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Thunderbird changes and new important features

tomoam2
Making moves

Please make changes and add new important features:

1. "Allow antivirus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages" should be enabled by default in new istallations or TB should ask to enable after update. Why? Most users have got AV software and Inbox in quarantine is a nightmare.

2. TB should check for MBOX files size and warn user if files are to large. User should be able to set warning size, default at about 30-50GB. TB should offer to archive old emails and let user to set schedule task (task with options "how often", "how old", "how large archive file"). Example: I know users with 30-80GB Inbox files (yearly), those users have to manual archive emails... split archive process because disk/ram/cpu limit.

3. TB should check disk free space size on partition with MBOX files. Many times user can't compact/repair MBOX folder because of disk free space. TB should prevent this situation by suggesting to archive emails.

4. Remove duplicates should be implemented in TB.

5. TB should check disk free space and total ram size to warn user against a drop in mailbox performance. At working with big MBOX files I noticed that TB is using 16? 32?GB of ram... and can't compact MBOX if disk doesn't have at least twice as much free space.

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JasonF
Making moves

Your idea of size reduction goes right along with other ideas to archive to other locations.  I wish I had the programming skills to help because it seems like this has been an idea for years. Maybe an admin could merge all these ideas into one so it would be able to gain enough traction to get implemented.  Unfortunately, by the amount of kudos these ideas have received it seems like people are not interested in reducing their profile or mbox size (or even the performance gain that would give Thunderbird).

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-to-different-disc/idi-p/16280

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-mails/idi-p/31513

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archives-stored-on-nas-or-other-drive-on-demand-accessible/idi-...

 

tomoam2
Making moves

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