Thread pane and nsIMsgDBHdr/nsIMsgDatabase (Mailnews Exchange Support)

By rkent, on May 21st, 2010

Now that I have a state machine to handle situations that need multiple SOAP calls, it was not a big leap forward to hookup the SOAP requests to the mailnews summary database. That’s what gets the messages displayed in Thunderbird’s thread pane.

So here’s a picture to show where I am at. The two messages are real messages that exist on the Exchange server, and have been read by my extension. The message body is not real:

One problem that I had to solve is to make the nsMsgDatabase object extendable. The standard code for [...]

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Category: Exchange Web Services (EWS), Mailnews development, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging | 2 comments

Javascript custom filter action in new FiltaQuilla

By rkent, on May 20th, 2010

I recently released a new version of FiltaQuilla for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, and one of its cool new features is a custom filter action that runs arbitrary JavaScript. This relies on new backend features, so you’ll need TB 3.1 beta2 or later for this to work.

Mitra recently pinged bug 249191 asking for a filter action that affects remote content. That looked like a good application of a javascript filter action, so I tried it out.

Looking at the underlying code in nsMsgContentPolicy.cpp, there is a message header property “remoteContentPolicy” that can be used to enable showing of remote content [...]

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Mailbox state machine (Mailnews Exchange support)

By rkent, on May 10th, 2010

Previously I have described interfaces that allowed me to display Exchange Web Server objects in Thunderbird’s folder tree and account manager. My goal lately has been to display lists of messages in the thread pane. To do that, I have to acquire, store and interface message metadata (the message summary database) to the Mozilla mailnews interfaces.

Unfortunately an issue has loomed too large to ignore: the need to sequence a number of SOAP requests when I need to send multiple requests to meet a single goal. Previously I had simply kludged around this, but I needed to make some decisions [...]

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Category: Exchange Web Services (EWS), Mailnews development, Planet MozillaMessaging | 3 comments