Re: Possible Thunderbird Backend

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

From my rooting around, I have still been unable to extract or locate
how the number variable is determined. If someone wants to give me a
hand, once we find where that number comes from, its easy from there.

Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik

On 3/22/06, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:
> > I know this has been brought up several times in the past, and has
> > generally been rejected, but I have managed to dig up an interesting
> > (and relevant) tidbit.
> >
> > Thunderbird does support a URL scheme to open mails from the command
> > line. Most of this was me poking around random code/irc but lo and
> > behold the Thunderbird URL scheme.
> >
> > mozilla-thunderbird
> > mailbox:///home/kevin/.mozilla-thunderbird/3982yzw2.default/Mail/Local\
> > Folders/Sent?number=4614
> >
> > (My sample, IMAP is 10 times harder, but it seems doable)
> >
> > It basically references the file directly, and then includes the
> > message number/id (I don't have any specific terminology on this)
> >
> > My issue to date has been determining the message ID based upon the
> > mbox file. I plan on continuing my search, but I wanted to share what
> > I had for anyone who wanted to help etc.
>
> Wonderful discovery ! The count or the id (generally the id for mbox message
> is the first line of the message saying "From ...", _not_ the header "From:")
> can be used to create the uris. Modulo some details, its pretty much
> copy/pasting from the evo-mail backend to get a thunderbird backend. (Details
> like deletion of messages etc. can be handled later).
>
> Dont use thunderbird myself ... anybody good at pattern
> matching/copy-pasting :) ?
>
> - dBera
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Debajyoti Bera @ http://dbera.blogspot.com
> beagle / KDE fan
> Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user
>


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Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik
http://blog.kubasik.net/