[Bug 275471]

Stevendejong 275471 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Aug 18 07:57:29 UTC 2011


If you think about it, this bug and the way it is dealt with by the
developers is exemplary for the product. It's "major updates" are minor
patches. Who notices the heralded new account wizard as an exising user?
Nobody. Who has problems with inline attachments? Everybody, since
version 0.01 of the product. So let's develop a new account wizard and
mark the inline attachments bug as "RESOLVED INVALID".

Similarly, all the other issues and feature requests I invested time and
effort in on this forum have not been seen as relevant by the
developers. (E.g. the fact that entering and especially copy-pasting or
cutting multiple email addresses from e.g. the To: field is so
ridiculously cumbersome; the fact that the search engine introduced in
TB3 is incredibly slow; the fact that properly layouting HTML emails is
really a pain; the ugly and inconvenient placement of buttons in the
preview pane header; the fact that only new email composition does not
happen in a tab; ...)

I've started contributing bugs and feature requests around version 1.x.
We're now at version 5, five years later at least, and most major
opportunities for improvement have not been addressed. Thunderbird as a
consequence still is an immature product, and given how the developers
prioritize their coding efforts, I'm sure version 8 will give us the 5th
major GUI overhaul and a spectacular New Account Wizard... and it will
still reload IMAP attachments every time you select an email.

I hate to say it as a definite non-fanboy of Apple, but if the TB
developers would take a short look at Apple Mail (even the one in OS X
10.6), they'd notice everything that is wrong with TB. If Apple can do
it, then it must not be too difficult to write a simple yet functional
email program.

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