Re: Thunderbird Backend

[Pierre Östlund <pierre ostlund gmail com>]

Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:47 +0200, Pierre �tlund wrote:
>   
> > I've spent some time lately working on a Thunderbird backend for beagle. 
> > Most of the basic stuff works, but it needs hard testing and some more 
> > work until it's ready for mainstream. So, that's why I've decided to 
> > release the source code to get some input.
> >     
>
> Dude, this is totally awesome!
>
>   

Thanks!
> > What's not supported (or not working correctly):
> > * New mails downloaded _after_ index is done, are not indexed until 
> > beagle is restarted
> >     
>
> This should be fairly straightforward with inotify.
>
>   
Yes, this is pretty much the case but with one exception. When a 
mork-file (*.msf) is modified/created/deleted, you have to associate it 
with the correct account. All this information is available in the 
pref.js file found in $HOME/.thunderbird/<random name>.default. No 
biggie, I'll try figure that one out later today.
> > * Attachments are indexed, but you can't open them
> >     
>
> This is also the case for Evolution.  For these, I think it's sufficient
> to just open the mailer to the email that contains the attachment.  (And
> although it's an extra step to extract it, it's beneficial because it
> gives the context the attachment was sent in)
>   
Yeah, probably the best way to go. I'll work some on this when I got 
some more information about the URL schemes.

Thanks!

Pierre