Re: Thunderbird Backend

["Kevin Kubasik" <qub333 gmail com>]

Super awesome!! I had an almost-working backend but did little with
mork. Im in disney world sans laptop for the rest of the week, (wap on
phone) but i had an almost- complete imap url scheme implementation.
When i get back i'll post it to the list. (it doesn't handle
sub-folders yet but that should be an easy addition)


-kevin kubasik

On 4/11/06, Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:47 +0200, Pierre Östlund 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!
>
> > As you all know by now, Thunderbird's using Mork as it's file format to
> > store some basic information about mails in your different mailboxes.
> > This information is very limited and you won't get very far with it. In
> > order to perform a "full index" you'll have to download all mails to
> > your harddrive. This is default behavior when using POP3. IMAP on the
> > other hand, does not. You will have to enable the option: "Make the
> > messages in my Inbox available when I am working offline" in order to
> > get a "full index". If you don't do this, only some basic information
> > stored in the Mork database-file can be indexed (subject, sender, date
> > and some other things). You can enable this option at: Edit->Account
> > Settings...->Offline & Disk Space->Offline. If a mail for some reason
> > can't be fully indexed, partial index (information in the mork-file)
> > will be used as fallback. No need to worry.
>
> This is also how the Evolution IMAP backend works.  Any time a message
> is viewed (or downloaded for offline mode) a locally cached copy is
> saved.  Beagle tries to index those if they're available, otherwise it
> just indexes the summary data.
>
> In short, I think this is absolutely the right approach.
>
> > 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.
>
> > * 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)
>
> > I guess that's the information needed for now. The patch is available in
> > the bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323065). It
> > works fine with HEAD and version 0.2.4. Comments? Should I continue my
> work?
>
> I haven't looked at the code yet, but I think you're on the right track.
> I'll check out the code tomorrow.
>
> Thanks!
> Joe
>
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Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik
http://blog.kubasik.net/