Mailnews Exchange Support: Account Manager

By rkent, on April 21st, 2010

To ease my transition back into ews after getting my brain all wrapped around filters for awhile, I thought I would tackle something that is mostly internal to the mailnews code. So I took on the task of getting a basic custom Account Manager interface up for the exchange web services account type.

The account manager interface was apparently written by an ancient advanced intelligence (oops I mean here), that used mysterious technologies that are no longer understood by humankind. Renowned cybernetic archaeologist Joshua Cranmer has tried to unravel some of its mysteries, but that provided me more of a [...]

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What Filters Need

By rkent, on April 12th, 2010

I’ve just completed a two-week hiatus from my work on Exchange Web Services (EWS) integration project to focus on fixing a few filter issues in mailnews core (Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) prior to TB’s 3.1 feature freeze. I will now return to EWS as my primary focus. But before I do, I think it would be useful to give an overview of some big-picture issues in filter and traditional search (which are closely related), providing something resembling a roadmap but without any real commitment by anyone to move forward.

Mailnews Traditional Filter and Search – Big Issues for Enhancements 1. Integrate [...]

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