Thunderbird backend project: finished, call for testing

["D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>]

Hi all,
  For those who are not following the planet-beagle blog, Pierre has
finished the Thunderbird backend (one of the 2007 Google Summer of
Code projects). It can index Thunderbird emails and rss feeds. It was
a complete rewrite and totally different from the earlier thunderbird
backend which had to be disabled due to memory issues. I hear gossips
that this one runs extremely smooth with no unusual memory issues. Of
course, more testing with complicated setups and a large number of
emails will verify the claim.

  The code has been checked into the svn trunk. If you are willing to
test, 'svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/beagle/trunk/beagle' and
follow the build instructions from
http://beagle-project.org/Installing_Beagle. The thunderbird backend
consists of a traditional beagle backend and a Thunderbird-2.0.0.x
extension. You will need the Thunderbird development files (usually
called [mozilla-]thunderbird-dev in most distributions) to build the
extension. If these files are present, the build system will
automatically enable the backend.

  Read http://postlund.org/category/beagle/ for more details on the
making of the backend and its internal details. Send comments/bug
reports to the bugzilla/here.

Thanks in advance for testing :) and thanks Pierre for the backend.

- dBera

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Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com
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