If I could write plugins, here are the plugins I’d plug in. Instead, I’m just pluggin’ for them:

1. When I want to put someone’s address in the body of a msg, I frequently will type that address into one of the “To” slots in order to use Thunderbird’s convenient auto-fill capability. But, all too often, I moronically forget to delete the person’s name from the To slot and end up sending it to her. I did that just the morning. So, I’d like to be able to select some text in the body of a msg and tell Thunderbird to do its auto-fill thing on it.

2. I’m waiting for a site to send me an authorization link. It’s taking a while. I’m afraid the msg has gotten filtered. So, I’d like to be able to tell Thunderbird to let through the next message that comes from a particular site or has a particular word in its subject or body. In fact, it should flag that message by coloring it, or beeping, or something. The dialog box that lets me flag a msg should let me indicate that I want only the next msg that meets the criteria to get through or that I want a permanent exception made. (Of course, a permanent exception is really just a new rule, so I could create a filter rule to do this.)

Thank you. [Tags: thunderbird plugins wishlist lazyweb]

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