Hi, On 2/03/2016 10:32 AM, Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
I currently use Thunderbird and have used Evolution in the past. I have a wish list that I wanted to share with the aim of perhaps finding an alternative.
My criticisms with TB:
Okay, I do have the odd issue with TB, but it is the best I know today and I don't expect that to change. I now default to sending HTML emails and use the shift key to modify the action for text emails (to lists and when HTML makes no sense), works for writing new emails or replies.
- Changing the UI
They added a archive button to some threads and this is on the right of the preview pane tool bar. If this does not show then the delete button is in that location (as the toolbar aligns to the right). So if you are mas deleting email by scanning the pane then the delete button moves each time the archive one is shown. This means that you can to move the mouse (look / read / think) - rather than just deleting email.
Odd, does the behaviour of the "Del" key change in this instance? If not, why not just use that?
- Searching for everything
It shouldn't be that difficult to have some indexes for sender, sender domain and message prefixes. I would prefer to have a feature to have tabs / quick lists rather than search / sort my entire mailbox each time I wanted a type of message
I've found that the global index is best turned off completely (unless you have a small email count, then it becomes less useful anyway). But the quick filter works very well (<ctrl><shift>k) -- I usually have it filter by "Sender", "Recipient" and "Subject", leaving "Body" off deliberately. In most cases, I can find messages and conversations quickly and easily by one of the three filters that remains. Sometimes I turn those off selectively, but usually they are always on.
- Tags
Highlighting the row in colour is great.....but that only happens when you have focus on the message - otherwise the text only is a different colour. This means if you have a moderate use of tags then you end up with unicorn vomit rainbow text and have to drill down on each message to see the colour of it - which defeats the point of MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS THING IN BOLD RED tags.
I don't use tags, I sometimes "star" messages, but that's all I do to make it stand out.
- Plugins
I am sure there is a (valid) comeback that there "is a plugin for that already" or "write your own" [you flatter me :-] but I would like to think that the core of an email client should cover off:
Agreed, but some plugins are very useful and the ones that I prefer, well, let me know if you want me to elaborate.
- Email - Inbox filters/views/colour tags - Consistent UI - Tasks & Diary
...as core and not as plugins.
;-) The other unfortunate thing about TB is that Mozilla doesn't give it enough love and continually "threatens" to drop support of it due to "other priorities" :( :( :(
I get a lot of email across several accounts and perhaps I am being picky. I am interested in hearing if others have similar / opposing feedback and recommendations of configurations / plugins or applications that addresses these issues.
Plugins.... okay, the most useful I find are these: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/close-tab-on-esc/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/display-mail-user-agent/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/hide-local-folders/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mailredirect/?src=search (<ctrl>b for the win, bounces emails, can bcc yourself if needed) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/resetrec/ (great for when "ID10TS" want to cc loads of unrelated people) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/show-address-only/ (increases awareness of spam emails based on real addresses used) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/sortpref/ (allows me to sort ALL folders on ID easily, date doesn't always suit for search, nor other collumns) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/threadkey/ (t for thread, u for unthread .. works great, but if I want to open a bunch of emails in thread view, I select them first, then unthread them, then open them so I get them in the right order) btw I would prefer <ctrl><shift>A to open the add-ons in TB as it does in Firefox. Cheers AndrewM