Re: Wishlist for Thunderbird... please email me with responses/flames etc...

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/P.M.

Jeff Schaffzin skriver:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am a recent convert so to speak from MS Outlook to Thunderbird 0.9. It 
> took me forever and a day to migrate each of my individual folders and 
> messages from Outlook over to Thunderbird and I am still paying the 
> price now because it looks like my Outlook.PST files were too difficult 
> for Thunderbird to handle. Because of this, I have some questions and 
> hope someone has some answers.
> 
> I would also if possible greatly appreciate it if someone sends me an 
> e-Mail with the answers because chances are I won't be able to find this 
> again and hope someone can give me some insight...
> 
> 1. For some reason when I try to import folders that are really deep 
> from Outook to Thunderbird, the system chokes saying that it is unable 
> to create those folders. Is there a character limit to the string that 
> was used to define the folder name or names... For example:
> 
> I had a folder in Outlook that said: foo>foo1>foo2>foo3>foo4>foo5 with 
> some subfolders along the way in foo2 (say foo2.1), foo3 (foo3.1) and 
> foo4 (foo4.1) with some sub-sub fodlers in foo2 (foo2.1.1). and so on. 
> (Yes I like to keep things granular). When I try to import all five of 
> these folders and their related children, the system balks or hangs 
> saying that I cannot create foo2.1, foo3.1, foo4.1 and 2.1.1 without it 
> choking if I go much deeper than this.  Some names can be longer than 
> others and some may have spaces in their names... is there a problem 
> with this?
> 
> 2. Much simpler question: Why can't Mozilla Thunderbird support the 
> ability to dump more than one item with the same name in the trash? When 
> I tried to import files from Outlook to Mozilla for some reason I 
> managed to get a ton of duplicates and when I tried to remove them, the 
> system said that there was a file with that name in the trash and could 
> not delete it. This is crazy because I need to be able to delete tons of 
> duplicates?
> 
> 3. Speaking of duplicates, I want to be able to go into a folder and 
> delete duplicate messages. When I went into Mozilla after trying to dump 
> some files from Outlook, I ended up making duplicates and sometimes 
> triplicates of the same file! What can I do to delete those files?
> 
> 4. Is there any way that you can have a 1:1 relationship between e-Mail 
> accounts their POP account and their SMTP account? I have at least two 
> e-Mail accounts where I am dumping files and I want to be able to have 
> the system intelligently use the right SMTP server for each account so - 
> if I send mail from foo.com and bar.net, and the SMTP servers 
> stmp.foo.com and smtp bar.net instead of having to manually switch 
> between the two servers...
> 
> 5. Is there a way that the system can highlight what mail came from what 
> provider by color coding mail from say foo.com in some arbitrary color 
> and bar.net in another one?
> 
> 6. The rules engine needs to be able to give the user the ability to 
> dynamically create a new folder if a folder was not there before and not 
> rely on the user to click "New Folder" first and then find the parent 
> where it will be held. This also can be done so much nicer in a tree 
> format for you to pick the right folder instead of having to go through 
> an infinite number of drop downs to find your right folder.
> 
> 
> 7. Is there a way to import/export only certain folders instead of 
> everything? Also, if you want to backup everything to install again on 
> another machine, how do you do this without losing everything (I have 
> 10s of thousands of emails that I keep for a variety of reasons and I 
> can't afford to drop them).
> 
> 8. When you migrate from Outlook to Thunderbird certain HTML messages 
> get corrupted so all you have left is a bunch of stripped text and a 
> useless message without any HTML. The system will take new messages 
> successfully but cannot interpret the migrated messages at all - any 
> idea why?
> 
> I have other requests but these are the big ones I have now... any help 
> in these would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> If this also does not fit in this newsgroup, please let me know where to 
> post this request list - in e-Mail please!
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jeff Schaffzin