Show full email name after material you

[kkocdko]

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App version

8.0

Problem you are trying to solve

It was like that, I have many mails, I want to know their full name so I can jump to it. After the material you design changes, it is replaced by just 2 letters with a circle as avatar, it is unconvenient for users with many mail.

Suggested solution

allow to unfold to show full email name at one screen

Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details

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[kolAflash]

I've got multiple email addresses on the same domain example.net. And they all show up as EX.
Let's call them foo@example.net (green), bar@example.net (orange), baz@example.net (red) and qux@example.net (blue).

The email addresses on the same domain are only distinguishable by color. A real regression for color blind people.

 

Details

The two letters seem to be taken from this setting inside each email account. It uses the first two letters after the @.
Sending mail -> Manage identities -> Email address
If multiple identities are configured, it's the uppermost one which gets choosen by default when writing a new email.

One could workaround the problem by adding another "pseude identity" at the top of the list. But then this wrong identity would always be chosen when writing mails and you would have to manually select the correct identity each time. So it's a very ugly workaround.

Thunderbird-Android-8.0_two-letter-account-avatar-circles.png

 

Minor fix proposal

As a first step a logic could be added, which only uses the required Email address field of the identity if the optional Identity description is left blank. And if an Identity description is provided, use some letters from it instead. Just thing about parsing the Identity description twice. It may contain none or even more then one @ symbol, because it doesn't have to be a valid email address.
This way users get more flexibility to control which letters show up in the account-cicle.

Although I'd also love to simply see the full email address again as proposed by @kkocdko

 

Related

Related issues:

• Accounts Are Confusing To Navigate From Drawer #8205
• Changing name of mail account does not change the two letters in account chip.  #8381

[madb1lly]

Hi all,

I agree, I find this hugely frustrating, especially because the positions of the icons also change depending on which mailbox I've selected before. I know the names of my email accounts, I shouldn't need to now try and remember a colour instead. Please revert this change or add the option to show full email account name rather than a fixed two letter ID.

Cheers 🙂