Talk:Thunderbird:Collected User Requests

Printing UI - Printing and Page Setup

Some things I'd like to see in Thunderbird (after trying to get my mother to move over from OE):

- Improve inline forwarding of e-mails: either allow a "quoted" style (as Evolution does), (bug 104604) or reduce the quantity of message header cruft placed in the message text (e.g. bug 244432).

<Wildman wrote:> Many of us agree as a carry over from MozMail, this one applies too... Bugzilla# 181527 Printing always prints full header

- Improve printing of e-mails. Again, reduce the message header cruft that is included with printouts. Mom prints a lot of e-mails for Dad (who won't touch the computer himself), and gets frustrated by a 10-line message printing out on 2 pages because the printout includes cruft such as every server that received the message as it transited the net.

- Improve layout for printing addressbook. A 4 page address book imported from OE prints out as 17 pages in TB.

Overall, great work guys, but it still needs some work for the techno-challenged like my mom (who are arguably the ones in most need of a solid, secure e-mail app).

<Wildman wrote:> Started this topic Firefox:Printing_and_Page_Setup under Firefox: System Components... I'm new to wikis, hope I put it in the right place for T-bird concerns too? Shouldn't a summary of this Printing discussion be merged into the main article topic Thunderbird:Collected User Requests?

Plain text messages - word wrap guide

I hardly ever send html mail, I use plain text.

I have a problem when creating the message - I sometimes write lines longer than the wrap limit - which results in horrible formatting when a message gets sent.

Would it be possible to have a visual indicator for the wrap limit when editing messages? (Netscape Communicator v4 used to do this).

• Rather than a visual indicator of the wrap limit, I'd like to see a visual indicator of where I've actually typed Enter (bug 232750). If these little thingies kept popping up in the display, people would learn to not type Enter in the middle of a paragraph, and these sorts of formatting problems would be solved. --mcow 12:34, 12 Mar 2005 (PST)

Filtering on IMAP using Message Body

Hello,

I like this wiki. It's my first time contributing. I have a feature request to contribute:

Filtering is pretty important to me, but not quite as important as using IMAP. Unfortunately, filters are useless to me unless I can filter based on the contents of the message body. Why does this work with local files but not with IMAP?

On a totally unrelated note, I'd also like to have the option to omit those three dashes that precede signatures.

- Shaylor

Possibility to delete emails from a POP server (not only when you move them from Inbox)

I have a feature request to propose:

Context: - An email account using POP to retrieve emails
- A lot of folders related to the account - A lot of filters to sort the emails in the different folders - I want to be able to retrieve my emails again on other computers. To do that, I use the option: Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings (of my account) -> Leave messages on server -> Until I delete or move them from Inbox

Problem: When the filters move the messages in the folders, these are no more in the "Inbox" ... and they are deleted from the server (but I don't want to). It is interesting when it is related to spam, but not when it is related to important messages. It could be interesting if only the messages deleted by the user are deleted from the server (and not if they are moved from the "Inbox").

Proposition: To add the option "Until I delete them (whatever the folder in which they are stored)" in Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings (of my account) -> Leave messages on server If so, we will have 3 options and it'll look like this:

Leave messages on server: - For at most X days - Until I delete or move them from Inbox - Until I delete them (whatever the folder in which they are stored)

That's it! This wiki is a great idea! Thanks a lot for all this work and I hope Thunderbird will have a long life :-)

deuterium