Thunderbird knows a lot about your email. After all, it’s got access to large amounts of data, and builds sophisticated databases so that it can be very responsive, even when dealing with large folders containing thousands of messages. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use this information to extract either faster workflow, or even [...]
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Getting insight into one’s own email
Thunderbird knows a lot about your email. After all, it’s got access to large amounts of data, and builds sophisticated databases so that it can be very responsive, even when dealing with large folders containing thousands of messages. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use this information to extract either faster workflow, or even [...]
Downtown East Side: one week in
We’ve recently moved the Mozilla Messaging offices, for a variety of reasons, to our cool new digs. Partially so I have something to look back in a few months, I thought I’d write down my thoughts about the new space and neighborhood. The office itself is pretty much what I was hoping it would be. [...]
Thunderbird Quality Project, one year in
Ludovic posted on QMO about the results after one year of Thunderbird bug days. The chart is impressive. Sincere thanks to Gary, Wayne, Ludovic, and everyone else who jumps in to help. In related news, apparently there’s a 2-for-1 sale on bug help.
Thunderbird 3 beta 2
On the road to Thunderbird 3, another milestone — this time, Thunderbird 3 beta 2. Why do beta releases? Beta releases are funny things. They serve a few purposes. The first is to make sure that we periodically stabilize the code base, as without periodic ‘cooling’, it’s hard to get a handle on the quality [...]
overheard
roe_: wow, the bug fix list on rumblingedge is impressive. Congratz on the great work Standard8: roe_: thank you (on behalf of everyone) Right on.
Lightning-in-Thunderbird status update
For some time, we (the Thunderbird release-drivers) have been exploring how to best integrate calendar functionality into Thunderbird. Time for an update. The current plan is to work with the Lightning Add-on community to make a version of it available as an add-on to Thunderbird 3 after we ship later this year. This is a [...]
FOSDEM 2009 slides
Just so I don’t forget, here are my slides from FOSDEM. I’m hoping to find some time to write my thoughts about the conference, but that’s not going to happen today. I had some really good conversations after the talk, so it seemed to at least be interesting to people, which was the main goal.
It's Friday: Goofy but fascinating Thunderbird Add-ons day
Two different and equally goofy but interesting add-ons are in my personal news today: Kent James released ToneQuilla, which I like to call “BiffTones!”, which allows you to set custom notification tones based on Thunderbird rules. Emails from the spouse make one sound, emails from the grandmother make another, etc. Neat! Andrew Sutherland, on somewhat [...]
It’s Friday: Goofy but fascinating Thunderbird Add-ons day
Two different and equally goofy but interesting add-ons are in my personal news today: Kent James released ToneQuilla, which I like to call “BiffTones!”, which allows you to set custom notification tones based on Thunderbird rules. Emails from the spouse make one sound, emails from the grandmother make another, etc. Neat! Andrew Sutherland, on somewhat [...]
