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I make extended usage of saved search folders because I need to manage 3 (soon, 4) accounts with complex tree structure. These saved folders often share the same target folders, but differ for a little detail (i.e. a saved search folder shows the email I have received in the last 24 hours in selected folders, I would like to make another saved search folder which shows the email received in the last 7 days in the same folders). It would be extremely helpful for me to have a "Duplicate" function for saved search folders, in order to make only the small adjustments I need (change the period back in time) and not be forced to make again extensive work (select all the target folders again). ... View more

Thunderbird has a somewhat hidden 'Saved Files/Download ' tab, which you can access via Tools menu or Ctrl J. I think it is a very useful feature - especially in the context of Thunderbird as a desktop application. It would be useful if this tab was always open, or you could add a shortcut button (I could not find one) Also, in the file listing interface, perhaps the location of the files and the 'open containing folder' shortcut were made more prominent. (There is a lot of horizontal space available) (the problem - perhaps you save an attachment, then cannot remember which folder tree it was put in)   Perhaps saved attachments can be linked- to from their original message too. (imagine this is more tricky to achieve) ... View more

It is possible to display the name of folder in which a given message lies by selecting the table view, selecting the Location column and hover over the location. It would be useful to have the location indicated in the  standard view, for instance near the date, on the right of the header. ... View more

I use Baikal with Thunderbird (Win11) and aCalender+ (Android; with Davx5). I create my tasks with aCalender+. There it's only possible to set a due date. When I filter these tasks to show e.g. all of the tasks from next week it displays all tasks because all tasks has no start date (which generally makes sense). But in my case this means I have to add all the Start-days for all of my tasks. Therefore it would be great if there could be added a possibility to use the Start-date instead of the Due-date for filtering for "today, next 7 days, etc. Another possibility would be to automatically fill out the start date with the due date when there is no start date. ... View more

Please provide a setting that allows a default choice for the Address Book's display name of "Last, First" or "First Last" when a new contact is added. The current default is "Last, First" and I can not find a way to change that ordering. I have to manually edit to "First Last" every time I add a contact. ... View more

I would like to have a category in the Thunderbird Address Book where I use "Mobile" as a phone number label. Thunderbird has a "Cell" label, but that is not compatible with Google Contacts. Please either provide an additional label or a setting to use "Cell" or "Mobile". ... View more

Please stop displaying messages about automatic folder compacting unless there is a real error. A delay in compacting is not an error. There is no reason the user needs to know about this. It does not affect them. Nevertheless, TB interrupts whatever the user is doing by popping to the top of the screen and telling them something they don't need to know. Please stop doing that. ... View more

Hello, First of all, thank you for the excellent software. I have a lot of folders and subfolders in my mailbox. Is it possible for the folders to be closed until they are opened? It would be nice if it were similar to Thunderbird for the desktop. If all the folders are opened, you have to scroll a lot until you get to the target folder. Best wishes Christian ... View more

Title of Idea may be a little bit misleading as what I'm really looking for is a way to have multiple "New Message" icons in the application window, one for each configured account. I recently migrated from Claws-Mail to Thunderbird when I needed to add 2FA to my Hotmail accounts, something I could not get working on Claws-Mail. Claws-Mail forces a user to select which account they want to originate a message from by converting their "New Message" button in to a drop-down combo-box... I have 5 IMAP email addresses linked in to my email client... and for some strange reason, my brain skips over the part in the "New Message" process where I should check which account is set as the originator for a message... and as a result I have a habit of mixing up and sending an email that is related to a company where I'm a director from my personal account, or vice-versa. By default, Thunderbird remembers the last-used account and simply adopts that one, which in my case results in very confused email recipients and, more often than not, an important message going in to the recipient's spam folder... What I'd like to be able to do is have a custom toolbar in Thunderbird, with one button for each of the Accounts configured in the client, with each button color-coded and custom-labelled, so when I need to start a new mail thread, I can be confident of using the right account. I'm pretty sure that this would be easy to achieve if, with the configuration/definition of a mailbox in the client, there was an option for, "Dedicated New Message" button? If I select this option, then Thunderbird would simply add an extra "New Message" button that I could customize, say with a label [another parameter] and color [selectable option]. Thanks in advance for your consideration. ... View more

Thunderbird provides good support for mainstream email service providers around the world. But in China, people mainly use the mail service of Tencent (QQ/Foxmail) and NetEase (163/126). It is a pity that the Tencent mailbox service with the most users in China is not compatible with OAuth2, but NetEase is support OAuth2 now(This is NetEase's support document/Only Chinese,) , and it works normally in Outlook Android  But Thunderbird does not support it now ... View more

We need to "Mark-Not-Junk" or to edit the "Spam" or "Junk" message filter by  each address or Subject.  It is tedious to go through the Junk folder multiple times for an address that inadvertently got marked Junk. ... View more

When going through my inbox, I like to filter by unread messages and then take action on each message or thread. However, when I select some messages and (for example) archive them, they disappear and the message beneath them in the list becomes selected. This message is then marked as read because it has been selected, despite the fact that I never actually deliberately interacted with it as a user. This sometimes makes me miss emails because they get marked as read without me ever reading them. I think this could be fixed by ensuring that changing the selected message as a result of the current selection disappearing does not count as "reading" a message. ... View more

I love the way I can set up rules in Thunderbird to move email around and hitting the spam button.  The problem is, when I am traveling the rules are not applied because my Thunderbird machine is off or asleep.  I'd like the rules applied when I am not at home.  This means they would execute on the server. ... View more

When you right click a message a list of options comes up, many of which relate to moving or copying the message.  An obvious one (to me anyway) that should be on the list is Tools/Run Filters on Message.  This effectively moves a message as do others of the commands already on the right click menu.  Please consider adding this functionality.   Thunderbird  ... View more

One of the things I've always liked in Outlook for Desktop, is that you can easily duplicate an event or meeting by simply dragging it to a new place in the calendar while holding the Ctrl (or Cmd?) button. This page (https://supertekboy.com/2019/09/03/duplicating-meetings-and-appointments/) contains a short animation that shows how this works in Outlook. It would be a simple but great addition to have this function in Thunderbird as well!   ... View more

Outlook now uses OAuth2/Modern Auth for SMTP servers, which Thunderbird does not offer. This means I cannot send emails from one of my oldest  and most widely spread email addresses.  Thunderbird is always asking for donations; I have never donated. If (and only if) you update your protocols so I can continue to use my Outlook (Hotmail) address, I will finally send you some money. I know you have no reason to trust me, but take a chance. Maybe I can restore some of your faith ion the decency of humanity---after you restore my email access. 😄   ... View more

In the old Outlook 2013 email filters there was an option not only to move to trash but to immediately delete that email. Like many people I have multiple email accounts and I see the same spam messages over and over. I may have the same spam message multiple times in the same account. They all have the same "from" or "subject" and would be easy to filter to an immediate delete instead of routing to the trash folder. ... View more

View -> Window layout: Reduce the number of messages to 3 to create more space in the column for the current message. This is not possible with Supernova (!!!). Previously this was possible by moving the bar. ... View more

My eyes are not as good as they once were and I need reasonably large text.  In the classic view it would be very helpful if there was a hot key to turn off / on the messages headers when I am reading an email.  Most of the time I do not need to see these.  As of now the headers take up a lot of screen space and I can fine no way to compact or hide them. ... View more