Thunderbird feature requests
I don’t mean to be ungrateful, but there are a couple of little features I’d like to see in Thunderbird. (I’d try to do them myself if I could find any documentation on how to extend it via JavaScript.) (Aha! I just found Roachfiend’s tutorial and it looks promising.)
First, when I hover over an entry in my inbox, it’d be great if I could see the first n characters of the message in a tool tip fashion. That way, when I’m doing a multiple select (ctrl-click), I’d have more to go on than just the subject line.
Second, I’m as confused about TB’s contact list and address book as I was about Outlook’s, but I think I’d like a way to add to my address book (contact list?) any address I’ve just typed into the “to” field in a message. Outlook lets me do that and it’s handy.
And I wish every message had an URL (sorry, URI) so I could link to it in other apps like my calendar. But that I suspect would take more than a simple little extension.
Oh, is there no end to my neediness?
Categories: Uncategorized dw
David –
in TB Options, Advanced Tab, General Settings section, there is a place to select “Automatically add outgoing e-mail (sic) addresses to my …” and there is a dropdown so you can select the addrsss book.
Perhaps this is what you were looking for?
Regards,
Craig
Thanks!
Really would like Thunderbird to have a feature long available in Outlook:
Need ability to EDIT the subject of any email item (post receipt) in the Inbox and then be able to save that email with the revised (edited) subject field. This feature has been available in Outlook for 10 years, since Outlook 97, and is invaluable for later search and retrieval of messages when the original “Subject” field was null or insufficient. This is a critical functionality deficiency in head-to-head comparisons with Outlook, when T-Bird is so rich in other feature areas.
Thanks to whoever might be able to do something about this!