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I'm giving Thunderbird a try in place of Outlook. However I miss having a "Quick Steps" like feature which allows me to write "macros" that operate on a selected email. I have many such macros in Outlook and I would really like them in Thunderbird. Frederick ... View more

The situation I have like a dozen e-mail accounts. I am filtering incoming mails into default folders like "cusomter", "supplier", "internal" etc. I have search folders that put together all unread mails in all "customer" folders from all accounts. This is a bit tedious, if you get new accounts or want to manage accounts. It would be awesome, if I could set up in the Unified Folders view other unified folders based on the name of folders! ... View more

Message Filters are a dream. A wonderful way of automatically or manually archiving loads of mails by category once read. The Unified Inbox is a dream. To see my many inboxes (and yes I watch about 20) in one list is wonderful and amazing. But the two features do not interplay. Message filters are on an account by account basis and not even easy to copy from account to account let alone run on all accounts. It would rock, IMHO if we could run message filters on the Unified Inbox! A Unified filter set! ... View more

Hey, Sometimes all I want is to have one to three mail boxes that I need to quickly access. If I could have a view where I can specify the mailbox, folder(s), and/or subfolder(s) to have easily accessible, it could help with moving email when I have a need for physically changing where the email is to be moved to.     ... View more

Is it possible that when viewing junk folders and reviewing an email that is "Not Junk" and flagging as such, Thunderbird could update Outlook and Gmail (and other email providers) of that status without having to open a browser window and log in to do it directly with the email provider? This would keep future emails flagged as "Not Junk" with the provider from going to the Spam folders. ... View more

I thought it would be so good if it were possible to optionally right justify From and Correspondents columns. Particularly in Dark Mode, which I prefer most of the time as it's easier on the eyes; with lots of emails from various sources, I find it all a bit of a blur. I think this is partly to do with the Font thickness. In Mac OS system dark mode, the font in the columns seems too bold. It's the same in light mode, but bold seems ok with black on white, whereas in dark mode, white text on black background perhaps could be lighter, or less bold for better visual function. But with that out of the way, the crux of the matter is that I think it would be much better, easier and quicker to take in visually, domain sources of emails if the list could optionally be right justified, so that common source domain suffixes could be recognized in a list much easier and clearer. This would mean, of course, truncating from the start of lines, rather than the end, allowing for column width. I know that this is basically what the filter function is for but this implementation would allow for quicker sorting and dealing with new emails in particular. It would just be a lot easier to take in visually. Left justification of various domains can look a bit of a confusing mess. Please say if you also think that this is a good idea. I hope to see this implemented in my favorite email client soon. And I hope that future releases are as backward compatible as possible and as light as practicable. (Still using Mac OS 10.15.x; and some people have their reasons for using older systems than that.) ... View more

I write many proposal email (not SPAM) and most of them as are send to generic emails like " info(at)name_of_the_company.com"  or people that just do not monitor their mail or for any other reason, resulting in a lot of effort that goes unanswered.  I end up forgetting and I would like to have a function in Thunderbird that  when I request a "Return receipt" and the receiver do not reply I can just bring them up to follow up. ... View more

When I use the searchbox the spam folder and the bin are excluded. Why? There should be an option to search every folder. ... View more

Hi, I think it would be great if we could add a unified "all mail" folder which would by default show all inbox and sub-folders emails -- so all emails, except sent/outgoing/template/draft. I find this a rather convenient tool in a dedicated mobile app that I use, especially when the number of accounts and sub-folders grows and you are looking for an email without clearly remembering where it landed. And just very useful overall to get an overview of recent messages! ... View more

Working in a team makes it necessary to create a calendar event meanwhile not all had agreed yet. Having the option to mark an event as tentative would be very helpful. ... View more

Those who live and work in a different time zone than those they are working with, or they live in a different time zone than their family and friends live in, might find it helpful to have a second time zone shown in the calendar tab. I come from Outlook, and I had it there. It helped a lot to when negotiating which time an event/meeting/call should be scheduled for.    ... View more

