Junk management for newsgroups in Thunderbird 3

By rkent, on July 21st, 2010

Thunderbird since version 3 has had experimental support for junk filtering in newsgroups. The feature basically works fine, but the user interface mostly fights against your attempts to use it. I’d like to give brief instructions here for anyone who wants to try it.

You’ll need to install my addon JunQuilla to enable one critical piece of user interface. JunQuilla supports a folder property that lets you selectively enable or disable junk processing for a tree of folders. So after you’ve installed JunQuilla, enable processing of junk for a newsgroup:

This will run future posts sent to [...]

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Thunderbird’s Strategic Dilemma

By rkent, on July 15th, 2010

In a recent tb-planning post, neandr wrote:

With all respect for the people working at Mozilla/Thunderbird and fully understand the limitation they are faced with, I would like to see a more detailed mission statement for the products (TB/LG) and the future of it. Only expressing TB is for individual users, SOHO and not for the Enterprise is a very vague  statement

I was going to respond to that in the thread, but I got wordy so I posted this blog entry instead.

At the recently completed Mozilla Summit, variations of this request were made by many people that are [...]

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Sending a Message (Mailnews Exchange Support)

By rkent, on July 15th, 2010

I can now send a message through Exchange server from my Thunderbird installation.

Perhaps it would be interesting to show how I hooked into the sending function in the user interface. I asked the usual suspects, and it was not clear to anyone that it could be done without adding backend hooks – which I would like to avoid as much as possible to increase my chances of getting some initial alphas of this released to work with existing TB 3.1 users.

It turned out to be fairly straight forward. In MsgComposeCommands.js there is an observer notification that occurs, called [...]

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