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Thunderbird 1.0, give us some basic features please!

December 28, 2004 | 11:55 a.m. CST
Thunderbird 1.0

I love Firefox and use it as my default browser on all my computers and thinks it's 100 times better than IE, I just wish that Thunderbird was as good as Firefox. I want nothing more than to quit using Outlook and be totally Microsoft free, but before I start using Thunderbird as my default mail program there are some features I want before I'm willing to give up Outlook totally.


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If you're a Mozilla / Thunderbird developer and you happen to do a google seach and find this blog please add these features. I think you would win over a lot other Outlook 2003 users that would like to switch. Also, if you use Thunderbird 1.0 and have found solutions to these problems please leave your solution in a comment or if you are experiencing the same problems then please let others know in a comment so people know I'm not the only one! :)

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Comments

Jeff Croft
1.   At 12:53 p.m. CST on Dec. 28, 2004, Jeff Croft wrote:

Thunderbird is my preferred e-mail client on Windows, but really, Apple Mail is what I use the most.

That having been said...

  1. Spell-checking as you type is a MUST. This ommission is huge, and Thunderbird NEEDS to get it added, or no one using Outlook or Apple Mail will take it seriously.

  2. On Mac, Thunderbird (and Entourage, for that matter) ought to integrate with the system-wide address book that Apple provides. It just makes sense.

Brent O'Connor
2.   At 1:04 p.m. CST on Dec. 28, 2004, Brent O'Connor wrote:

Jeff,

I agree that Thunderbird and Entourage should sync with the system-wide address book that Apple provides. I think I remember seeing something that would allow you to do this for Entourage, but I've never tried it.

Brent O'Connor
3.   At 11:01 p.m. CST on Dec. 28, 2004, Brent O'Connor wrote:

I found the following extention after doing some searching on the mozilla forums.

In-Line SpellChecker 0.4.75

Roy Schestowitz
4.   At 10:19 a.m. CST on Dec. 31, 2004, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

The automatic spellchecker is one of the features I like the most about Thunderbird.

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/index.php?p=23

Doug Fischer
5.   At 6:58 p.m. CST on Jan. 5, 2005, Doug Fischer wrote:

Thunderbird (and Firefox for that matter) rock! I use both of them by default on Windows and OS X (having just recently switched from Apple Mail on my Mac). However, I do agree there are a couple touch-ups on T'bird that would make me happier:

The ability to more easily manage your signatures as well as being able to have multiple signatures for an account (a la Apple Mail) is a big one for me. I would think this would be a relatively straightforward extension to code.

The address book though is probably my biggest pet peave. Granted, at least for my work email we're moving to LDAP so I can use the LDAP directory, but I'd like to be able to use the Apple AddressBook for my personal stuff and not have to duplicate things in T'bird or else have to try to sync.

Keith
6.   At 1:33 p.m. CST on Jan. 6, 2005, Keith wrote:

The feature missing for me is only quoting selected text in a reply. Using Sylpheed Claws, I am so used to selecting the text of interest and hitting reply, and commenting on it. Who wants to manually remove all the superflous text anyway?

hip
7.   At 6:17 p.m. CST on Jan. 30, 2005, hip wrote:

And what about changing from HTML mail to plain text, whenever you need it? I think there's not even that option in Thunderbird.

You have to go down the config options, modify, write the mail, send it and configure back.

(if I'm wrong, please add a comment telling me what I'm missing. Thanx)

Hip
8.   At 11:17 p.m. CST on Jan. 30, 2005, Hip wrote:

You're right, there is no built in toggle to toggle back and forth between compossing a HTML e-mail and a plain text e-mail. However, I think there is probably an extention that you can get for Thunderbird to it to do that. I did a little searching to try and find out but didn't. I didn't search that long though. :)

Clif
9.   At 2:05 p.m. CST on Feb. 8, 2005, Clif wrote:

Hold the Shift key down when clicking the Write icon in the tool bar. This lets you compose a message in the other format.

Bob
10.   At 4:49 a.m. CST on Feb. 14, 2005, Bob wrote:

Thunderbird lacks a basic function and that is the ability to remove duplicate messages. Kmail (Linux) has it and so does The Bat (Windows). I wish that this feature would get built into Thunderbird or that someone would develop an extension which would address this issue. Else, Thunderbird roxs!

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