We could help make thunderbird and mozilla mail act more like a PIM client by better integrating with existing (not built in) instant messaging clients. For instance, we can show IM presence in the message pane for email recipients for AOL screen names by running an http url with the email address in it. If other IM clients supported a similar technique, we could leverage that. Same goes for clicking on presence state in the message pane. If the user has an IM client installed and it properly registers as a url procotocol handler for it (such as aim urls with the AOL client), we could allow presence clicks to launch urls in the OS for the instant messaging client.

Scott, can we dup this to bug 216214? I think it's become the same thing, unless I misunderstand your comment.

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