Comments on: Getting insight into one’s own email

By: josedante

josedante — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:16:39 +0000

This is a great chance to see competing approaches to waht the yahoo beta and gmail labs are testing on their start pages.
As of datamining I guess Xobni is a great example of what ca be done. The MozillaMessaging sets the path in a quite clear way too: integration of social interactions and any kind of messaging (twitter, instant, status, etc); and user control over it all, fredom from walled gardens.
I must not be the only one who is all over impatient to se the implementation of this to see the light of day.

By: ChadL

ChadL — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:20:31 +0000

I second Andy’s comment:

* Filter rule based presentation
** create a rule action -> show on start page

From my perspective and use, I think this might be the single most useful element to a start page like this. Especially if it could suggest a filter or two for me.

For instance, if I get a lot of regular reporting emails with the same or similar contents, maybe Thunderbird could detect this and suggest a filter for me.

By: Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:56:28 +0000

Way off topic but…
David this new theme/layout is awesome!
I feel free! I used to have type my comments for here in another tab (Text Formatting Toolbar Composer – Fx extension http://codefisher.org/format_toolbar/) because I need to enlarge the text on web pages and the previous comment box didn’t allow me much space at all to see what I had typed and caused me to scroll quite a bit.

Nice job!
It’s fresh, clean, bright and wide!
Thanks.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:03:33 +0000

Is this something that may make it into 3.0? I love the idea and could make use of the tag visualization right now.

By: Shyam Mani

Shyam Mani — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:53:36 +0000

Great set of ideas! Can’t wait to see them on TB

By: freebusinessadvertising

freebusinessadvertising — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:22:45 +0000

im using outloook in past few year, but now i use thunderbird, i think its very usefull and simple.

By: giorgio

giorgio — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:18:37 +0000

Great stuff!

By: gigapede

gigapede — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:38:43 +0000

I love the data that you’re collecting and displaying, but sparklines are “signal to noise”.

How about using that row to show the data as different icons (or even textually) and put the folder’s title on or near the folder icon?

By: Cowboydan

Cowboydan — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:18:48 +0000

This is a great new feature for Thunderbird 3 ! Just quite like the “awesome bar” in Firefox : it seemed to me pretty optional at first but it is totaly addictive indeed.

When I first read this post I thought you were talking about the first page that shows up when Thunderbird starts which basically says “Welcome to Thunderbird blablabla …”.

Is there any plan to get rid of this and instead offer the user the ability to choose what tab / folder or anything else appears on start-up ?

An awesome feature would be a start-up page that’s styled like a magazine and displays a summary of what’s new and important (new e-mails, new feed items, new appointments and so on). Think of a Feedly kind of approach.

By: Andy Edmonds

Andy Edmonds — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:38:03 +0000

Bravo! Less than 7 years since I filed ” Bug 220863 – [RFE] Useful mail start page ” – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220863

My original ideas:
be of value:
* Counts of messages filtered into subfolders and links to those subfolders.
* A search dialog
* Top priority recent mail
** determined by replies to flagged messages
* Filter rule based presentation
** create a rule action -> show on start page

I still think showing the actions of filters would be useful for observing flow to neglected lists or buzzing topics. Soem keyword extracts from top flow areas might be cool too.