Archive for the ‘Planet MozillaMessaging’ 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 ...

Thunderbird’s Strategic Dilemma

Thursday, 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 ...

Sending a Message (Mailnews Exchange Support)

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 ...

Data Persistence (Mailnews Exchange Support)

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: ...

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 ...