Archive for the ‘Planet MozillaMessaging’ Category
Wednesday, 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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Since I see that checkin errors are fairly common, and a poorly controlled source of potential issues in Mozilla code, I developed my own written process that I follow whenever I do checkins. It's probably over cautious, with a practice checkin locally before I do the real thing, but here ...
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Monday, 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 ...
Posted in Exchange Web Services (EWS), Mailnews development, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging | 7 Comments »
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
A few weeks ago on IRC dmose and I discussed the general issue of how QA communicates priorities to developers. I'd like to hear some comments on that from others, and possibly participate in some sort of trial of improvements.
The issue here is that I see lots of good work ...
Posted in Mailnews development, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging | 3 Comments »
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, ...
Posted in Extensions, Planet MozillaMessaging, TaQuilla | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in Extensions, FiltaQuilla, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
I've been tracking some difficulties in my junk analysis recently, which was caused when I enabled some experimental changes to tokenization. (I added full tokenization of the Received: and x-spam-status: headers). At the same time, I started some experiments where I am automatically training certain incoming emails as good.
What I ...
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Saturday, 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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in Extensions, FiltaQuilla, Mailnews development, Planet MozillaMessaging | 1 Comment »