Re: Beagle and Thunderbird

[Eldo Varghese <poningru ufl edu>]

1)No Thunderbird uses mbox,  berkeley mailbox format to be precise.
*http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=berkeley+mailbox

2)I guess that would have to be written into the thunderbird reading 
component.

3)I dont understand your statement, why wouldnt beagle be able to read 
an mbox file when any text editor can read it?

- Eldo
Daniel Drake wrote:
> Eldo Varghese wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be simpler/better to write in mbox support and then extra 
> > things for individual email clients?
>
> No, because:
> 1. Thunderbird uses maildir, not mbox
>
> 2. Thunderbird keeps mail in ~/.thunderbird and beagle does not index 
> hidden directories unless a backend explicitly states that there is 
> data there.
>
> 3. Having mail without context is not very useful; beagle wouldn't 
> know how to open it. So, after searching, you'd have to open 
> thunderbird manually and do that same search again.
>
> More in tune with your question, yes, it is a good idea to implement 
> mail filtering as a general case and then share it between the various 
> mail sources that we have. This already happens, the Mail filter is 
> used by the kmail backend, the evolution backend, and also for lone 
> mail files found on the filesystem.
>
> Daniel