to delete it and Eudora regenerates it. If my Tbird email file became corrupted, that could lead to a disaster of significant proportions. | |||
'''scheduled send.''' The extension which handled this functionality for earlier versions of Tbird has not been updated and the extensions community reports they haven't heard from its developer in a couple of months. Ideally, scheduled send should be built into Tbird anyway, as it is in Eudora. I would request, however, that Tbird store the scheduled messages separately from the draft/unscheduled messages to make it easier to manage them. It would be great to have these also work with the colorful tabs add on! | |||
'''Tabbed view.''' As by now you mostlikely know, Eudora presents mailboxes with new mail, and opened draft items and folders and messages at the bottom of the preview window. This is immeasurably helpful in navigating the new mail. Eudora also provides tabbed views of the personality's mailbox repository, a file browser, signatures, stationary, and personalities. This makes it easy to navigate various product features. I'd love to see this implemented with the colorful tabs add on. | |||
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Window view of folders.''' When one right clicks on a mail item and hovers over an existing folder in Eudora, a window pops up with the mailboxes in that folder. The folder is 7 columns wide. I use that preview as a guide for knowing when to move some of my key tracking data to the next folder. | |||
'''Local Folders.'''I don't understand the purpose of the "local folders". If you have a dominant personality, why aren't those local folders simply created for it. Perhaps this can be done away with or simply defined for each personality going forward. | |||
'''Enhanced Address Book.''' It would be fabulous to have the ability to track birthday and anniversary (by type - wedding, ordination, professed vows, etc)data, as well as IM name by client. Some people I know use all 3 leading clients, and more and more, people are using the jabber/Gmail client. We need to be able to specify which client to use to communicate with someone on. | |||
'''Concurrent Main Dictionaries.''' Latin, UK English and American English would be great if they were concurrent. | |||
'''No email days.''' I had mentioned this in an earlier post and would like to reiterate the need for this feature, and the option to automatically send their missed messages upon their return. | |||
'''Send as New - to New Recipient''' - it would be great to have the addressee areas blank as a send as new option | |||
'''Advanced Filter Management.''' I am using a program called EuFO to manage my Eudora filters. I can organize them by folders, and easily arrange the order of those folders within the Eudora filters. This little program has enabled me to easily identify duplicate and out of date filters, and easily manage the order my filters are processed. With nearly 300 filters, I'd be beside myself trying to manage them manually. It would be great if Tbird included a filter management area where filters could be organized by folder in tabs (colored, or course!) | |||
'''Send Personally.''' As most of my emails go out to large groups of people, I would love the ability to click a button to have Tbird send those messages with a little text inserted at the top such as Dear Joan...etc. MapiLabs makes such a tool for Outlook, but I haven't seen anything like this for Tbird. | |||
I have installed an extension to enable attachment detachment, but as with the modular approach to the mailboxes, it is far preferable to have this feature integrated in the core program. | |||
'''Change received message priority.''' In Eudora, on can right click on a message, or click an icon on the tool bar to change the priority of a message. I have found this very useful in managing messages I want to be sure to keep. There is currently an extension to do this but the icon and label take up a huge amount of space on the toolbar. | |||
Many thanks in advance! | |||
Sue Cifelli | |||