Thunderbird:Collected User Requests
Some of these are moved from various discussion pages in the Calendar wiki.
Ability for filters to suppress or modify the new message alert
I would like the ability to make a filter saying, in effect, "when a new message matches, move it to folder X and do *not* play the sound or display the alert you normally would." This is because often these filters are meant to get messages from high-traffic mailing lists out of the way, to be perused later. It is distracting to have the sound/alert take place for each of them.
A natural extension of this idea is to let filters specify a special sound to be played when matching messages arrive ("email from boss!" or somesuch).
CSS for HTML message compose
Composing HTML mail using tags scattered thru the text is just plain awful. The preferred font is easily lost, overridden by the system default; there is no styling applied to quotes, reply headers or sigs. The infrastructure for CSS-based editing is already in place. I guess there needs to be a fix so that the HTML compose preferences are translated into CSS rather than attributes -- and maybe some additional UI for a couple of additional prefs...?
As part of this feature, the message editor needs to (a) allow user to specify a stylesheet and (b) edit the HTML source (<head> as well as <body>).
Eudora has this and it's the one thing I miss now using Thunderbird; customized (or no) sound based on sender.
Ability to import and export message filters
Thunderbird can´t import or export message filters yet. This was requested in Bug 166842.
LDAP write & IMAP ACL capability
A very important feature that the Mozilla family lacks is write mode LDAP access. Evolution has it and makes creating a shared address book extremely easy. Another gaping hole is lack of ACL manipulation from the GUI.
These two features alone would make workgroup mail management a reality for Mozilla. In any case they are both completions to already present features: LDAP read access is already present and so does IMAP folder ACL parsing (accessible from a tab in the properties context menu of an IMAP folder.
Before attacking calendaring I'd finish off what's half done.
Thunderbird-Sunbird/Lightning for Pocket PC
One of the features I miss the most, when using Thunderbird/Sunbird, is the ability to synchronize my calendar and contacts to my Ipaq running pocket PC 2003. Are you going to develop a Pocket PC port of Lightning (Thunderbird/Sunbird)?
Palm Sync & Pocket PC
I don't really see Thunderbird as a replacement for Outlook, but rather for Outlook Express - so all I need to be able to sync is the in/out boxes and the contacts database. Adam
The folks over at Sync4j (http://www.sync4j.org ) have an open source product that they say could be used to develop a sync program between Thunderbird and Pocket PC. All they need is some volunteers to help write it. Not being a programmer, all I can do is test it. Does anyone want to have a go at it? Michael
A (hopefully easy) partial temporary solution is for Thunderbird to dynamically export newest emails to a folder. My pocket PC's "my documents" folder syncs with a corresponding folder on my laptop, so if Thunderbird had this feature it could serve as a decent work-around to at least have my emails on-the-go. This way, I wouldn't have to regularly open Outlook except for when I need to access backups of contacts/calendar for my pocket PC. Eugene
WikiSyntax rendering
This is definitely _the_ place to demand for this feature: Make Thunderbird render WikiMarkup in the style of the Mediawiki syntax definition. (maybe just get the rendering sourcecode out of Mediawiki if that's possible) Maybe let the user toggle if Thunderbird should try to detect WikiMarkup automagically or not. --That would be a wonderful feature and we won't have to think if we're wiki-ing or writing an email :) eric.
Better indication when message is high/low priority
Right now there is no easy way of marking a message high or low priority. Not to mention that when I am composing a message and mark it high or low that there is no visual indication in the composition window (OE does do this for example.) It says that "this message is marked high importance" right above the To: and it has a yellow background.
Better signature management
Right now Thunderbird depends on a third party file for a signature. This can only lead to trouble in the future (for example a malicious signature that can be attached as a html file.)
Thunderbird should allow us to compose our own signature in Thunderbird. (bug 219197) Not to mention have a different signature for new emails and/or replying to emails, like Outlook has. (bug 73567, bug 226120)
Position cursor as user has requested when replying
Even when an user requests to reply above the message they are replying to, very often Thunderbird brings the user to start composing under the message. This is annoying and should be fixed.
- If you actually are seeing a problem with this, it probably has to do with replying to message sent to an identity that hasn't been configured for Put My Reply Above Quote. If you can prove a counterexample, then you should open a bug for this in Bugzilla. --mcow 12:08, 12 Mar 2005 (PST)
Related to the above is a feature request I just wrote to MozillaZine about dynamically determining the correct answering order (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1399996). VilleP 10:12, 19 Apr 2005 (PDT)
Store Option settings in the user profile
It looks like every time Thunderbird is reinstalled, all the settings under Tools->Options... are lost. They should be saved in the user profile, together with the mail account settings and mail messages.
Features from GMail
There are several features from GMail I would like to see incorporated into Thunderbird, primarily Conversations and Labels.
- I 2nd the labels (a.k.a. "tags")! Is this filed as a feature request? Dfrankow 18:07, 8 Dec 2005 (PST)
Combine and Decode
There is a feature in outlook express I simply cannot live without. It allows you to combine several usenet postings into one "virtual post" and then decode any binaries that may be contained within. Often posters who post binary files will break up the binary file accords several posts got get past may possible post size restrictions. Please add this feature so I may finally put Outlook Express to rest; pernamently.
Support for yEnc
Please add support for yEnc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenc). Despite its flaws the use of yEnc only continues to increase amongst binary groups.