Should have better support for GNOME Online Accounts

[Wise Melon]

I think that it would be really good if Thunderbird had proper support for GNOME Online Accounts.

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130227155259

Steps to reproduce:

I configured my Google account in GNOME Online Accounts.

Actual results:

Nothing.

Expected results:

Thunderbird should have automatically created an IMAP account for my GMail address, configured my contacts and my Google Calendar from my Google accounts.

[U552789 (u552789)]

Yes, I think as well that Thunderbird should have better and proper support for GNOME Online Accounts.

[Ryan Lee Sipes (ryanleesipes)]

This could actually be a great way to engage with Linux users, and would go a long way towards making Thunderbird a viable candidate for returning to being the defacto Linux mail app.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Wise,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Gnome online accounts and Thunderbird. You made this bug report in 2016 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

gf, this is a triaged wishlist bug. The apport information isn't necessary here.

[Mozilla-bugzilla-h (mozilla-bugzilla-h)]

I also would enjoy being able to have such an integration, it would offer a more consistent user experience for Linux / Gnome users.

[Mathieu (mbousq)]

Any news if that feature would be on the roadmap for future releases ? thx!

[Paulo Peixoto (paulogdpeixoto)]

I was forced to switch from thunderbird to evolution a couple of years ago, as I have one email account in an microsoft AD environment with a username in the following form: [domain]\[user], and the only way to login is through gnome online accounts, which evolution supports, but sadly, thunderbird does not.

Please consider adding this functionality.

[Bastiaan Wakkie (bwakkie)]

I think it is about time this will be resolved.

It stop(s/ed) me from using Thunderbird.

Please integrate with Gnome ones and for all. (online accounts, calendar, todo)

[warmaster (federicomenoyo)]

Lost all hope when I saw this issue is already 10 years old.

[Yorgos Bos (superpuffin)]

Just posting in hopes to revive this old issue. This feuture seems like such a low hanging fruit to me.... :(

[Aristo-hadisoeganda (aristo-hadisoeganda)]

Been 10 years, It seems that this feature is not part of developers' todo list. :(

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

The entire staff focus for the last 12 months has been Supernvova version 115 (which brings improvements for **all** platforms) and will continue to be so through September. This bug will be evaluated after September, if no statement has been posted by then.

[Github-v (github-v)]

I used Thunderbird for many years but grudgingly switched to Evolution awhile back because of this issue. IMHO, contacts and calendar sync should be considered an essential, core functionality for any application that manages contacts and calendars. Evolution's user interface is clunky as heck, but at least I don't have to pull out my phone every time I want to look up an email address.

Supernova looks great, but I think it's time to seriously focus developer attention on this issue. It's really way past due. If someone on the Mozilla team wanted to create fundraiser specifically earmarked for the development costs of implementing this feature, I'd happily contribute to that.

[Thatoo (thatoo)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #10)
> The entire staff focus for the last 12 months has been Supernvova version 115 (which brings improvements for **all** platforms) and will continue to be so through September. This bug will be evaluated after September, if no statement has been posted by then.

Hello,
Any news on the evaluation that happen in last September?

[Vseerror-i (vseerror-i)]

Thanks for asking.

gnome accounts is a feature that the core team will not develop, but we’re happy to take patches from contributors.

More generally, better OS integration in general is something we will review around the end of the year but we need to scope it and be methodical on what we want to support.

[Lennart-a (lennart-a)]

I just switched from Geary to Thunderbird because Geary is not sending emails reliably for me and the new Thunderbird 115 looks and feels great. I was looking though for this exact feature. I do agree with the speakers before me that this is such an integral feature of an email application that used to be the standard on Linux desktop. Gnome and KDE are the two biggest platforms, of them Gnome is from my knowledge even a bit bigger. The only accounts feature is right there, why not integrate Thunderbird with it? I have my Nextcloud, MS email and work email (exchange) already linked in Gnome, as many others will have too for sure. It would be such a great feature to have them loaded automatically into Firefox. I really think this issue should be prioritised higher and I feel the the fact that this request is 11 years old and people are still commenting here supports that.

[Ludek (lusmo)]

I was just trying to switch to Thunderbird and found that there is no integration with Gnome Online accounts.
If Thunderbird is the default email application in Fedora, it's a bug that it doesn't have this integration. And the fact that he hasn't had it for so many years is really a bad disappointment.
It would certainly help Thunderbird.
However, similar to other (once famous) Mozilla applications, they will probably be overtaken by newly created applications that will be faster, more flexible, more customizable and modern looking.
It is very sad.