thunderbird

How can I add a backup to an already existing installation of Thunderbird?

Hello, I recently installed windows 7 on a new HD to use on my pc. I did not emediately installed the backup of my previous thunderbird installation to the new HD, which I have been using for about a couple of months now. Now that I want to move the old messages from the previous installation of thunderbird to the new one I see that al...

How to export/import contacts from/to thunderbird in python

Hi, I'm trying to extract contacts programmaticaly from thunderbird in python. Do you know about anything (library, scripts already done,tutorial...) that can help me? thanks ...

ldap how to for thunderbird address book integration

hi, i'm looking for a how to, to share my adresse book (and contacts) via ldap in thunderbird 3. Not configuring the client but the ldap daemon with its related schemas. thanks, ...

IMAP library - Proxy support

I am writing an application using IMAP support. But the IMAP library that I am using does not support Proxy. Can anyone point me to such an open source library which supports proxy? And what IMAP library Thunderbird is using? I am using "C/C++". ...

php plain text email formats differently in outlook

I'm trying to align some text in a php generated plain text email. Thunderbird displays all characters as the same width. Newer versions of Outlook however do not. Is there some way I can force outlook to use a "fixed-width" font in the headers for instance? Here are the headers I'm currently using Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ut...

Gmail imap filtering

This is not directly programming related. I have a gmail account and set up filters in there. (for different mailing lists). When I download them using IMAP clients they are not filtered and all messages land in my inbox. Is there a way to force gmail to filter before handing them on through imap? Cheers Wolfgang ...

Filemaker 9 with SMTP (or Thunderbird on Mac) for free?

Background: Filemaker Pro 10+ have gained functionality to send emails using SendMail via SMTP. There are expensive (relative to total FileMaker licensing cost) plugins that can do SMTP on FMP earlier than 10, but that investment is not an option. I have set up a network that I'm managing (I'm not mainly a developer) to use Thunderbird...

Why does Thunderbird always return immediately after sending mail through MAPI?

Why does Thunderbird always return immediately after sending mail through MAPI? Other clients, like Outlook Express, returns only when the mail is sent or when the user was cancelled the request. But Thunderbird always return SUCCESS every time. Somebody knows why or knows how to fix it? Thanks in advance. ...

How start with XUL development?

Hi everyone. First of all I need to say that my english is not good. So I sorry for errors in this post. Second, I`m a professional programmer for 2 years. Main programming language is VB.net (that I find somewhat limited when speaking about User Interfaces). I love user interfaces and I really want to be able to create software in...

Is it possible to interop with Thunderbird using C#?

Here's the latest hurdle in my ongoing quest to automate my job: All email in the company goes through 4 different email adresses, switching randomly back and forth (with a note attached in the global share: please set "keep email on server") All logic related to email is contained in a nice big Thunderbird profile, which gets copied b...

Any plans to use Firefox sync in Thunderbird?

I was wondering if there are any plans to use Mozilla Firefox sync in Mozilla Thunderbird? It would be nice if I can sync my mail profile as easy as date in Firefox. ...

Getting started on thunderbird extensions

Hello there,       I have beein using Tunderbird for many years now and now i am interested in developing some of my own extensions.       I looked over the documentation on their official website but found little suport for getting started at this.       I have some experience with python, perl, php and would like if you can...

Adding custom controls to Thunderbird (Extension)

I need to add a button next to From tag in the messege header. Anyone knows how to do this? ...

Thunderbird scripting

I need to process a number of messages in my Thunderbird.app (Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Intel Core 2 Duo), delete a few based on some criteria, export some others, move a small part of them to a special folder and create a filing hierarchy to go with it all - programmatically. With Outlook I used to enjoy VBScript + the COM object model: it...

thunderbird how to apply a folder view to other folders (like evolution)

How does one save a 'view' in thunderbird and then have that applied to other folders (nested and not nested) ? a bit like evolution and outlook? For the life of me, i can't find this in my version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100528 Thunderbird/3.0.5 thanks, ...

Thunderbird - prefer text/plain attachment to text/html attachment?

Hi, Is there a way to have Thunderbird prefer the text/plain attachment to a text/html attachment when both are available in a message? Here's my problem... I want to view the output of my cron jobs as plain text. I have Thunderbird configured to use a monospace font for plain text emails. However, somebody (I suspect my Exchange serv...

Change date format of Thunderbird

Hi there, Does anyone know how to change the date format thunderbird uses from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy? Regards Paul ...

Programming thunderbird Email Client?

Anyone has C#/Ruby/Python/Java or Perl scripts to get all the emails in a folder in Thunderbird client and download all the attachments? I have more than 200 resumes as attachment kept in Resumes folder of thunderbird and I need to download the attachment and categories them. Any API reference to program thunderbird would be great.. I ...

how do I set a Thunderbird signature to use a dynamic url's html?

I want to use a dynamic email signature in Thunderbird, that is context aware (depends on date, events in db, etc.) If I have a PHP that can generate the signature html (i.e. http://www.site.com/email_sign.php) how do I force Thunderbird to use it? (the only options I see are using static html (whether inline, of from a local system ...

Issue with Lighting 1.0b2 with thunderbird 3.1.2

When some one sends invitation I can see the invitation but the accept/decline button doesn't appear. I am using Thunderbird-3.1.2 with Lightning-1.0b2 on ubuntu 9.10. Would be really thankful if someone could give the soln. ...