Combining Thunderbird with SpamAssassin

By rkent, on February 12th, 2010

For anyone who gets lots of spam mail, I typically recommend that their anti-spam management plan must consist of a multi-stage process. A common open source solution to that (and the one that I use personally) is a server-based SpamAssassin (SA) front end, followed by a client-based bayes filter, in this case the Thunderbird (TB) default filter. Both filters are tuned to never give false positives, with Uncertain emails show in an Uncertain folder that I regularly watch.

In the Thunderbird 3.0 / SeaMonkey 2.0 series, I snuck in a little hidden preference to allow modifications to the way that [...]

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My uber-cautious checkin procedure

By rkent, on February 10th, 2010

Since I see that checkin errors are fairly common, and a poorly controlled source of potential issues in Mozilla code, I developed my own written process that I follow whenever I do checkins. It’s probably over cautious, with a practice checkin locally before I do the real thing, but here it is in case anyone else is interested. This is my actual text, with little massaging for general audiences:

==== Check tinderbox for current checkin status and burns

(cd pristine/src) [This is a directory containing a clone of comm-central from mozilla] hg pull –u

(cd mozpush/src) [This is a directory [...]

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Toward mailnews Exchange Web Services support: SOAP calls

By rkent, on February 1st, 2010

I’ve embarked on an effort to investigate adding support for Exchange server to the mailnews code. Although Exchange in Windows has traditionally used port 135-based protocols, my understanding is that the future for them is SOAP-based Exchange Web Services (EWS). As a first step, I wanted to get a basic SOAP library working in current mailnews code.

I considered a variety of approaches to this. One extension “Asertiva Thunderbird Extension for Sugar” uses the IBM/Prototype js library for SOAP access. Others recommended that I consider one of the open source SOAP libraries, such as a python-based library, or Apache’s AXIS2 [...]

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