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|Feature non-goals=* Turn Thunderbird into an IM client for people who don't want to use it for their emails.
|Feature non-goals=* Turn Thunderbird into an IM client for people who don't want to use it for their emails.
* Support as many IM protocols as possible: For a first version with IM features included, we want to focus first on a good UI integration between email and IM features. Support for more protocols can come later.
* Support as many IM protocols as possible: For a first version with IM features included, we want to focus first on a good UI integration between email and IM features. Support for more protocols can come later.
|Feature functional spec=IM networks/protocol support
|Feature functional spec=(at this point the content of this section is a draft, still open to discussion)
 
IM networks/protocol support
* Thunderbird will support by default only a few IM protocols
* Thunderbird will support by default only a few IM protocols
** XMPP is a good first candidate:
** XMPP is a good first candidate:
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* Stored conversations should be indexed in a way that makes searching both the email and IM archives at once efficient.
* Stored conversations should be indexed in a way that makes searching both the email and IM archives at once efficient.
* The search results should show IMs alongside emails.
* The search results should show IMs alongside emails.
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