Re: [Tracker] Planned support: Mozilla apps as well?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:36 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2007/4/5, Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com>:
> > Il giorno mar, 03/04/2007 alle 23.37 -0400, Anthony Yarusso ha scritto:
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> > > I see that e-mail indexing in Evolution is already available in SVN,
> > > and that contacts, appointments, and tasks are all planned, with no
> > > application specified.  I was hoping you would add Mozilla Thunderbird
> > > e-mails and contacts, and Lightning (calendar) appointments and tasks
> > > to those included, if technically feasible.  Beagle can do TB e-mails,
> > > not sure about the rest, but it took them a while.  Does anyone have
> > > thoughts on this?
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> >
> > The main plan is to support Thunderbird ASAP the version 2.0 is
> > released. The reason is the new thunderbird will use a new way to handle
> > all the e-mails in a more index friendly way. (More or less)
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> Thunderbird currently uses "Mork" [1] as db storage for its emails.
> Some consider Mork to be the most braindead file format ever conceived.
> There are plans to replace Mork with something more sane [2], yet I'm
> using TB 2.0 beta2 and it still uses Mork, so I'm not sure if this
> will happen for the final 2.0 release.


I would not like to commit to doing a mork parser - if anyone has the
time and inclination then feel free (porting over beagles mork parser
might be a good start)