Archive for the ‘Extensions’ Category

Junk management for newsgroups in Thunderbird 3

Wednesday, 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 ...

Javascript filter action in Thunderbird with FiltaQuilla

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

I received an email today asking that I add a feature to FiltaQuilla. Slightly edited, the author said: Something I've found myself doing at work is creating a new filter for every folder I create. I work on technical cases and for each new case number I create a ...

Javascript custom filter action in new FiltaQuilla

Thursday, 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 ...

Combining Thunderbird with SpamAssassin

Friday, 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 ...

TaQuilla 0.3.0 released

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

I've just uploaded a new version of TaQuilla to Mozilla's add-on site. You can download it here. It is still listed as experimental status, so updates are not automatic. Details of the changes in this revision are available here, but briefly it mostly adds some user interface consolidations for consistency, ...