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I'd like to see an option to connect an account identity to an address book so that automatically entered addresses go to specific address books rather than just the address book that is open. | I'd like to see an option to connect an account identity to an address book so that automatically entered addresses go to specific address books rather than just the address book that is open. | ||
I have hundreds of business contacts and one thing I miss from Outlook, or for that matter Evolution is the ability to insert the contact's picture. | |||
== Outlook Express Import == | == Outlook Express Import == | ||
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I can have a signature for French e-mails and another for English ones, | I can have a signature for French e-mails and another for English ones, | ||
one for mailing lists (or one per mailing list!), one for personal messages and one for professional ones, etc. [[User:PhiLho|PhiLho]] 03:50, 13 July 2006 (PDT) | one for mailing lists (or one per mailing list!), one for personal messages and one for professional ones, etc. [[User:PhiLho|PhiLho]] 03:50, 13 July 2006 (PDT) | ||
One for replying to a message would be a benefit. | |||
== Folder Personalization and Control == | == Folder Personalization and Control == | ||
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A new Funambol plugin has been added to Sourceforge.net. This is the Mozilla Addressbook synchronizer, which enable Mozilla users to synchronize contacts between Mozilla Thunderbird and the Funambol server. This is the first Alpha version, and works with Thunderbird 1.5.0.* on Windows platform only, Linux version will be available soon... You can find the Mozilla plugin here:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/sync4jmozilla/ Funambol Plugin] | A new Funambol plugin has been added to Sourceforge.net. This is the Mozilla Addressbook synchronizer, which enable Mozilla users to synchronize contacts between Mozilla Thunderbird and the Funambol server. This is the first Alpha version, and works with Thunderbird 1.5.0.* on Windows platform only, Linux version will be available soon... You can find the Mozilla plugin here:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/sync4jmozilla/ Funambol Plugin] | ||
== ScheduleWorld Address Book and Calendar Sharing and Synchronization == | |||
The ScheduleWorld Thunderbird add-on will synchronize the Thunderbird address book. You can also easily share address books with your family and co-workers. If you have Lightning installed you can also sync your calendars and task lists. ScheduleWorld also makes it a snap to sync your data with cell phones, PDAs, or even other people using Outlook or Evolution. | |||
The ScheduleWorld add-on works equally well with Windows, OSX and Linux. | |||
For more information and an easy to use email installation process please visit: | |||
http://wiki.scheduleworld.com/wiki/Thunderbird_Configuration | |||
== Message Filter based on whether or not "To" and "CC" is in an addressbook == | == Message Filter based on whether or not "To" and "CC" is in an addressbook == | ||
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I finally got my attachments and embedded images and tunes under control. I had more than 22,000 of them. I am now using a tool to manage them so no longer need this particular feature. | I finally got my attachments and embedded images and tunes under control. I had more than 22,000 of them. I am now using a tool to manage them so no longer need this particular feature. | ||
What tool can be used to manage attachments? I have a similar need to process email attachments and save them to an archive for extended period of time. It would be helpful if the original email could be archived also, but that a link be embedded to the attachments (i.e. process incoming mail, save attachments, include link in email to location of attachments). | |||
== BCC line in message preview == | == BCC line in message preview == | ||
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Please tell me what you think | Please tell me what you think | ||
I would like to comment on ITEM 2 above. I would like to see a general set of tools that allow archiving of email attachments outside of the email client, with some capability to link the original email message back to the archive folders. As more media is sent via email (and we must archive messages for 3 years), the sizes of inboxes becomes cumbersome. Better to have the ability to strip out content (regardless of type), save the content to an archive drive, then link that content back to the original email. | |||
Does anyone have an extension to perform this? Can an extension be developed (i am not a developer) to satisfy this type of need? | |||
== Crash fix == | == Crash fix == | ||
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Hi, | Hi, | ||
