1. Calendar is required. Lightning isn’t ready for prime time as of 0.7. Even with the obvious fixes, however, it MUST link to Exchange for office use. I’m running a Linux desktop for everything except meetings, for which I must rdesktop to a Windows terminal server. It’s the ONLY thing I need the terminal server for. Then, however, I have to ALSO accept the meeting in Lightning so that I get a popup in my main window instead of a shrunken rdesktop window.

2. Mailing list setup is less than pleasant. There’s no way to grab existing email addresses from the address book, it’s manual typing of each email address. Made my wife screaming mad the other week and when the wife is unhappy I’m unhappy. Please, for the sake of domestic tranquility, put some time into this feature!

Otherwise I’ve been pretty happy with the application and look forward to using it for a long time.

Downloading and Installing
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Downloading Thunderbird 2

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Installing Thunderbird 2

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I can’t believe that no one has fixed the inline picture problem or the attachment problem from rich text emails.

I can’t believe no one has made a shell integrating Sunbird to make an outlook clone/beater. You could choose to use tbird singly or with the combined shell.

Firefox is awesome, Thunderbird could be too if you guys would get BASIC functionality working.

I hate Outlook, but I use it because I’m sick of repeatedly trying to deal with attachments and image filled emails not working.

Please get on the ball

This is unacceptable. Let’s get Tbird to where it needs to be, SOON

I agree that although TB, as it is, is far from perfect, it is the base we need to build on.

I also agree with the need for a long term vision, and to me IM integration, better support for extensions and moe focus on the futher development of the Lightning extensions are certainly great ideas. While the use of e-mail may be declining amongst home users, it will remain vital for organisations. So developing TB to become a real alternative to Outlook is the way to go.

Keep up the good work!

The bigger theme there is clearly that I believe we should build enough infrastructure such as test suites and test farms so that we can take on architectural changes with more confidence.

Other projects like Evolution and KMail may already have large test suites for email that you could reuse (and collaborate on). There’s no sense in each project recreating tests for the same protocols.

At the moment all this is available with help from some addon’s. But this meakes Thunderbird a poweruser’s tool. To be more competitive the setup of email accounts and especially webm,ail accounts must be must simpler. No user can figure out how to download, install and configure to addon’s to get Gmail or Hotmail to work. This must be made simpler with a wizard, which also donwload the appropriate addonss and configures them at the same time. If we could get Gmail or Hotmail or any other to support Thunderbird as prefered offline mail client, usage would go up dramatically.

Small problem is that Thunderbird does not automatically detect online/offline and keeps asking for passwords etc when it cannot connect to webmail.

Lighting is also looking better al the time. But no calender is any good if this cannot be shared by different users. In office environments there is off course Outlook, which is hard to beat as it is bundled with Windows/Office. So the best option here is to link up with OpenOffice which is still lacking this functionality. Fot home users Exchange capability is not required, just beaing able to share address books, calander etc via FTP etc. would be enough.

Keep up the good work!

With Gmail’s introduction of IMAP, it’s already something that is in demand.

I think this should be something that Thunderbird should strive to achieve.