Firefox Translations in Thunderbird

[nose_gnome]

It would be great if #Thunderbird added support for the Firefox Translations add-on

The add-on could allow you to translate received emails you're viewing via a click of a button, or even translate an email you're writing into another language before sending.

[roselyne]

en effet cela manque beaucoup

indeed it misses a lot

[Pretzel4Life]

I need this; please add it.

[roselyne]

La possibilité d'avoir un accès dans votre application pour traduire les messages étrangers dans la langue de la personne qui le reçoit, exemple anglais en français, serait très utile.

Merci d'avance 

The possibility of having access in your application to translate foreign messages into the language of the person receiving it, for example English into French, would be very useful.

Thanks in advance

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[destfox]

There are very few addons on Thunderbird that allow the translation of emails and all of these, due to permission problems, can only open a separate window to show the translation of the text.

An integrated translator that allows you to maintain the formatting of emails while translating the text content would be an incredible step forward for software productivity.
If the same translator could also be integrated into the composition it would be even more useful.

[TTh]

I am still waiting for the translation feature within the email. Please let me know incase the development team has given up on that feature. I would need to move to another email client, since living in Japan and receiving lots of emails in Japanese, I do not want to miss that kind of best practice feature for any email client forever.

[Edmondena]

Dear community,

I'd highly require and support this feature using firefox offline translations. For this to realize, I suggest the following workaround as starting point, e.g. for realizing a macro likely or on base of ThunderbirdObsidianClipper.

Using Linux Mint works with the following, but probably on many other OSs too...

1st (in Thunderbird): - Mark text to translate (not select all!), right click, save as, create&select directory (e.g. documents/offline_translate/), remove ".eml" in suggested filename.

2nd (in Filebrowser): go to directory above, select original test file, right click, open with Firefox

Voilà: Text is opened and offline translated inline.

Thank you all very much for your great support and to help us with this email offline traslation plugin!

[destfox]

I obviously hope that this integration can be achieved as soon as possible, but in the meantime I suggest the good KDE Crow Translate application, which allows you to quickly translate selected text by opening it in a separate floatable window. https://apps.kde.org/it/crowtranslate/