Archive for the ‘Mailnews development’ Category
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 ...
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Thursday, 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 ...
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
My project to provide Exchange Web Services (EWS) support to applications based on the Mozilla mailnews codebase entered a new phase this week, where I am starting to consider the issue of local persistence of data downloaded from the server. (In the previous week, I got two other things working: ...
Posted in Exchange Web Services (EWS), Mailnews development, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging | 8 Comments »
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
In my last post, I thought it was going to be tricky to get the message header to display in my Thunderbird Exchange Web Services extension. Turned out it wasn't so hard after all. After I display the body, I just had to pretend like I was the Mime processor, ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
Just as a status update, my Exchange Server extension can now read message bodies. But note that there is no header information displayed with the message:
Why no header information? Because the header summary, for reasons that I cannot explain, reads the message file directly - and assumes that the message ...
Posted in Exchange Web Services (EWS), Mailnews development, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging | 7 Comments »