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By rkent, on March 16th, 2010 In the last week, I realized that my Exchange integration project needed another layer in the architecture. Previously, I have discussed a layer that does SOAP calls, and a second layer that extends Mozilla mailnews objects. (Let me call the Mozilla-specific world of mailnews objects MMO “Mozilla mailnews objects” for short). I had thought that I would be able to glue these two layers together through a single method that would send and receive Exchange Web Services (EWS) messages, but that did not work out. The complexity of the data that is returned from EWS is too great to be [...]
By rkent, on March 3rd, 2010 This post is intended mostly as a status update on my effort to add Microsoft Exchange Server support to the Mozilla mailnews products, including Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
In my last report, I was testing and updating the old Mozilla SOAP framework for use in communicating with Exchange Web Services (EWS). Using the framework in a Thunderbird 3.0 environment, I could talk to the BING search SOAP interface. It took a couple of more weeks to resolve issues associated with communicating with EWS. There were a number of features missing from the old Mozilla SOAP, most importantly:
attributes in SOAP elements. [...]
By rkent, on 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 this case the Thunderbird (TB) default filter. Both filters are tuned to never give false positives, with Uncertain emails show in an Uncertain folder that I regularly watch.
In the Thunderbird 3.0 / SeaMonkey 2.0 series, I snuck in a little hidden preference to allow modifications to the way that [...]
By rkent, on February 1st, 2010 I’ve embarked on an effort to investigate adding support for Exchange server to the mailnews code. Although Exchange in Windows has traditionally used port 135-based protocols, my understanding is that the future for them is SOAP-based Exchange Web Services (EWS). As a first step, I wanted to get a basic SOAP library working in current mailnews code.
I considered a variety of approaches to this. One extension “Asertiva Thunderbird Extension for Sugar” uses the IBM/Prototype js library for SOAP access. Others recommended that I consider one of the open source SOAP libraries, such as a python-based library, or Apache’s AXIS2 [...]
By rkent, on 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, plus support for Thunderbird 3.0 and SeaMonkey 2.0.
Frankly, I’ve struggled to find a good personal use of TaQuilla for use in my dogfooding. I’ve tried using it to categorize “interesting” posts, but I can’t even agree myself from day-to-day what is “interesting”, and the soft tagging is even more [...]
By rkent, on 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 save attachments to a folder) this release introduces “custom search terms” for the first time. This is a new feature that has been added recently to the mailnews core code, and is part of the TB 3.0 and SM 2.0 releases.
The search I am talking about is the [...]
By rkent, on November 28th, 2009 What then do I mean by “extension driven development”? It is the concept of changing the way that Thunderbird is developed and distributed, with a bare minimum set of core code, and the main features presented as a set of extensions, shipped with the product, that can be enabled or disabled by users.
I don’t have any illusions that this has a significant chance of being implemented, and I’m not even sure it’s a good idea myself. But I ask you to suspend disbelief for a minute, and imagine a change to the development culture and process.
An email client [...]
By rkent, on November 28th, 2009 ToneQuilla version 1.0.1 has been posted on AMO for review (or is available on this site here.) This fixes a bug reported in the forum, where for some users .wav files were playing in the default media player, instead of using Mozilla’s internal code.
By rkent, on 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 for non-experimental release. Maybe I should quit adding this stuff to FiltaQuilla (which is already pretty large with all of its filter actions) and define a new search-oriented extension, called probably SearchaQuilla?
So far, I have added the following new search terms:
BCC – locate items in the BCC field
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By rkent, on November 16th, 2009 Today I released a version of JunQuilla that supports SeaMonkey 2.0, and the latest versions of Thunderbird including the upcoming 3.0RC1 and 3.0.0 The new version can be downloaded from the AMO site here. I’ve also submitted this version for review so that it can get out of experimental status.
JunQuilla is my attempt to extend the user interface in the Mozilla mailnews product to provide the information that I believe is needed to properly manage the bayesian junk filter. I suppose that most of these features should really be in the core product, but I found that support for [...]
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