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By rkent, on April 12th, 2010 I’ve just completed a two-week hiatus from my work on Exchange Web Services (EWS) integration project to focus on fixing a few filter issues in mailnews core (Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) prior to TB’s 3.1 feature freeze. I will now return to EWS as my primary focus. But before I do, I think it would be useful to give an overview of some big-picture issues in filter and traditional search (which are closely related), providing something resembling a roadmap but without any real commitment by anyone to move forward.
Mailnews Traditional Filter and Search – Big Issues for Enhancements 1. Integrate [...]
By rkent, on March 25th, 2010 I set a goal for myself a few weeks ago to perform a single vertical slice through my Mailnews Exchange Support project, focusing on displaying Microsoft Exchange folders in the Thunderbird folderpane. I have now filled in the missing glue from the architecture in my last post, and have my first display of Exchange Web Services (EWS) objects in the Thunderbird user interface.
The account “rkent@caspia.org” is an Exchange account, and is finding the standard first-level Exchange folders – including some like “Calendar” and “Contacts” that I suppose should be suppressed here, and shown instead in their correct location in [...]
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 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 it is in case anyone else is interested. This is my actual text, with little massaging for general audiences:
==== Check tinderbox for current checkin status and burns
(cd pristine/src) [This is a directory containing a clone of comm-central from mozilla] hg pull –u
(cd mozpush/src) [This is a directory [...]
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 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 going on by people who are mostly involved in QA, such as wsmwk, WADA, and Ludo, but I as a developer don’t really know how to make the best use of that work.
I assume there is supposed to be a waterfall here, from (bug reporter)->(QA)->(developer)->(code reviewer)->(bug landing). I [...]
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 [...]
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