Re: Beagle and Thunderbird

[Gorka Navarrete García <gorkang gmail com>]

If I'm not wrong, in this website u can find the Thunderbird (at least 
Mozilla's Mail) APIs (sort of...).

http://xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/group_Mail.html

I guess what you are asking for should be there... but honestly, I don't 
know what I'm talking about.
D Bera wrote:

> I did a quick google search on thunderbird and couldnt find any way to
> open a particular mail in thunderbird. Specifically
> 1) How to uniquely specify a particular mail in thunderbird's mail-store
> 2) Given that unique "uri", how to open that mail using thunderbird.
> Since GDS, CDS,  YDS and MSN (with a plugin) indexes thunderbird
> mails, they must be doing something to open particular emails from
> search results. Any information on that part of the magic will be
> extremely helpful.
>
> On 11/21/05, Gorka Navarrete García <gorkang gmail com> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had a short conversation a few days ago with Daniel Drake in #dashboard
> > about why there is no Thunderbird backend for beagle yet.
> >
> > Roughly he told me that (sorry Daniel if this is not 100% accurate):
> > -apparently thunderbird does not provide a nice way of opening a specific
> > email via the command line
> > -the database format (msf files) is hard to parse
> >
> > So I went to the Thunderbird forums and asked about that:
> > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1891642
> >
> > And mscott, the main Thunderbird developer answer was: "Copernico and GDS
> > integrated with thunderbird using our APIs, no mork parsing required. Seems
> > like beagle should be able to do the same thing."
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't have the skill to do such a thing but I thought it
> > was a good idea to share these with you guys.
> >
> > Best
> >
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