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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by piecevcake on May 6, 2017 · permalink

Found the options buttons at the bottom of the information page. Description on Github link - " "triple style", which shows a single arrow (›) if a message is sent only to you, a double arrow (») if it is sent to a group and a triple arrow if it is sent to a mailing list."

Triple style works but seems a bit random: single arrow correctly shows up on a first email addressed to me only, double arrows appear on my reply to the sender of that email, (including an unsent draft), and (correctly) to an email to 1 with 2 ccs; triple arrows on an email received addressed to 2 emails and 2 ccs, and (correctly) to emails sent to a large list. Interestingly, only 1 spam message had 3 arrows: a spoof email sent from my own address)
It works with Header Tools Lite and picks up ccs (and my bccs - interested to see if it picks up SENDER bccs?) in its calculations , which is good.
I will continue with it, it is useful.

(When Gmail view is selected (the default), spam, email from me to myself, group and cc'd emails all show 1 angle bracket. (I have catchall mailboxes, as do most domain name owners, they work with the triple style.)
Same result when I sent it to a 1-off email address (not catchall).

Couldn't find how to "add email addresses as identities in thunderbird"? Does this mean have accounts settings set up for each email account (which I have, and the triple style works with that, I wouldnt want the Gmail style anyway)? I have catchalls set up for 2 accounts (each with aliases =different names@my domain name); and 1 email address for each of my other TB accounts.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.7).

by Tammo van Lessen (Developer) on May 6, 2017 · permalink

Did you add all you email addresses as identities in Thunderbird?

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by cloutierjo on Jan. 29, 2014 · permalink

It would be great if it could take into account only the To: field. In my organization almost all our email have at lest our supervisor in CC, but if I'm the only one in the To: field it mean that it's personally addressed to me, while if I'm in the CC field it is not personally to me and should be considered as a group mail.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.7).

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by M.E. on Sept. 22, 2013 · permalink

Update:
According to the description, (>>) should appear only when there are multiple people in the email message and (>>>) should only appear when a mailer group is involved. However, in my use, I see (>>>) not only for mailer but also for non-mailer messages with multiple people listed and see (>>) for the same as well.

Example: email message with say [email protected], [email protected] gets tagges with (>>>), even though there is no mailer group in it. On the other hand email message with mailer group gets tagged with both (>>) and (>>>). Hence the confusion.

So, this is where it not clear how this is suppose to work. May be you can use an example to illustrate these two cases for clarity. Thanks

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.7). This user has a previous review of this add-on.

by Tammo van Lessen (Developer) on Sept. 23, 2013 · permalink

I don't understand what exactly needs to be fixed. What you describe is exactly the intended behavior. The idea of the add on is to make it easier for Thunderbird users to identify important mails. That's why it distinguishes 3 three types of mails, the personal level: Mails only sent to you (usually those are most important), mails sent to you but also to others and then mails that are sent to a list, but not directly to one of your mail addresses.

My understanding of a review is that you rate the add-on against its description, I was hoping the description makes the purpose of the add-on clear enough.

I like the idea with colored arrows, I'll add that as a feature request to the bugtracker.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by -1 on July 12, 2013 · permalink

I have two issues with this extension:

1. The icon displayed is counterintuitive. I would expect the smaller one to indicate that I was the sole receipient, and the larger one to indicate that there were multiple recipients. Obviously.

2. It only supports the default email address for the account. If you receive email at more than one email address (e.g. with a catch-all; domain owners will know what I mean), those email addresses are all ignored.

Edit: I appreciate that the extension supports identities. But why depend on identities at all? If an email has a *single* recipient, why not show a single-recipient icon? Why must the recipient be known to Thunderbird? Couldn't this at least be an option? I use an utter slew of identities, and I receive mail at all of them. Only one of them is an identity known to Thunderbird.