304495 - improve user experience

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Linda Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Let me start by saying how much I like Thunderbird overall.  For brevity, I
suggest the following:  1)  allow user to specify a time period for automatic
message retrieval (instead of having to initiate it each time); 2) it is VERY
inconvenient to retrieve msgs, process those msgs, and then have later
retrievals mixed in with previously processed msgs; 3) need preference that
allows, if I click to open a msg, the images are automatically displayed; 4)
Outlook had an optional navigator at left of screen to quickly select other
windows within the pgm (i.e. I could go to "Sent Items" without having to scroll
down past my entire list of folders to get to the button for previously sent
items; 5) when printing, the header of the email prints in normal text and
readability; however the text of the msg prints as if it had been "grayed out"
and is too light.

Reproducible: Always




Please feel free to contact me if additional info is needed.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Please only one issue per bug report and please search for existing bugs before.

1) works (check for new msg every xx min)
3) works if you show the images inline

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1)allow user to specify a time period for automatic
> message retrieval (instead of having to initiate it each time)

tools|account settings|server settings|"check for new messages every .."


Linda, Marking this bug invalid not in any way as a criticism of your
suggestions, but 2, 4, 5 should be filed as seperate bugs (if you find they are
not duplicates
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/beginning-duplicate-finding.html )

In new bugs be sure to provide detail, eg step by step examples, screen shots -
anything that will help better visualize your suggestion. See
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html