Thunderbird:Thunderbird 3 Possible Enhancements: Difference between revisions

= SMTP (Outgoing Server) robustness =

When moving a notebook between home and work, sending email requires a SMTP change due to ISP's requiring the use of their own SMTP servers.

So if you use Thunderbird at work you have to change your SMTP server to that of the company's DSL ISP. When getting home, you have to change it to that of your 3G ISP.

Suggestions:

- Thunderbird 3/4 should be able to determine which SMTP to use by sensing the network according to user specified data.

- The user should be able to quickly access the SMTP selections from the "Compose a new message" window. Then after changing the SMTP server here it should remain changed for all accounts until changed again.

- Thunderbird could attempt sending via a certain SMTP server, then, upon failure it should try the next server in the SMTP list. When a mail has been successfully sent via a certain outgoing server, that server should be set to be the current outgoing server for all accounts.

- How about a drop down property (like the "From" address) that selects the current outgoing SMTP server to use, for that email? By default it would follow some simple assumption. For example if the FROM is set to fred@someplace.com, then it would guess that given the SMTP server with "someplace.com" as a domain is the place to send that email.