Mozilla Connect

When I first open Thunderbird, obviously connections are made to servers, credentials are passed and authenticated, any emails waiting for me are downloaded (or at least the headers are).  The status of each transaction is displayed in the footer of the main Thunderbird dialog/app. If I open an email while all of this is still happening, the status updates are then transferred to the footer of the dialog that I just opened, to view an email. This can be perplexing, if the email I just opened has links in it.  As I hover over a link to see it's full URL in the footer of the email dialog, I can't read it because the transaction status overwrites the URL appearing in the footer of the email dialog.  I have to wait until all transactions are completed before I can "read" the URL of the link in question.  I like to see what a URL is before I click any link.  This is just a security thing, for me; but a very important one. I submit that the transaction status and following updates to said status remain in the main Thunderbird dialog/app, allowing a user to hover over a link in an email to see the URL of the link in the footer of the opened email dialog, without any interruptions from transaction status updates. This, to me, would be huge! Thank you. V/r, Jack ... View more

# Idea: remembering where the divide between thread list and message window is I suggest making the split a percentage. Even a very approximate one. "User has thread list as 25% of the window, message pane as 75%." A low granularity would be enough. 10 steps, say. 4 steps would be enough for me: 1/4 threads, 3/4 message; 50:50; or 3/4 threads, 1/4 message. Then it would follow as the window resized. # Reasoning One of my displays is portrait mode. I regularly switch between having Thunderbird full screen (10:16 aspect ratio) and tiled to half the screen.  Whenever I resize it down (to less than full screen) the thread pane shrinks to just big enough to show the current message and nothing else. The app does does store where the split is as a percentage or anything, it tries to store the size in pixels or something. When the window is suddenly smaller, it shrinks the thread view as small as it can, so the thread list disappears. I then have to "feel around" with the mouse for the invisible line that is the drag handle. (I think it's the line between the last shown thread and the headers but it's not indicated or highlighted in any way.) Then I can resize it so I can see the list of threads.    ... View more

Add a "one-click" block function to Thunderbird. This would allow users to instantly block a sender, automatically moving current and future emails from that sender to the Junk/Spam folder. This feature would  improve spam management and user efficiency. ... View more

Many times I am working on audio and I don't want to be disturbed by the sound of incoming email sounds. I would advice to implement an easy way on the main Thunderbird window to cancel or activate notification sounds from Thunderbird. Please not in settings, but on the main window. I have Thunderbird always open, but sometimes I just want to cancel the sound for a while. ... View more

Hi I often receive mails containing several internal images and I would like a button or a popup menu item saying "Save All Images" just like I can with attachments. Thanks for all your great work Best regards Asger  ... View more

advanced settings options: 1. message grouping (f.ex. same sender/contact, date) with another setting option: action (like delete) on all grouped messages or on single (last) message 2. more options for personalisation: like option to set any background color or the color of the header ... View more

When tagging a message, it would be helpful if in addition to the little colored tag in the bottom right-hand corner, if the message in the message list could be outlined in the same red/green or other color so it would be easier to locate. ... View more

I'd like to be able to keep the thunderbird settings, layouts, etc in sync across multiple systems (and ideally, mobile). ... View more

Please let me work productive! If I double click on an entry in my calender, I normally "WANT TO EDIT IT" - usually? For the times, I just want to see the details of the entry, no problem, I can just hover with my mouse to see them! And if I double click, I will see the details anyways. But often I have to change the entries and that means (specially on a two screen solution, to first find the requester, click on "edit" and then find the next window and start editing. I find it nerve wrecking ( I was used to open the edit window just with a double click! Please go directly to the "edit entry" window, instead. Thats my suggestion ( and that's how it was a while ago) Thanks a lot  Rishi ... View more

Hi there, as a daughter of an old person with recently developed bad visuals, I would like to make Thunderbird read out the information of its address-book entries. While he was using his eyes, he typed a lot of email addresses and phone numbers therein, also opening hours and special fields of construction workers. A lot of useful information which he only can access while I am able to sit there helping him. Currently, accessibility seems cumbersome as I have not found an easier way than the following, assuming Microsoft Windows text-to-speech functionality is activated: 1) open an entry for editing 2) press Tab key a lot of times to get a phone number or opening hours written in the notes. Thunderbird's source code does not seem to be available online so I cannot guess which programming language is written in, let alone contribute that feature by writing an add-on. I hereby suggest to document an existing accessibility feature or add-on I should have missed out on. Otherwise I hereby suggest to make Thunderbird have some "read full address book entry page" button, which then can be accessed by a keystroke or at least through short sequence of Tab keys. ... View more

