Thunderbird: Settings: allow to sync settings between devices

[Legendary4226]

Hi,
I'm using a bit Thunderbird, but there are a lot of small issues that you can consult here :  All the things that are holding me back from fully using and supporting Thunderbird 

A missing behavior, probably the most important one in my opinion: synchronization of settings between devices. I can't imagine fully using Thunderbird without this. For example :

A user begin to use Thunderbird a lot, this user will look at his emails from a phone plus two computers. He start to configure and discover on the fly some settings a little by little on his main computer. Then he decide to setup another device but find out he need to redo everything, not to mention that he has forgotten half of the changes he made.
In fact, he probably found out that Gmail, Outlook or another app already meet his needs. The question is, why did he started to try another app ? Probably because he needed a centralized app with all his emails so no need to have multiple tabs open on his browser. But he couldn't make the transition in a small amount of time while keeping his habits.

He had to change some settings because he couldn't get back his habits.

[Jon]

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[gcvsa]

This functionality would be very welcome. I regularly use at least 4 desktop computers, all of which are at least dual-boot with some combination of Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus I have an iPad and iPhone, so that's at least 10 different instances of Thunderbird that I have to configure with at least 4 email accounts.

I just got a new laptop yesterday, and have to set up Thunderbird all over again on both Windows and Linux, so that all my email is available to me no matter which OS I am currently using. Firefox Sync exists, and that functionality ought to be built into Thunderbird.

[S2000]

Thunderbird Sync will make this possible: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/firefox-sync-for-thunderbird/idi-p/28971 . It's a great feature to look forward to!