Thunderbird features/bugfixing request
By glazou on Tuesday 12 April 2005, 09:45 - Mozilla - Permalink
- when I click on the "Not junk" button because there is a false positive, I would like the email to go back to Inbox and then through Filters.
- the "Compose mail to" context menu entry when you right-click on an email in a message header does not allow to select the type of message you want to composer, plaintext or HTML. I miss that.
- I deeply miss the ability to change the folders and mailboxes order... As of today, my default mailbox is not the first one I created in T'bord but the third one; I'd like to move it before the others but I can't.
- I always view my mailboxes sorted by "Order received". First, that column has no arrow to show the sort direction and that's really painful. Second, Thunderbird often "forgets" that order at launch. Even if I selected last-received-on-top, I quite often get a first-received-on-top layout...
- I wonder how many users understand the "Compact folders" feature and what it does precisely... I think it should be automatic and the menu entry removed.
- Junk mail controls could have a "charset exclusion" set of rules: the user can select charsets and any incoming message using those charsets would be considered as spam. That would efficiently replace the spam controls that are not so efficient on chinese or korean emails. Yeah, I know, that's a filter; but filter controls don't allow a non-geek to select based on charset. We need a very simple UI for that.
Comments
Re: 3.
The folderpane tools extension may be just the right thing for you: www.chuonthis.com/extensi...
3. I agree with you. But until it's fixed in Thunderbird, you could use this extension : extensions.geckozone.org/...
Raaaats...
3. is partially possible in Seamonkey. If you set an account as default there, it is in the first position the next time you open mailnews.
5. The compact folders feature is really useful, if you use IMAP without a Trash. Then you have the deleted messages marked as deleted, and they are finally deleted, when you compact folders. Maybe the action should be renamed to "Purge deleted" or something similar.
I'm not sure, if it is a good idea to do compact folders automatically the default. There should be an option, yes. But with IMAP, compact folders needs a connection to the internet. This means, that you have to be connected when finishing TB, which might be not desirable for dial-up users.
I've set Compact Folder automatically by default at install, and i don't know how to disable it ...
It is really annoying ... --> it ask to compact too often, and this is really strange to ask that at startup --> so, TB try to compact folder and to retrieve mails at the same time --> so there is some errors (mails not retrieved or message box saying that some folder are not compressed ...)
I would prefer a manual compress folder operation
5. In the application suite, there was an option "Compact folders when it will save over x KB".
I think it's possible to re-activate that functionnality, using
mail.purge_threshhold
mail.prompt_purge_threshold=true
>jimich: using about:config you can change the value of
mail.purge_threshhold
By default it's 100 KB, 10000 will be better.
5. I've tried, it's ok with :
user_pref("mail.prompt_purge_threshhold", true);
user_pref("mail.purge_threshhold", 50000);
Some bug numbers:
1: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... (Seamonkey)
3: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show...
4: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show...
3. if you deeply miss the ability to change the folders and mailboxes order... On TB and the suite:
- the account which is set as default moves before the others automatically : go to "account parameters" to chose you default account).
- to change the order of the other accounts modify user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account10,account....) in "prefs.js"
Sylvain: This option still exists in Thunderbird (provided you installed "offline mode", which is the default I think). Go to the Advanced Options, click on "Offline settings", and the checkbox is there. Desperately hidden, but there
'the "Compose mail to" context menu entry when you right-click on an email in a message header does not allow to select the type of message you want to composer, plaintext or HTML. I miss that.'
at least on win, if you uses shift-click on the ctx menu (or toolbar button) the opposite of your configuration is used.
IE i prefer to reply in plain text always, but if i need to reply in HTML i just shift-click the reply buttn.
Cheers,
-S
Concerning 5:
Besides compacting the on-disc structure, the thing does something else: When you have a IMAP-Account set to mark a deleted message as deleted, compacting the folder will remove those messages.
So this should IMHO not being automated as it is a destructive thing - sometimes.
About deletion of messages on IMAP-Accounts: While the location of every other thunderbird-specific folder is changable, the trash is not. It insists on creating a "Trash"-Folder on the IMAP-Server. As I'm using TB on an Exchange-Server I want the Trash-Folder to be "Deleted Items", but I can't set this. Can I?
Philip
"Second, Thunderbird often "forgets" that order at launch. Even if I selected last-received-on-top, I quite often get a first-received-on-top layout..."
It works for me...