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Visually distinguish between individuals and groups
In the address book, Thunderbird makes no graphic distinction between groups (or lists) and individuals. Outlook Express (which I have used for years) has groups displayed in a slightly heavier and larger font and assigns to groups a slightly different icon than individuals. Therefore, when you compose an email and click to choose the addressee, it is very easy to distinguish between groups and individuals. You can find who you want to send to very quickly. Until Thunderbird does the same, I'm not going to switch (but I would like to).
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I agree. It would also be really helpful if in the address book, address lists had a tree-like structure so for instance you could click a plus next to them to reveal the memebers, sort of like directories in explorer.
It would also be massively helpful if you could filter by lists so that you can see who is, or isn't in any number of given lists, or any list at all.
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Inappropriate?That's a really good idea, it would be great to have something like this
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Inappropriate?I agree. It would also be really helpful if in the address book, address lists had a tree-like structure so for instance you could click a plus next to them to reveal the memebers, sort of like directories in explorer.
It would also be massively helpful if you could filter by lists so that you can see who is, or isn't in any number of given lists, or any list at all.
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Yes, an address book structure like Outlook is what I really miss since I switched to Thunderbird. Why? I share my PC with my wife. She has her [(many) addresses of different categories, I have different kinds of addresses and we have common addresses of different kinds, like family and suppliers. Altogether too many to manage in one looong list. -
Inappropriate?In a business sense this is important. I hope this can be done quickly.
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Inappropriate?You can send ideas and feedback to mozilla at http://hendrix.mozilla.org1 Comment Add a comment
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Tom;
My understanding is that the project is looking for feedback to a number of places: here, moz.dev.apps.thunderbird, bugzilla, the forums at mozillazine *or* hendrix. Is there a pecking order we should be aware of?
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Inappropriate?Craig and Tom: We'd prefer the feedback here and if it's appropriate moz.dev.apps.thunderbird, and then if appropriate as a bug in bugzilla. hendrix is not preferred because it's designed as a 1 way feedback system and therefore hard to have a conversation there.
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Inappropriate?hey kids
what I would like to know is when the questions in this forum were posted.
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Hi Dad;
Look to the top, left part of the page. Just under the Mozilla Messaging header, you'll see that Bill "shared this idea 7 months ago." Is this what you meant? -
Inappropriate?Hi,
I made an enquiry on the genral TB forum, earlier today. Now I discovered TB 3.0 is underway.
I think if it is possible, it would be a good idea for the address book to be saved as an Xml file. In this way it would be easy to filter, alter, compare/syncronise with copies, extend/link to other address books, reuse with other applications (css + web) and customise with additional fields for the future. Whether it's birthdays, group association or any other user relevant information that the use would like to categorise. Xml is platform independent so a main/central Address book could be stored on Unix systems and accessed by windows clients or visa versa. This opens a number of possibilites that extending the functionality of TB and enable better integration to other applications.
Once the data is in XML, a style sheet can be easily defined to color/highlight/font define or what ever on which ever desired field.
What do you think?
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Inappropriate?Both tree-stryle address list display plus the XML format for address book content are great ideas. As a recent convert to TB (After nearly 15 years of Outlook Express, threw out Windows Mail Live in disgust!) I find the TB address book functional but clunky.
An Outlook-style duplicate email address check function when adding contacts would also be a big productivity enhancement.
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Inappropriate?I'm not sure if more thoughts are welcome here, but I'll give it a shot:
When reading an e-mail in the "standard view mode", you see the sender's e-mail address above it. In TB 3RC, you can click this address to choose between different actions to perform. But you can't choose to add the sender to a group of people in the address book, which could save a lot of time. It would also be handy if you - when already having the address book open - could simply drag-n-drop the address button to the desired group. -
Inappropriate?I have just posted question about the same problem (for me it is a problem due to number of addresses (over 250) in address book). I have used Outlook Express for years and tree\sub-folder system in the address book is one of the things that is (almost) an essential requirement.
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Inappropriate?I'm the person who originally posted suggestion back in, what was it? May? Honestly, for something this basic to not already be a part of the program is a little discouraging. I guess people are too busy chasing more exotic options.
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Inappropriate?Totally agree with you. I am new to TB after using OE for years and thought that it would have this facillity. After all the good reviews and recomendations TB gets this was\is a let down for me. I know that the address book lists addresses in alphabetical order but when you have (as I have) over 250 addresses this makes for a lot of scrolling and searching to find one address in a long list is extremely cumbersome.
I can only assume that the reviewers have only opened the program and viewed the layout but not actually put it to daily use in normal working conditions.
And no I am not a business or a charity just a home user with lots of world wide contacts, some of whom I contact weekly whilst others are every few months (collected over the years from various forums etc + familly and personal friends).
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While perhaps tedious at first, one thing you could do (that has worked reasonably well for me) is to make use of the Nickname field to incorporate your groups; I typically prefix "w." to a personal friend's work address. ("w.FirstName_LastName") and "devry." for some of my school colleagues ("devry.FirstName_LastName").. That way, from the new message interface, you're cutting down on the possible hits in the intellisense (?) when it pops up with suggested email references based on what you've typed so far.. I usually try to keep the prefixes down to 3-5 chars; but do whatever works for you..
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