Comment 159 for bug 275471

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.