Re: [Tracker] How to enable the Thunderbird backend?

[Michal Pryc <Michal Pryc Sun COM>]

David Coeurjolly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the patch.. After applying it to the trunk and installing the
> TB extension, I've  restarted the trackerd service excluding the home
> directory to focus on the TB service (trackerd -v 3 -s 0 -e /home/MYLOGIN).
>
>  I obtain :
>
> Thunderbird directory lookup:
> "/home/MYLOGIN/.xesam/ThunderbirdEmails/ToIndex"
> Registering path /home/MYLOGIN/.xesam/ThunderbirdEmails/ToIndex as
> belonging to service ThunderbirdEmails
> Starting email indexing...
> 0 files are pending with count 0
>
> ... and nothing else
>
> The ".xesam" folder does not exist and the TB extension is still turned
> off (red cross on the notification area icon).
>
> Have I forgotten something ?
>   
Hello David,
The way it works:

1. Thunderbird extension is producing the TMS (thunderbird message 
summary) file and places in the .xesam folder. For this the extension 
should be enabled in the Thunderbird.

2. Trackerd is indexing those TMS files, so the data must exists already 
to index something.

3. Trackerd is deleting already indexed file.

You can see that extension and tracker are quite separate, so to use 
both you will need to enable extension (click on the small tracker image 
in the right bottom corner) and start tracker daemon and of course you 
will need to enable Thunderbird indexing in the tracker-preferences.

--
best
Michal Pryc
http://blogs.sun.com/migi