it would be great if | it would be great if Thunderbird prompted for the IM platform in addition to the IM name as it seems to default to AIM. Including Yahoo, Gmail and MSN would be fabulous. | ||
Thanks! | Thanks! | ||
Sue | Sue | ||
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[http://www.openchange.org/ Open Source Exchange Server Alternative] | [http://www.openchange.org/ Open Source Exchange Server Alternative] | ||
== | == Thunderbird Enhancement Requests == | ||
Hi, | Hi, | ||
I have taken some time to acquaint myself with the new version of | I have taken some time to acquaint myself with the new version of Thunderbird and am writing to request a few enhancements which will incorporate some features in Eudora which are not yet part of Thunderbird: | ||
'''a modular structure.''' I incrementally back up my data daily. As I have nearly 4,000 email boxes, if Eudora's email data was in one solid file, that back up would be significantly larger and take much longer to back up. In the event a TOC file is corrupted, it is easy to delete it and Eudora regenerates it. If my | '''a modular structure.''' I incrementally back up my data daily. As I have nearly 4,000 email boxes, if Eudora's email data was in one solid file, that back up would be significantly larger and take much longer to back up. In the event a TOC file is corrupted, it is easy to delete it and Eudora regenerates it. If my Thunderbird email file became corrupted, that could lead to a disaster of significant proportions. | ||
'''scheduled send.''' The extension which handled this functionality for earlier versions of | '''scheduled send.''' The extension which handled this functionality for earlier versions of Thunderbird has not been updated and the extensions community reports they haven't heard from its developer in a couple of months. Ideally, scheduled send should be built into Thunderbird anyway, as it is in Eudora. I would request, however, that Thunderbird store the scheduled messages separately from the draft/unscheduled messages to make it easier to manage them. It would be great to have these also work with the colorful tabs add on! | ||
'''Tabbed view.''' As by now you | '''Tabbed view.''' As by now you most likely know, Eudora presents mailboxes with new mail, and opened draft items and folders and messages at the bottom of the preview window. This is immeasurably helpful in navigating the new mail. Eudora also provides tabbed views of the personality's mailbox repository, a file browser, signatures, stationary, and personalities. This makes it easy to navigate various product features. I'd love to see this implemented with the colorful tabs add on. | ||
''' | ''' | ||
Window view of folders.''' When one right clicks on a mail item and hovers over an existing folder in Eudora, a window pops up with the mailboxes in that folder. The folder is 7 columns wide. I use that preview as a guide for knowing when to move some of my key tracking data to the next folder. | Window view of folders.''' When one right clicks on a mail item and hovers over an existing folder in Eudora, a window pops up with the mailboxes in that folder. The folder is 7 columns wide. I use that preview as a guide for knowing when to move some of my key tracking data to the next folder. | ||
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'''Send as New - to New Recipient''' - it would be great to have the addressee areas blank as a send as new option | '''Send as New - to New Recipient''' - it would be great to have the addressee areas blank as a send as new option | ||
'''Advanced Filter Management.''' I am using a program called EuFO to manage my Eudora filters. I can organize them by folders, and easily arrange the order of those folders within the Eudora filters. This little program has enabled me to easily identify duplicate and out of date filters, and easily manage the order my filters are processed. With nearly 300 filters, I'd be beside myself trying to manage them manually. It would be great if | '''Advanced Filter Management.''' I am using a program called EuFO to manage my Eudora filters. I can organize them by folders, and easily arrange the order of those folders within the Eudora filters. This little program has enabled me to easily identify duplicate and out of date filters, and easily manage the order my filters are processed. With nearly 300 filters, I'd be beside myself trying to manage them manually. It would be great if Thunderbird included a filter management area where filters could be organized by folder in tabs (colored, or course!) | ||
'''Send Personally.''' As most of my emails go out to large groups of people, I would love the ability to click a button to have | '''Send Personally.''' As most of my emails go out to large groups of people, I would love the ability to click a button to have Thunderbird send those messages with a little text inserted at the top such as Dear Joan...etc. MapiLabs makes such a tool for Outlook, but I haven't seen anything like this for Thunderbird. | ||
