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The inability to import to Thunderbird existing message structures of current users of Microsoft e-mail products (i.e., all the messages contained in message folders and sub-folders of Outlook Express, Outlook, and Windows Mail) drastically limits migration to Thunderbird. After all, the millions of typical users out there are likely to have built up an extensive structure of folders to organize their messages. The current alternative of first replicating an entire message folder structure in Thunderbird and then separately importing the messages for that folder using the extension ImportExportTools -- in my case (yes, I have a vested interest in this issue!) over a hundred times! -- is clearly impractical. I contacted the creater of the extension ImportExportTools, Paolo Kaosmos, about this issue. He has no plans to address the issue.
I like Tbird so far but have two problems that appear to be bugs. I'm using the Penelope extension and MagicSLR. 1. The "priority" column priority marks seem to be invisible. The priorities are there, I can sort by priority, but I can't SEE that priority. 2. I don't want to see all columns in folders, and I found the control that lets me remove columns. But my choice doesn't persist -- next time I fire up tbird, all the columns are back. --Billcoffin 17:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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)
- IMAP problem here also. It has been configured to take mails always when Thunderbird has been started up. Takes 100% from processor and frontend is unresponsive, only SIGKILL stops wasting processor time. Same IMAP settings worked earlier. Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 didn't done any magic.
--PC-Räätäli 27 November 2008
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)
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)
A few minor problems. When I attempt to see new messages, I get a report that 'the requested message could not be converted to an RFC-882 compatible format', and then the messages are opened. When I attempt to delete a message, the system tells me the same thing, but dragging messages to 'trash' seems to do the job. A set of good instructions is needed.
Re: To improve usability Message List. It would be nice to have a "delete message" column in the message list. The "junk status" column is a nice feature for marking and deleting spam. It is convenient. But I find that I have to stop myself from clicking it to delete an unwanted, but non-spam email. I don't want to mess up the bayesian training, so I need to use the keyboard or the delete icon up top. So a delete column would be nice.
I would like an option to have the message list "tail" as new emails arrive, rather than requiring me to manually scroll down.
Multiple email accounts. I can already choose alternate Sent, Drafts, and Templates folders. Let me choose alternate Junk and Trash folders too. I can already choose to send mail to the inbox of another account. Let me choose to use a subfolder of the other inbox. An option to auto expand folders with new or unread emails. If an inbox filter has sent a new email to a subfolder, it is a hassle to have to expand the folders to expose it. Message Body as HTML vs text. Allow HTML vs text on a per account basis, rather than a application wide setting. A Filter for "arrived through account". If one inbox with subfolders is used for multiple accounts, incoming bcc messages are hard to handle. It would be nice to be able to add a filter for incoming account X = filter action. But this would not be needed, if an account inbox could be set to a subfolder of another inbox. Simpson 19:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Improve Graphic user interface of email client by introducing Tab navigation. Tab Navigation groups together the similar functions of the email client (such as compose and draft) to improve productivity and reduce visual pollution on-screen. As well as this allows for the ‘flowing’ of buttons in relating to current Tab navigation group (Figure 2). Tab Navigation can be both vertical (on the left) and horizontal (along the top).
ActiveRead (Figure 2)allows more message details to be displayed in the inbox. How much of the message is displayed is dependent on the user but essentially whole message previews are possible.
Figure 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34337875@N02/3194799979/ Figure 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34337875@N02/3195722740/