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Bug 303799
Opened 19 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
[RFE] combined 'Get/Send' button
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(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)
Thunderbird
Mail Window Front End
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(Reporter: Thunderbird_Mail_DE, Unassigned)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 - 1.0+
Providing the german Thunderbird support forums for more than 2 years now, many
users told me they are missing a combined "Get/Send" button. This button exists
in Outlook Express for example.
To make these users happy, I've been creating a patch, which includes the
following buttons / functions:
1) "Get/Send" button with submenu
- "Get from" with submenu >
- a complete list of existing accounts // Get messages only from the
choosen account
- "Get from auth. accounts" // Get messages from accounts with saved passwords
- "Get from all accounts" // Get messages from ALL accounts and ask for
missing passwords
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- "Send all unsent" // Send messages out of folder Unsent
The "Get/Send" button could replace the old "Get" button as default in the
toolbar. But for now we should have "Get/Send" optional - but we SHOULD have it.
2) "Send all" button
This button sends all messages out of folder Unsent. We just have this function
in the File menu, but some people wish to have it in the toolbar. I believe we
should not have this button in the default set of buttons in the toolbar, but
users should have this new button optional.
3) "Send later" button in message compose window
I know, we have this function in File menu and we have it, when in offline mode.
But there are many users searching for this function as a fixed button and they
do NOT want to switch in offline mode, to have this button and send messages
later. The button could be (and is) only optional - so the GUI is not overloaded
by default. But why not providing this button as an option?
Because of having 2 default themes in Thunderbird (Qute and Pinstripe), this
patch includes icons and CSS for both themes.
One more improvement has been included in the patch. We give users the option
(in Tools > Options... > Advanced) to configure, if the "Get/Send" button itself
should ask for missing passwords or not. I believe this is an improvement
because of many users not beeing aware Thunderbird does not ask for missing
passwords by default (when using the existing 'Get all messages' function) in
all yet existing builds.
Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1•19 years ago
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Comment 7•19 years ago
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Updated•19 years ago
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Attachment #191897 -
Attachment filename: pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png → compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png
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Updated•19 years ago
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Attachment #191897 -
Attachment description: theme - pinstripe - pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png → theme - pinstripe - compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png
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Updated•19 years ago
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Attachment #191896 -
Attachment description: theme - pinstripe - pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater.png → theme - pinstripe - compose-toolbar-sendlater.png
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Attachment filename: pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater.png → compose-toolbar-sendlater.png
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Comment 8•19 years ago
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Comment 9•19 years ago
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> The "Get/Send" button could replace the old "Get" button as default in the
> toolbar.
I very much doubt that having a single button for both getting and sending mail
is a good idea. Having a distinct menu-button for "Send Unsent", similar to the
current Get button, i.e. with a dropdown list of accounts and an option for
"send all unsent", is more appealing, IMHO.
> 3) "Send later" button in message compose window
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> But why not providing this button as an option?
Why not making the Send button a menu-button, too?
While it still could keep it's label reflecting the current state, it could have
a dropdown menu with "Send now" and "Send later".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
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Comment 10•19 years ago
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Comment 11•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #9)
> I very much doubt that having a single button for both getting and sending mail
> is a good idea. Having a distinct menu-button for "Send Unsent", similar to the
> current Get button, i.e. with a dropdown list of accounts and an option for
> "send all unsent", is more appealing, IMHO.
Having a submenu with all accounts would be nice, but I believe we are not yet
able to send unsent messages for a special/choosen account.
> Why not making the Send button a menu-button, too?
> While it still could keep it's label reflecting the current state, it could have
> a dropdown menu with "Send now" and "Send later".
This would be possible - not sure if this would be the best solution.
Comment 12•19 years ago
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This bug is a duplicate of bug 223381
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Comment 13•19 years ago
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Comment on attachment 191907 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch - version 1
Don't forget the related theme images, which have been uploaded as separate
Attachments.
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Flags: review?(mscott)
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Comment 14•19 years ago
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Comment 15•19 years ago
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*** Bug 223381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 16•19 years ago
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Comment 17•19 years ago
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Comment on attachment 191907 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch - version 1
can this be done easily as an extension? I really don't like over loading this button.
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Comment 18•19 years ago
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The whole possibilities of the combined Get/Send button in this patch is available as an extension "MagicSLR": http://magicslr.thunderbird-mail.de/index-en.php
There is one thing we nevertheless should integrate into Thunderbird itself: the option to let Thunderbird get really ALL accounts (not only the autheticated) and ask for all missing passwords. For users it isn't obvious, Thunderbird gets only messages from authenticated accounts.
Comment 19•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #18)
> There is one thing we nevertheless should integrate into Thunderbird itself:
> the option to let Thunderbird get really ALL accounts (not only the
> autheticated) and ask for all missing passwords. For users it isn't obvious,
> Thunderbird gets only messages from authenticated accounts.
I would go further and ask for all missing passwords per default when I click the button and only an option for not to ask.
There are a lot of people you have problems with the missing password behaviour of TB. And I think there is only a minority who uses accounts where they don't want to ask for the password. And most of those people are advanced users who are able to find these settings.
Updated•18 years ago
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QA Contact: front-end
Updated•16 years ago
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Assignee: mscott → nobody
Comment 20•16 years ago
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I recommend this bug be closed because it has bit rotted and Shredder currently has a Get Mail account selector. Any future idea of a combo button should be a new RFE if the concepts are not included in the Future Tb 3 shipping theme, presuming Pinstripe will be replaced.
Additional this bug is a mess because two bugs are rolled into one with a patch attached that is not related to the original bug.
Comment 21•14 years ago
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For the time being, here's an extension that combines get + send.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/902/
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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