I have installed an extension to enable attachment detachment, but as with the modular approach to the mailboxes, it is far preferable to have this feature integrated in the core program. | I have installed an extension to enable attachment detachment, but as with the modular approach to the mailboxes, it is far preferable to have this feature integrated in the core program. | ||
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Is this possible? If so, how? If not, can it be done or is it planned? | Is this possible? If so, how? If not, can it be done or is it planned? | ||
== Integration with Web apps - make it easy == | |||
I'd like to see some integration between TB and things like Zoho, Google Docs, Flickr, Picasa, etc. Email is an extremely... bad method of sharing documents or pictures, but it seems like that's how the majority of ours are shared. I'd like to see an easy way to transition people from that to something better. All your documents... even attachments you'd received if you really wanted to, could be kept in a little account called "Docs", with folders and all. They could be viewed in the preview pane, and maybe even edited through composer (with UI that doesn't suck from being hacked together, IE compatible HTML) or by opening a single site browser window? Maybe Google Docs or Zoho could even become a source of revenue for TB. | |||
I've tried doing this through an extension. Either it requires writing a lot of interfaces that weren't meant to be written in JS, or I can't find the ones that should be written, but I wanted it written down somewhere. I'm sick of my boss overflowing my email accounts with 20 meg attachments. I'm sick of not being able to find those documents 6 months later when he asks about them again. | |||
== Reply All: option to include me == | |||
[feature-request] I would like to see (an option for) Reply All to include the recipient of the original message as a recipient of the reply (that is, also send to self, though 'self' may vary depending on the account which the originbal message was sent to). | |||
Rationale: I am one of several people who receive incoming mail to a particular address, which isn't a mailing list as such. When we send a reply we want all recipients of the original message to see it (including an archive recipient). | |||
Secondly, it's not uncommon to want to send yourself a copy of a reply, for example to make sure it ends up in one's gmail archive rather than just in one's local sent items folder). | |||
== Native format change == | |||
[feature request] I would appreciate it if Thunderbird saved all its messages physically as .eml files. The addressbook should also store files in some other format, an XML format (hCard?) or vCard. | |||
Rationale: Recovering from a disaster would be much easier if the individual E-mails and addressbook entries could be copied. It would also make archiving easier: just move them out of the profile folder and burn them onto a CD. | |||
Windows Mail has already proven that for a major mail client this is possible -as well as easy copying between clients. | |||
== Catalog Option == | |||
It would be nice to have as a catalog option the possibility to include email adresses in it with the options: 'to:', 'cc:', 'bcc:'. | |||
== To-Do List == | |||
I think it would be a great idea if Thuderbird implements a quick to-do list like some of the other major email applications have recently done. They can be quite helpful. | |||
== iCal == | |||
Would there be any possibility to have the mac version of Thunderbird add events to iCal? | |||
== Global Inbox == | |||
It would be great to have a global inbox, containing all your e-mails from all your (selected) email accounts. Same goes for a outbox and junk folder. | |||
== Webservices integration == | |||
The reason thunderbird is decreasing in popularity is the trend of upcoming webservices. The trick there is that all your data is available on every pc with internet. | |||
An idea would be to create some sort of online storage so people can use thunderbird on every pc to acces their own 'thunderbird account'. | |||
Furthermore thunderbird needs better integration with webservices. It would be great if thunderbird would get your flickr photo's in a window, the user chooses a photo of choice and it is integrated in the email in just 1 click. Automatic calendar and adress book sync with Google or any other service is becoming a must as these services become more important. People want to have everything, everywhere. | |||
== A Notice Field in: Menue>Accounts == | |||
would be a great feature if there could be a field in Menue > Accounts, where you can type in a note (on standard identity??), for expl.: This account will be fowarded to my office computer. Or: This account is only in use on this computer. Or: There is something wrong with the smtp server password.... | |||
I have 5 computers running an i must say, sometimes i lose my overview. | |||
what do you mean? | |||