Wanting to replace Microsoft Outlook with a client that's never open source, I've been trying to use Thunderbird for a long time, which I'd like to use as my primary client. The problem is that for years, a system hasn't been implemented to set the font size when composing a message in POINTS (like in Outlook) rather than pixels. This is very annoying because, since I use email for work, I need to be able to send and forward emails while maintaining text consistency according to aesthetic and graphic parameters chosen by the company. This is very difficult with the current composition system, which only allows you to choose the font type but not the exact size, except for a generic "small, medium, large..." proportional setting. Having repeatedly sent emails that I could see correctly but the recipient received with a graphically inconsistent and unsightly display (different fonts and sizes in various points of the body text), I followed every tutorial and advice I found online and in forums, but without finding a definitive solution. So I tried to create an extension that allows you to set a certain number of fonts (the most common and used) with the size in POINTS, but unfortunately the Thunderbird API does not allow you to fine-tune the aesthetics of the message, so I only partially solved the problem (I can only change the font and size throughout the entire message, not just in the spot I choose). If anyone has the same needs, I would point you to my extension called "Font PT Selector", but I would kindly ask you if it were possible to implement a function of this type directly in the Thunderbird editor, or to suggest how to modify the code to make it more precise, so that it allows you to change different fonts and sizes in various points of the text, thus making my newsletters decent and attractive, professional-level, allowing me to permanently replace Outlook with Thunderbird, as I strongly believe in the principle of open source. THANK YOU in advance for your attention. ... View more

A recent change to Thunderbird has set template mails to open in 'view'. This ruins the workflow of people who have setup templates to be used as is and prefer them to open in edit mode so they can be used right away. It's not a huge deal to incorporate Ctrl+E into the process before applying a sender email and hitting send/send later but it's an unnecessary and fruitless change. The option to select the 'mode' in which templates (and all mails) can be opened would be a great addition.   ... View more

Thunderbird is one of the greatest free email client for private or corporate use, but I miss one small feat - ability to work pure online, thin mode with full mail indexing, using IMAP. What do I mean by that? - TB is configured to connect mailbox by using IMAP4 - TB does not permanently store a copy of the message locally (something like when you switch the "mail.server.default.offline_download" option to false) However, when you connect to your mailbox for the first time: - It will Index the directory tree that is subscribed (default: all) - It will download headers (title, from, to, date, etc.) of each message (this currently works when "mail.server.default.offline_download" is set to false) to build *.msf files - It checks the search index (GLODA) to see if it has indexed the content of messages that it has indexed previously - if it doesn't, it downloads these messages, indexes the content, but does not store these messages locally - in other words - it downloads them "temporarily" in order to build the GLODA index (global-messages-db.sqlite file) - Each new message that comes into the "Inbox" is downloaded, indexed (from, to, etc. and its content), but is not stored locally permanently. - Each time you open a message, TB has to download it again.   What are the advantages of this "thin" mode over standard IMAP work? - TB has the same knowledge about messages as in the case of normal operation, but does not consume the local disk space that these messages would occupy. - This is a huge advantage (not storing a local copy of mail permanently) for thin/air laptops with limited disk space (for huge mailboxes) with fast Internet access - TB does not have to deal locally with huge amounts of *.eml files for very large mailboxes, especially when filters are in effect or the user changes/moves messages locally - this work is done by the IMAP server, TB is only an image of these changes. - The free space (not occupied by the local copy of the entire mailbox) on these types of laptops can be used for other purposes. PS: Partial functionality can be achieved by setting "mail.server.default.offline_download" to false - this means that messages are not stored locally, while GLODA indexes only from, to, subject/title - without the message content (and this is what I want to add indexing of message content in this mode) Thunderbird  ... View more

Today I was sending an appointment for my organization and needed to attach a couple of documents and ended up having to revert to Outlook.   Thunderbird attachments for Calendar appointments only allows webpage as attachment type.   Please add the ability to search documents to attach to Meetings or Task events. ... View more

Hi there! Address books should be color-coded. Email addresses stored within them should then be assigned the corresponding color code. This provides a better overview of available addresses – including email addresses stored in mailing lists and originating from different address books. -Gerry. ... View more

Outlook on Android has a very useful feature which is after swipe-delete an option briefly appears to Undo. This is great if you happen to accidentally delete an email ... View more

Hello! Lovely mail app you've built, thank you. I was just wondering if it's possible to add an inbox zero message/statement/picture when the entire inbox is empty (maybe a toggle for this in the settings) to reward users who finish their inbox, in both Android and Windows version. Thanks! ... View more

From the bug report , which also has a screen shot mock up "This would make it easier to identify the folders of diffrent mail accounts. This would also make sense for the top account nodes." ... View more