Ok, just a quick post on bugs that I’ll probably be tinkering with and solving to learn a little more of how Thunderbird works.

Bug 236512 - “Get Mail” button stops working after successfully getting mail several times – imap
Bug 236588 - please add an auto-update function for the addressbook
Bug 238398 – checkbox for copy to Sent folder
Bug 305902 – Wrong ‘total’ and ‘unread’ number in saved search folders in some cases

These should help me figure out the main functionalities of the client.

As for what I plan to accomplish this semester..

My initial plan was to create an addon that helped stream online radiostations(In particular, my own University’s), but I realised it’s probably going to be much too ambitious.

Another idea is to add a threaded view for messages, ala Gmail, where the messages are concat-ed into a long conversation like view(with forwarded parts compressed). Currently, you can see the thread in the “subjects” pane and in a conversation window. Not sure how useful this is but some might prefer it.

The search function of Thunderbird looks interesting too.(strangely it is also less laggy in response than the main window but oh well). Can’t think of any improvements off the top of my head but I’ll bring it up in class and see if anyone has any suggestions.

Or maybe work with Simon on Mozmil(Which Gary initially started), we work well as a team and he did mention that it’s a pretty heavy.

Food for thought: I have only been using Thunderbird for a week and it has taken some time to get used to the interface and explore the features. It helps to be familiar with how a user would view/use the application. Right now I’m finding trouble making improvements because I have not used it for very long.

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