In some email clients I have seen in my opinion a useful feature: Double-click on the Inbox (or any other section) to show only unread messages in the folder, click to toggle the display (all / only unread) ... View more

at the moment for indented numbered list the indexes are always the same: 1. dsd     1. dsds could different indexes be supported? As following: 1. dsd     a. fsdd          i. ... It is much needed. ... View more

I will attach some screenshots. In Thunderbird, Settings > Appearance > Message List > View Style: Table view, one of the default criteria that is displayed is the message subject. The Subject header has padding in front of it, so that if you shrink your message list you end up with |        S...| as a subject header. The subjects of the actual messages align to this header as well, and you have the same result. If you increase the width of the message list, the "Subject" appears more centered, but the subject in the messages (which is usually longer than "Subject" is still padded at the front, and you can't see as much of the subject as you ought to be able to. It's a small fix, and I wasn't sure if it should be a support request or an improvement idea. ... View more

reading the documentation it seems to me that the only way to bring a message filter from one account to others is to export the filter and import it into the desired account. It could be useful, when I decide to create a filter, to have the possibility to automatically spread it across all accounts ? I am referring in particular to the creation of filters on header "From, To, CC, Bcc" where in each account I have created a SPAM folder (with the same folder name) to trash messages. Thanks. marvin ... View more

So I understand we have filters, and from what I can see they seem to work rather well. But what I'm trying to do is a 'block sender' and 'block domain' kind of filters. I'd like to just be able to right click the sender and put it into an existing filter.   I guess I can paint the picture, I create a filter to insta-delete, another to mark as read and throw into a different folder...  With those filters built, when an email comes in I'd like the option to right click the senders name, and 2 options. "Apply Sender To Filter", with a flyout menu of my created filters and another that is 'Apply Domain To Filter'        ... View more

Would it be possible to have an option to stop Thunderbird 'opening' more than one email? Or at least stop it happening on a double click or 'enter'? This is something I never want to to, and end up frequently doing unintentionally. I often select multiple emails, e.g. to delete, move, or mark, and I sometimes end up with them all opening in separate tabs or windows.  This is possibly partly due to an old mouse that generates unintended double clicks when I click an email to add. It's also possibly partly due to my Parkinson's. The consequence of this can be painful if I've selected dozens of emails. Thunderbird grinds to a halt, and getting rid of all the tabs can be a little time-consuming as I have to either individually delete them, or 'close other', and restore the tabs I want. ... View more

Para usuários que possuem muitas caixas de email e tem conexão tipo IMAP, exportar arquivo único com dados de acesso e configurações de conta, sem exportar emails, para que os arquivos fiquem pequenos. Ao importar em novo Thunderbird, as contas seriam automaticamente configuradas e as mensagens recuperadas pela sincronização IMAP posterior. For users who have many email boxes and have an IMAP type connection, export unique file with access data and account settings, without exporting emails, so that the files are small. By importing into New Thunderbird, the accounts would be automatically configured and the messages recovered by later IMP synchronization. ... View more

Addresses with a "plus" element in the left hand side, a.k.a. sub-addresses, are effectively the same as the address without (the "naked" address), e.g. A.Non+Mozilla@example.com is equivalent to A.Non@example.com. Thunderbird should handle this intelligently, including some or all of associate any "plus" address with the corresponding account and/or contact, display the "plus" address as the "naked" address with a visually distinct label containing the "plus" element, reply to email sent to a "plus" address From that "plus" address, add an interface to simplify adding, removing or changing a "plus" element in the composer, and automate tagging and moving messages to folders based on the "plus" element. Handling replies may be tricky as senders will sometimes strip the name and change the case of the address. Ideally the address would be constructed as configured for the account with the addition of the plus element which can be easily edited in the composer. For instance, a reply to a.non+mozilla@example.com would be From: Another Non <A.Non+mozilla@example.com>  with the composer providing an easy method to change mozilla to Mozilla (or anything else). ... View more

Sometimes it is not so easy to identify spam in the inbox. The subject and the sender look OK and only when I click on the mail to open it, I can see the email adress to identify spam. It would be helpfull to see the full sender address when mouse over the sender in the inbox. Even better, when a spam button would be directly included with the mouse over bubble with the full email. ... View more