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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01-Feb-18 4:39 AM, Ben Bucksch
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<font face="Calibri">While a 10 year plan is wonderful, as a group
we have not addresses some of the technical debt left by Mozilla
nor have we addressed what our users have difficulty with right
now. </font><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri">Personally
I have no idea what whatsapp is. It might be good. It might be
excellent. All I know is it does not help our users migrate
their profile to their new device and until we can manage that
small task we will continue to bleed users to applications that
can. How 1985, when we tell them to open the file manager and
start copying files.</font><br>
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I would like to see now;<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">The product to have enough smarts to
actually manage the migration from one device to the next.
The user should be assumed to have the intelligence of a rock
and the computer literacy of a 2 year old. Lots of swipe and
no idea how any of it works.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">The user interface to have the necessary
components to access the command line switches, at least those
around profile switching. DOS is dead except for the
professionals, and so are command line switches.<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">To see read write access to the apple
address book, instead of read only.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Windows contacts to be integrated into
Thunderbird out of the box. No config editor to make it
work. Folks want to sync their contacts with their phone.
Most have an app that syncs to windows People. Lets leverage
it.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Thunderbird to have a user interface with
multiple lines in the subject. I have no use for it, but I
listened to folk ask in vain for that for almost a decade
now. When a patch was put up, Mozilla declined as XUL is not
part of their razor focus.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">A product that works with Windows using
whatever the current flavor of MAPI is. Just as I would like
to see mailto: continue.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">To see an end to the ideological
discussions and a start to making Thunderbird do something
useful with all the mail it gets. Instead of not showing
images, not forwarding images etc. Upside down images are not
user friendly. Nor are rectangles with images on the end of
the mail. Or images that disappear when you click forward. If
what we get is not up to our definition of what the RFC says,
surely we can rewrite the email to fix the flaws.<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">A huge improvement in the compose
process. If Mozilla are not prepared to fix their defective
implementation then we need our own. Having used the SUMO
interface in Firefox, the loss of system caret etc are not
acceptable. No wonder our users are restless.<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">Access to the mail HTML source should not
require an add-on.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">To click write and have the option to be
presented with templates to use in the mail. Templates are
not user friendly.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">The product should refuse to send mail if
the font is not suitable. Arial for instance is not a unicode
font, but we do not reject it. </font></li>
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I would like in 10 years for there to be a thriving community
around a robust and well supported email product that is best in
class. We should not go off looking for new communication
protocols until the get the ones we have in a position to be
considered the best. I would also like for Thunderbird to be less
generous with it's disk space usage. MOZEML has to go away at
some point.<br>
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We should not be in the backseat having folk ask for feature
parity with Outlook. They should be asking for Outlook to add the
Thunderbird features. We are a dedicated mail client, but we
have been playing catchup for a decade now. The debt that was
inherited is huge, but we must overcome it if Thunderbird is to
have a bright future.<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
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