Open 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)

enhancement

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(Not tracked)

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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 ----------- - "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
Attachment #191897 - Attachment filename: pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png → compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png
Attachment #191897 - Attachment description: theme - pinstripe - pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png → theme - pinstripe - compose-toolbar-sendlater-small.png
Attachment #191896 - Attachment description: theme - pinstripe - pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater.png → theme - pinstripe - compose-toolbar-sendlater.png
Attachment #191896 - Attachment filename: pinstripe_compose-toolbar-sendlater.png → compose-toolbar-sendlater.png
> 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 [...] > 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
Attached patch Patch - version 1 (deleted) — Splinter Review
(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.
This bug is a duplicate of bug 223381
Comment on attachment 191907 [details] [diff] [review] Patch - version 1 Don't forget the related theme images, which have been uploaded as separate Attachments.
Attachment #191907 - Flags: review?(mscott)
*** Bug 223381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.
Attachment #191907 - Flags: review?(mscott)
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.
(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.
QA Contact: front-end
Assignee: mscott → nobody
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.
For the time being, here's an extension that combines get + send. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/902/
Severity: normal → S3
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