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<pre wrap=""><b> What specific qualities do you like about Thunderbird?</b>
I like the idea that the mails I have are mine, and not just something a company keeps on the server and I'm given access to. They are mine, and I have access forever without anybody (easily) preventing me from that. I want to have easy access to mails from different accounts in the same UI, and not have to think about UI differences between providers. Simply consistency.
I like that it's versatile and can be used on all the desktop platforms.
UI-wise, it has a certain old-fashioned tactileness that makes operations quite efficient, all in all. Some webmails try to imitate bits and pieces of it, but seldom with much success. Thunderbird just lets me do what I need without going back and forth trying to find out where to click to next. Sure, part of it is probably old habits, but quite a lot of the UI concepts haven't drastically changed over the years - I do think that's not just coincidence but the fact that it works out.
Thunderbird lets me keep track of what I need to do, and with Lightning, when to be where. When I sometimes need to look up details of something that happened ages ago, I usually find that information without much hassle, usually with the Quick Filter - which is one really great utility I use all the time
<b> Where do you see Thunderbird in 10 years?</b>
Thunderbird should be the leading open source mail application. In general, I'd want it to be much more helpful than it is today. It already has access to your mail, calendar, and contacts - and this without privacy concerns like you have for webmails. Make all the information integrate well together.
It should be more polished, and make our users look good.
It should continue to embrace open protocols and standards, and show the way for how well things can really fit together if these are well designed.
I'd like it to support various common workflows efficiently inside the mail client. For instance, let's say you try to schedule a meeting between a group of people. You want to summarize that in the end, who could come where when. Thunderbird should be smart enough to help with that. Say you have tasks on a list, and you want to follow progress. You should be able to do this not leaving your mail - and Thunderbird should be able to give you an overview of all the tasks for all the people (assuming you got eamil updates so the data is there) you'r discussing with. I believe quite many of such work flows could be implemented in-mail, and could be efficient for small groups standardizing on Thunderbird. Largely the data would be embedded as meta fields in the mails, and the mails would be fallback-safe to work without the smarts for when a non-Thunderbird recipient receive them. Sure some things are just better to do server side, but for a lot of flows where data size is small, the main thing is really that you get updates on what happened. There's no reason not to just have the information inside the client and display and summarize it nicely.
Easy to use, end-to-end working encryption should be supported.
So in summary, not radically changed. Just improved and way smarter.</pre>
<p> -Magnus<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi Folks,
thank you for all the valuable input so far, I think this has been a
helpful exercise. We've gone pretty deep into discussing some of the
opinions that have come up. Doing so has its value, and all of what I've
read contains discussion points that I think need to be talked about.
Still, I think we need to start with a more high level approach for now.
What I would like to make sure is that we get a diverse set of answers
to the following original questions that Ben brought up:
What specific qualities do you like about Thunderbird?
Where do you see Thunderbird in 10 years?
If you haven't yet answered these, please do reply. We're looking
forward to hearing your input. Please also respond if you feel someone
else has already answered, this helps see how popular an opinion is.
Philipp
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