thunderbird interface design / NEW MESSAGE with multiple email accounts

[rachael-rosen]

HI!

it would be nice, if there were a more intuitive “new mail” feature, that clearly distinguishes which account is being used to send the email from. i find it a bit confusing, that when i am f.e. in (the inbox of) account 3 and press “new email”, an email is generated for account 1, not account 3.

the “write a new message” link on the main page of each email address is not easily seen. i often click on email instead, which is for setting up a new account. i don’t set up new email accounts everyday, this could well be in a menu, not on the front page.

The whole first line on the main page starting with “read message” could be

* on the height of “the Set up another account line” (best legible height of page) ,

* in the larger-sized font, with bold-type title (catches the eye, good first-glance orientation)

* starting with WRITE MESSAGE.

To read messages, I just click on inbox. And when I’m there, it would be nice to have a “new mail” feature I could access from there, for each account.

thanks.

[Jon]

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[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

For information purposes
Currently under Thunderbird bêta

About New message, have you verified
View > folder > folder pane header

https://www.youtube.com/embed/F_MbZvenO-w

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

If you'd like to try

Other and by way of illustration https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp

#composeButton {
color: #ff4000!important;
font-weight: bold !important;
background-color: #ffff00 !important;
}

You can paste CSS into this lightweight editor
https://www.userchrome.org/download-userchrome-css.html

Generate CSS file userChrome.css

You create a chrome folder

You move userChrome.css to the chrome folder

Go to your profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_how-do-i-find-my-...
Move the chrome folder to your profile folder

Config Editor https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/config-editor
Search toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
Double-click to switch the value from false to true

Restart Thunderbird

If you modify the code, restart Thunderbird

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Other information
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355520

Currently under Thunderbird bêta