Sep 222006
Here’s a list of the bugs in Bugzilla related to the things I found while playing with Thunderbird for the last few days. Some of these are existing bugs and others are bugs I filed myself.
I’m still using it, and am debating sticking with it despite the handful of frustrating issues, although I still suspect the lack of address book integration will finally send me back to Mail.
- Double-clicking with the clicks in different places opens the wrong item.
- Would like to be able to toggle the read status without first bringing the message list window to the foreground
- Should be able to attach files by dragging to the content area of the message
- Printing messages prints with a grey background
- Add option to disable “connection timeout” alerts
- Remove message pane dragger when the pane is hidden
- Add option to quote selected text only when replying to messages
- Can’t undo delete message on IMAP
- Add a way to see all unread mail in all folders/accounts in one pane
- Label on the Mark button should indicate the default action that will occur when clicking the button
- Use bullets instead of asterisks to block out password characters
- Custom sound window says to pick a WAV file even though AIFF works
- Add a way to create accounts without using the new account wizard
- Add support for third-party spam filter applications
- Add a .Mac account type along with IMAP and POP on Macs
- Use keychain for passwords
- Add support for Mac OS X address book
I’m not filing the basic issues with the UI being noncompliant with some UI guidelines, or about widgets being non-native, since that’s all well known and is hopefully going to be addressed in the relatively near future.
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> I’m not filing the basic issues […] about widgets being non-native, since that’s all well known and is hopefully going to be addressed in the relatively near future.
If Thunderbird goes the way Firefox has gone lately, no, that won’t happen.
I have been using the Unread Folders sidebar for weeks. I love it! I just click the right arrow at the top of the All Folders sidebar to get into it. I haven’t seen the issue with the message pane dragger, but then I usually don’t have that pane opened in favor of seeing more messages in the list. I just open up a message window and use the Button! extension to add Previous! and Next! buttons to my toolbar to go from message to message.