thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Quick Filters and Email Actions
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Since Apr 29, 2025.
type: enhancement
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- Kotlin
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Description
🎯 The objective
The goal of this project is to allow the user to quickly filter the message list using certain message attributes.
Examples:
- Read state
- Star state
- Whether or not an attachment is present
🎒 Resources
- https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/5447 (some interesting notes)
- https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/8821 (interesting use case)
- https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/7324 (accessibility use case - explicit refresh button)
🦮 Rules of the Road
🟢 In Scope
- Subset of the quick filter actions you’d also see on desktop
- Bring more common actions in closer reach to the users's fingers.
🔴 Out of Scope
- TODO
Cross-Functional Tasks
🎨 Design
- Design message view actions
- User research on commonly used actions
- Competitive analysis
🤝 Support - Product
- Update SUMO articles as needed in case screenshots needs to change
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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