Some things I'd like to see in Thunderbird (after trying to get my mother to move over from OE):
- Improve inline forwarding of e-mails: either allow a "quoted" style (as Evolution does), (bug 104604) or reduce the quantity of message header cruft placed in the message text (e.g. bug 244432).
- Improve printing of e-mails. Again, reduce the message header cruft that is included with printouts. Mom prints a lot of e-mails for Dad (who won't touch the computer himself), and gets frustrated by a 10-line message printing out on 2 pages because the printout includes cruft such as every server that received the message as it transited the net.
- Improve layout for printing addressbook. A 4 page address book imported from OE prints out as 17 pages in TB.
Overall, great work guys, but it still needs some work for the techno-challenged like my mom (who are arguably the ones in most need of a solid, secure e-mail app).
Plain text messages - word wrap guide
I hardly ever send html mail, I use plain text.
I have a problem when creating the message - I sometimes write lines longer than the wrap limit - which results in horrible formatting when a message gets sent.
Would it be possible to have a visual indicator for the wrap limit when editing messages? (Netscape Communicator v4 used to do this).
- Rather than a visual indicator of the wrap limit, I'd like to see a visual indicator of where I've actually typed Enter (bug 232750). If these little thingies kept popping up in the display, people would learn to not type Enter in the middle of a paragraph, and these sorts of formatting problems would be solved. --mcow 12:34, 12 Mar 2005 (PST)