Thunderbird - Customization of "New Message" Button

[sproggit]

Title of Idea may be a little bit misleading as what I'm really looking for is a way to have multiple "New Message" icons in the application window, one for each configured account.

I recently migrated from Claws-Mail to Thunderbird when I needed to add 2FA to my Hotmail accounts, something I could not get working on Claws-Mail. Claws-Mail forces a user to select which account they want to originate a message from by converting their "New Message" button in to a drop-down combo-box...

I have 5 IMAP email addresses linked in to my email client... and for some strange reason, my brain skips over the part in the "New Message" process where I should check which account is set as the originator for a message... and as a result I have a habit of mixing up and sending an email that is related to a company where I'm a director from my personal account, or vice-versa. By default, Thunderbird remembers the last-used account and simply adopts that one, which in my case results in very confused email recipients and, more often than not, an important message going in to the recipient's spam folder...

What I'd like to be able to do is have a custom toolbar in Thunderbird, with one button for each of the Accounts configured in the client, with each button color-coded and custom-labelled, so when I need to start a new mail thread, I can be confident of using the right account.

I'm pretty sure that this would be easy to achieve if, with the configuration/definition of a mailbox in the client, there was an option for, "Dedicated New Message" button? If I select this option, then Thunderbird would simply add an extra "New Message" button that I could customize, say with a label [another parameter] and color [selectable option].

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

[Jon]

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[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

For information purposes

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/07/welcome-to-thunderbird-128-nebula

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Account Color Customization: By popular demand, you can now customize the color of your account icons. These colors also appear in the “From” selection when composing emails, adding a light personal touch to your email experience.

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In addition
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/thunderbird-interface-design-new-message-with-multiple-email/id...
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/thunderbird-interface-design-new-message-with-multiple-email/id...