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The feature for dragging files from Thunderbird to third-party applications is very lacking. For example, I received a PDF document and I want to send it to my contact via Telegram. Now I have to save this document on my hard drive and then attach it to Telegram. It's inconvenient. Many applications allow you to simply drag and drop documents without unnecessary saving and loading operations. Please consider the possibility of implementing such a feature in your beautiful product. ... View more

How can I make Thunderbird start automatically with Windows and go directly to the system tray, without its main window appearing first? I want it to launch silently in the background on startup. ... View more

It would be helpful to receive notification sounds from the Thunderbird mobile app if emails are received from a pre-defined list of "favorite" contacts. Otherwise no sound. Extra credit for being able to specify unique sounds per "favorite" contact. ... View more

It is possible to know that an email was received by the addressee.  It would also be nice to know if it has been read.  I know that function is often decided by the reader, but it would be great if it were to be possible should the reader choose to acknowledge reading the message. ... View more

For people that manage huge mailboxes, for example in my case with server logs sent very frequently, the synchronous behavior of filters at load makes it very slow to launch. I think Thunderbird developers could make the GUI and first requests load synchronously, but dispatching the filters to an asynchronous task may lead to better loading time. ... View more

Thunderbird shall allow users to authenticate with passkeys (FIDO2/WebAuthn) as an alternative to traditional password‑based login for all supported email accounts (Google and Microsoft for example).  ... View more

For people who work by night. Would it be possible to have an option to make two days events (basically a work days that starts j and finishes j+1) only appear on day J in month view? For people working night shifts, seeing every shift planned on the month appear on 2 days makes a total mess in the month view. It's near impossible to safely read the planning and not making errors. Actually i'm sadly stuck with Google agenda, it's the only one i know who supports this feature. ... View more

I love the new toggle dark theme off for email content! I would love a whitelist for this. So if you toggle it, Thunderbird asks if you'd always like to use light mode for this sender ... View more

Hello, Loving the RSS and filter support in thunderbird and was wishing to get more items in feed. However not all websites have RSS so these features will be useful: 1. Ability to add RSS feed items based on HTML XPATH (Similar to FreshRSS, see here) 2. Ability to add RSS feed items based on JSON dotted path since most APIs use JSON (Similar to FreshRSS again, see here) 3. Ability to add RSS based on std output of scripts (Similar to RSSGaurd and Liferea) These options would effectively cover all manners of adding a non-RSS-supporting website into feed reader. ... View more

I've been sprooking this idea for some time. But it always seems to have fallen on deaf ears. In my travels recently I even bumped into an old thread from the enigmail mailing list. Having discussed this very concept... for 20 years. The crux of which is. If in the event of an email which is unsigned or has an invalid signature. Thunderbird could simply redirect that mail to a different folder. i.e. "Unsolicited". People would still automatically know where to look for their password reset emails. Wisely sent, in plaintext; by every company in the world. Thus It would be highly effective in blocking spam email, while not adversely effecting anything else. In due course all the other convoluted and largely ineffective spam mitigation strategies could probably be deprecated. It pains me to point out that the future of Thunderbird. Is inherently tied to the future of E-Mail as a usable form of communication. I suspect the great exodus of people who moved away from email as a form of daily communication. Very likely is attributable to email spam. But now peoples phones are absolutely swamped with scam calls and texts. If we have a method to deal with the situation properly. I really think we will quite probably win a lot of people back. 🙂 Most importantly, and highly relevant to the current situation regarding the provision of government ID. Just to use essentially any service on the internet. PGP by FAR provides the better option vis-à-vis proving identity. Without providing my drivers license to foreign corporate entities. Which have dis-earned my trust definitively. ... View more

Description 🚀Thunderbird could become the first spam- and phishing-free inbox: Support the idea 👉 Mozilla Connect + Bug 1984618 Ceterum censeo SPAM et PHISHING esse delendam. The idea is simple: an optional mode where only RFC-compliant, authenticated emails (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) are automatically delivered to the inbox. All others go to a Quarantine folder with clear reasons/badges and optional sender feedback. This would make Thunderbird the first major email client with a truly spam- and phishing-free inbox. 👉Please vote and share your thoughts so we can move this forward together! ... View more

It looks as if this would be a simple change, bringing Thunderbird into conformity with other programs that allow selection and pasting of multiple images into the body of the email or file at the same time. ... View more

Summary Increase Thunderbird's versatility as a messaging client by 5-10x by adopting the existing FOSS cross-platform messaging-app connector libpurple    Why? Thunderbird is more than an email/calendar/address book client. It also does chat over XMPP and Matrix (plus some proprietary systems.) It can't talk to the ones I mainly need, though: Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Slack, Telegram, Discord. One FOSS tool can do this: Pidgin. https://pidgin.im/ Pidgin talks to all these services over Libpurple. https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple This is FOSS, and it already runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and the BSDs. There is a precedent -- there was a Mozilla based libpurple client once, called Instantbird: http://instantbird.com/ Pidgin 3 is in development now, but it has been for a long time (10Y+). It brings a new Libpurple version so for now this is a slow-moving target that is in maintenance mode. It would be much more memory-efficient than having web browser tabs open for all these services. I currently use Ferdium to keep all these in one app but it takes a lot of memory. https://ferdium.org/     ... View more

A very useful feature could be the ability to invert the highlighted uppercase/lowercase characters (context menu): it often happens to me that I write, write, and then realize the error, and am forced to open OpenOffice to perform the conversion... ... View more

I normally have my emails shown in card view sorted by date and in descending view so that newest emails are at the top. If I sort by something else, like Sender and then sort back to Date, Thunderbird defaults to ascending view and I always have to open sort again (because it closes once you choose date) and then select descending.  My suggestion is either have Thunderbird sort stay open so both sort type and sort order can be chosen (use an OK button or similar), or have Thunderbird retain the ascending/descending preference unchanged.   ... View more

I often want to save attachments in a specific location, but then also look at them. I’d love to have an accessible way to open the attachment I just saved, like in Firefox’s download menu or the pop-up Element offers. Currently, I need to navigate the whole path twice, once in Thunderbird’s save dialogue, and then again in my file manager. ... View more

Description: I frequently use message labeling with tags in Thunderbird. Currently, when I apply a tag to a message, the tag selection window closes immediately. This makes workflows with multiple tag changes less efficient. Use case: Suppose I have a message tagged as “To Do”. When the task is completed, I want to: Add the tag “Done” Remove the tag “To Do” At present, this requires opening the tag selection window twice – once to add “Done” and once again to remove “To Do”. Suggestion: Please consider adding an option that allows the tag selection window to remain open after selecting a tag, so multiple tag changes can be made in one step. Thank you. ... View more

Please reverse the REMINDER PANEL column order to Improve Usability:  NOW:  "Event description" (_BIG_ whitespace) "Event Date Time"  SUGGEST:  "Event Date Time" (small whitespace) "Event description"  WHY:  "Event Date Time" is fixed-length (short)  "Event description" is variable-length (longer)  The suggested column order  brings the "Event Date Time"  closer to the "Event description"  and INCREASES READABILITY.  Thank you, -Mike Ramey ... View more

Would it be possible to change the text color of the email instead of just adding the tag. It is so far to the right and doesn't make the text stand out when looking for it again. ... View more