Archive for the ‘FiltaQuilla’ Category

FiltaQuilla 1.0.0 released, adds custom search terms

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Well I finally decided to quit adding new stuff, and just get a compatible FiltaQuilla out the door that works with Thunderbird 3.0 and SeaMonkey 2.0. You can get the new version from Mozilla's download site here. In addition to some new filter actions (print, add sender to address list, and ...

Maybe I need a search extension – SearchaQuilla?

Friday, November 20th, 2009

The last few weeks I've been adding custom search terms to my FiltaQuilla extension using the new nsIMsgSearchCustomTerm interface, which can then be used in searches, virtual folders, or filters. But I keep coming up with new things that I want to do. That delays my packaging of FiltaQuilla 1.0.0 ...

Inherited Folder Properties – revisited

Friday, November 6th, 2009

In a previous posting, I introduced the concept of inherited folder properties in the Mozilla mailnews products (Thunderbird and SeaMonkey). In the months since, I have incorporated these into my extensions quite significantly, so here I would like to show the UI I am currently using for this, and also ...

Extension status for Thunderbird 3.0 beta 3 (and Seamonkey 2.0 beta 1)

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I've just bumped the allowable Thunderbird (and where applicable Seamonkey) version on my extensions to allow them to work with the new version numbers in the nightlies and release candidates. I had hoped to have new releases available by now, but have not yet done that. Major changes are planned for ...

Filtering changes for Thunderbird 3.0 beta 3

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

It's been a long time since I posted a blog, being busy with things I wanted to get into Thunderbird 3.0 beta 3 (and Seamonkey 2.0 beta 1). Now that we enter the dark days of the freeze prior to the release, I have some time to update extensions to ...

Updated ToneQuilla, FiltaQuilla, and JunQuilla posted

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Recently I posted new versions of ToneQuilla, FiltaQuilla, and JunQuilla to mozilla's addons site that support Thunderbird 3 beta 2, and Seamonkey 2 alpha 3 (SM is not supported in JunQuilla). In addition to version support, extensions have these changes: ToneQuilla mostly gets an important bug fix to stop playing from ...

Extension plans for Thunderbird beta2

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Now that Thunderbird beta2 has entered slushy code freeze, it's time to update my extensions to match. Here's my plans, which I will try to accomplish near the time that beta 2 releases (currrently scheduled for 2009-02-24): ToneQuilla The published version has a bug that interrupts the playing in some cases. I'll ...

Controlling notification with filters

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Today I will write in a more practical direction, describing how to setup Thunderbird with MesQuilla extensions to control notification. Under stock Thunderbird, notification of arriving emails (sometimes called BIFF) may be controlled in two ways - and both of these are system-wide settings. These features are controlled from the General/Options ...

FiltaQuilla now available on AMO

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

I've now done an initial release of FiltaQuilla, a Thunderbird/Seamonkey extension to provide a number of filter actions that have been requested by various users. These actions are: Launch a file in the operating system Remove Star Remove a Keyword Suppress Biff notification Append text to the subject Mark message Unread Mark message replied Copy the message to ...