ToneQuilla version 1.0.1 has been posted on AMO for review (or is available on this site here.) This fixes a bug reported in the forum, where for some users .wav files were playing in the default media player, instead of using Mozilla’s internal code.
The company I work for recently switched from Thunderbird to Postbox as Postbox offers a a better interface and a few key features (proper message renaming!) that we cannot live without.
The problem is none of the sound add-ons like ToneQuilla have been ported to Postbox. This sound like a pretty quick and easy process so I was wondering if you’d consider it? A number of our employees have 4-5 accounts they monitor and we really need to be able to have unique sounds play for some incoming mail. It’d be a HUGE help to us, and I know a lot of the other Postbox users want it too. Thanks so much!
The issue with this is that ToneQuilla (and indeed all of my addons) rely on backend features that were added to the Thunderbird 3.0 and later codebase. Postbox however was initially forked from Thunderbird 2.0 which does not include those features. I did a check of Postbox some months ago, and did not see any evidence that the needed backend features existed.
There is a very easy test that you can do to see if the needed features are supported. In PostBox, open the Error Console. On the “Code” line, enter the following:
Components.interfaces.nsIMsgFilterCustomAction
and press Evalute. If this is defined (and therefore support for ToneQuilla is possible) then you will see the message “nsIMsgFilterCustomAction” printed. If not defined, nothing is shown. You might also try this with the phrase “Components.interfaces.nsIMsgFilter” which will print out “nsIMsgFilter” in Postbox if done correctly, just to convince yourself that what you re doing is correct.