Thunderbird Android: Customise account icon

[Gambalunga]

If you have several email accounts they are shown in a coloured "icon" with 2 letters which seem to be taken from the mail server name.

For example if the server name is gmail.com the icon is shown as "GM". If you have 2 Gmail accounts they are both shown as "GM". The only customisation that you can do is to change the colour of the "icon".

It would be nice to either select the two letters displayed or use an account image.

Note that the 3 accounts "GM" are all gmail.com accounts but the only display difference I can set is the colour. 

[Jon]

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[Kurash-Rex]

Just completed installing Thunderbird on my Pixel 6 and importing my account information from my laptop, which went swimmingly, only to immediatly run into this limitation. I was initially thrilled to have Thunderbird on both my laptop and Pixel having used K-9 Mail for years. I'm now wishing I hadn't been so quick to uninstall K-9 as this oversight is rather annoying.

Also, since TB removes the active accouint from the seleciton list making it more difficult to easily choose the desired account.

[Mal-El]

An essential feature that is missing. Addbit ASAP, please

[TedT_USA]

Below is an example of the current Android Thunderbird presentation.
Also, shown is the current Android Blue mail presentation.
Candidly, I don’t care if the underlying email account is Yahoo, Gmail, Proton, private server, etc.
But, I do wish to click on an email account directly.
Thus, it would be useful to display a user supplied two three character identity.
How?
Add one more field to the basic account data, wherein the user can input two or three characters to more easily identify one account vs. another.
For various reasons, essentially segmentation of various “classes” of emails. I have multiple accounts. A two or three character identifier would really assist me or anyone to move directly to a target account. Showing my email accounts with a two of three character acronym identifier is far better than multiple accounts displaying YA or GM with only a color to remind server, but NOT which email account.
My email accounts and my identifying characters if the Thunderbird team would accept and implement the foregoing.
FAM Family
FRN Friends
VET Veteran
PUR Purchases
MED Medical
NWS Newsletters
MST Master
MUS Music
WFE Wife
EVE EVENTS

[fmstrat]

Agreed. Things should not go backwards from K9, especially after it was said K9 would continue to be supported. This is one of those "minor" things that gives Mozilla's primary user base a bad feeling in their gut.

[kewisch]

Please see also https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/two-letter-abbreviations-for-accounts-on-thunderbird-for-androi...

I'm leaving this one separate since it is more about icons than the letters, but we're working on it 🙂

[wsmwk]

Good news all around => In Development

[Honeybadger]

Glad it's in development. I really need this - having 10 different icons which all say "JJ" is... problematic.

Since we're talking design as well: I much prefer the rectangle + 3 letter example above. Much more effective use of space than the dots. Much easier to see them as separate items.

The bolder font  is helpful as well, though not nearly as big an improvement as making 3-letter rectangles.