Re: Mulberry and OSX Catalina

On 1/22/2020, 3:49:09 AM, Raza Rizvi <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are some things that I have not been able to solve with 
> extensions/plugins and I thought a summary of these would be useful
> for others who might go down this same route, though obviously YMMV
> because what I use, you may not, and vice versa.
> 
> Configuring it to work with my LDAP address book (at Tuffmail) was a
> lot of experimentation, but it does now.
Yeah, LDAP is a pain in TB, but work is/will be happening to greatly
improve that.

> It doesn't display a deleted email count in a mailbox

View > Layout > 'Folder Pane Columns' enables the folder pane columns,
so you can choose which ones are on/off, BUT... this shows the number of
items in ALL folders. I didn't find a way to do it natively, only for
select folders, but...

There is an excellent Addon called QuickFolders that provides a toolbar
for quick access to favorite/frequently used folders, and does allow you
to do this for Folders that you have added to the Quickfolders toolbar,
so you could add the Deleted Items to the toolbar, then enable this option:

http://quickfolders.org/

> You can't right-click Match against a specific email to quickly find
> the others in same thread

I don't use threaded view, but TB does have right-click > 'Open Message
> 'Open in Conversation' (Message > Open in Conversation or CTRL+SHIFT+O)

TB also has Threaded View (View > 'Sort by' > Threaded), which shows all
messages as threads. You'll probably also want to show this column in
the Message list pane.

There is also an Addon called 'Thunderbird Conversations' that adds some
functionality:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/

> You can't insert a default domain in outbound addresses if one is
> not specified

Maybe toggling:

Tools > Options > Advanced > 'Config Editor' (button in lower right) >
mail.identity.default.autocompleteToMyDomain does what you want?

This adds the domain for your default account/identity set at:

Tools > 'Account Settings' (whichever one is at the top).

> You don't have ability to lock folder tabs to a particular folder

Not sure what you mean here...

> There is an issue where it won't close the current window when you 
> delete a message (works for some servers but not others!)
Not sure about this, never experienced but maybe a bug. Is is consistent
which accounts it works/doesn't work for?

> You can't change the subject line for messages that are redirected,
> nor can you do bulk redirection of message

I don't use it, but maybe 'Mail Redirect' Addon does what you want:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mailredirect/

> It sometimes fails to continue checking for new mail in a subfolder 
> until the application restarted (especially if you wander between
> wired and wireless connections)
Yeah, there is a lot of work going on right now for things like this...
the underlying issues are hard to fix (require a lot of work), but it is
actually being addressed now...

I'm just a very long time and happy TB user...