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I love Thunderbird. I have been switching people to it for a while but one issue that keeps coming up is it does not sync with PDA units (Black Berry or Palm). I wish someone could come up with a sync plugin to use. Other then that keep up the great work. --Matee Moshkovits 22:42, 28 August 2008 (EST)

For me to switch to using Thunderbird I simply need better control of the sending and receiving processes. I have many email accounts so I need to be able to see what accounts are processed and the processing progress per account. Then to be able to stop processing or/and choose a specific account to process. --Ivankb 10:58, 26 July 2008 (GMT)

One feature I miss from Thunderbird that is in other mail programs like alpine is to be able to extract RFC822 mail attachments and refile to another folder (or even just by default to the current folder). Mail forwarded as an attachment preserves all the headers of the original mail. --Greenpossum 08:18, 5 June 2008 (PDT)

One simple request Please use a better spell check dictionary. Very often the suggested words that come up are just bizarre! Please run the betas past someone who can spell. I happen to be dyslexic so have extreme problems leading to enough frustration to seriously think about Outlook. The dictionary from Open Office looks like it would be a big help and aren't a bunch of you the same guys doing that work? This is my biggest software wish on my whole computer. Please!

Please add filter actions that relate to the Address Book, e.g.: Add Sender to Address Book and include in a certain group, Remove Sender from Address Book, Redirect Message to a person or group from the Address Book, and send a fixed message to a person or group from the Address Book.

For Mac Thunderbird, pease add the ability to import from Apple mail! (Or, I should say, the ability to import easily. There is a clunky workaround that isn't really practical if you have a lot of mailboxes.) I suspect that adding an automated process to import from Mail would be the single most effective step you could take to increase adoption of Thunderbird by Mac users. --Jacobw 04:14, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

It would be great (and hopefully simple to add) if we could have filter/view options that supported "is blank/empty" or "is not blank/empty." That way it would be easy to create a filter to show all untagged messages for instance. --Chrisbryant 12:30, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

I use Thunderbird on LTSP thin clients over remote X11. We see some significant issues (difficult to pin down as specific bugs) that appear to be caused by threading races. Problems include:

- IMAP backend becoming nonresponsive. Doesn't quit with tbird. Only responds to SIGKILL. - Attachments being truncated on save

so I suspect some investigation into tbird's threading and locking might be warranted for 3.0 .

--Ringerc 01:05, 17 June 2008 (PDT)

I would find useful to have the possibility to make a selective autoquotation when replying: I select the wanted part and i click on reply to get the selected text automaticaly quoted in the reply

as a user of a lot of yahoo mailing list I would like also a "reply to the sender only" button to reply privately to the sender (the from email, not the reply-to or the sender adress for exemple:

From: "thierry2" <xxxx@orange.fr> Sender: planet-soaring@yahoogroupes.fr Reply-To: planet-soaring@yahoogroupes.fr--Jfpion 23:48, 11 July 2008 (PDT)

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Since this groundbreaking contribution by Thomas Landauer is still valid (and probably will be, even for Thunderbird v4), I'd like to point everybody's - especially the developers' - attention to it.

--David.P 07:26, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

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