Posts tagged with: thunderbird

As with Linux, Firefox and Thunderbird are available for Solaris and OpenSolaris in a variety of forms: supplied with the OS, installed separately from a pkg and installed separately from a tarball (both available from Mozilla.org). Of these, the only way you can get any sort of automatic update is with the first option: via an OS update and this tends to lag behind the available releases by quite some margin. Well, that's about to change, at least for some people. I'll get straight into the technical details and leave the background behind all of this to the very end. This post and the accompanying code was inspired by this article on Mozilla Developer Center. Update: Ooops, it would seem the automatic update DOES work by default for the tarball downloads, it just doesn't offer an automatic upgrade between 3.5.x and 3.6.x as I was testing. I'll leave the rest of this post as is as an "education" for those wanting to implement their own internal crude update system. Continue reading ►

I've been using Thunderbird 3 (I'm currently running one of the 3.1 RC builds so I can use Lightning) for quite some time now without any obvious problems. Some of the new functionality is a bit annoying, like the global search thingy that opens the results in a new tab, but otherwise it's been working well for me. I have however just become aware of a problem which most people wouldn't notice, and I certainly didn't until Oracle started enforcing the quota on my home directory: Thunderbird 3.x is a very very greedy pig when it comes to disk space. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Well, so far so good. I've been using IMAP to access my Gmail for just short of a week now and haven't hit any real problems. Things were a bit slow at first as Thunderbird built the index of the folder contents, but once done, all seems ok. The one thing that did annoy me for a while was Thunderbird wasn't checking all my Gmail folders/labels: it was only checking the Inbox. Continue reading ►

I've been using the Lightning Calendar extension, along with the WCAP extension ('cos we use SJSCS) to access my calendar at work for some time now. I've configured the extension/Thunderbird to remember my calendar login details, added my calendars and all in all it works a treat. However, there is one thing that really started to annoy me. Everytime the session expires, I get this lovely little alert box: Continue reading ►

I use Thunderbird for all my mail needs (except Gmail as it doesn't do IMAP) and there are several capabilities within it's filtering that I wish it had: Regular expression (regex) matching (Bug #: 19442) The ability to pipe a message to a shell command (to determine if email matches) The ability to run a shell command (as an action for matching emails) The ability to change subject of matched emails I cope without these, but having these would save so much time and make my life, particularily at work, so much easier. Continue reading ►