MailFerret - Revision history

Woozle: /* Notes */ re-org; Intertwingle

2007-05-04T21:57:17Z

Notes: re-org; Intertwingle

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	* Scripting extensions (like what Gimp has), triggerable by events: on receipt of mail, on deletion of mail, on use of filter, on calendar/timer event...		* Scripting extensions (like what Gimp has), triggerable by events: on receipt of mail, on deletion of mail, on use of filter, on calendar/timer event...
	==Notes==		==Notes==
	~~Some explanation of why the mbox format is so effed-up~~:		* Relevant articles by Jamie Zawinski:
	* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html Configuring Netscape Mail On Unix: Why the Content-Length Format is Bad] ~~by Jamie Zawinski~~		** [http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html Configuring Netscape Mail On Unix: Why the Content-Length Format is Bad]: Some explanation of why the mbox format is so effed-up:
	* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mid.html Recommendations for generating Message IDs] ~~by Jamie Zawinski~~		** [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mid.html Recommendations for generating Message IDs]
	* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html mail summary files] ~~by Jamie Zawinski~~ includes some warnings about using databases for mail storage -- but mainly as regards summary files, in the context of a project which already had very highly-optimized code for managing summary files being de-optimized by using a database instead (overkill/bloat). This also may explain some of the "email client design mindset" which results in annoyances persisting across clients from different authors.		** [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html mail summary files] includes some warnings about using databases for mail storage -- but mainly as regards summary files, in the context of a project which already had very highly-optimized code for managing summary files being de-optimized by using a database instead (overkill/bloat). This also may explain some of the "email client design mindset" which results in annoyances persisting across clients from different authors.
			** [http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/misc/199805/intertwingle.html Intertwingle]: an idea for an application which has a lot in common with what I want MailFerret to do (and may have some ideas I hadn't thought of)

Woozle: /* Notes */ Zawinsky: mail summary files

2007-05-04T21:28:23Z

Notes: Zawinsky: mail summary files

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	* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html Configuring Netscape Mail On Unix: Why the Content-Length Format is Bad] by Jamie Zawinski		* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html Configuring Netscape Mail On Unix: Why the Content-Length Format is Bad] by Jamie Zawinski
	* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mid.html Recommendations for generating Message IDs] by Jamie Zawinski		* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mid.html Recommendations for generating Message IDs] by Jamie Zawinski
			* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html mail summary files] by Jamie Zawinski includes some warnings about using databases for mail storage -- but mainly as regards summary files, in the context of a project which already had very highly-optimized code for managing summary files being de-optimized by using a database instead (overkill/bloat). This also may explain some of the "email client design mindset" which results in annoyances persisting across clients from different authors.

Woozle: some tech notes from Zawinski

2007-05-04T21:18:23Z

some tech notes from Zawinski

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			==Navigation==
	[[Woozle]]: [[Woozle's Projects\|Projects]]: [[{{PAGENAME}}]]		[[Woozle]]: [[Woozle's Projects\|Projects]]: [[{{PAGENAME}}]]
	==Current Status==		==Current Status==
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	* Filters should be runnable on any folder (not just inbox)		* Filters should be runnable on any folder (not just inbox)
	* Scripting extensions (like what Gimp has), triggerable by events: on receipt of mail, on deletion of mail, on use of filter, on calendar/timer event...		* Scripting extensions (like what Gimp has), triggerable by events: on receipt of mail, on deletion of mail, on use of filter, on calendar/timer event...
			==Notes==
			Some explanation of why the mbox format is so effed-up:
			* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html Configuring Netscape Mail On Unix: Why the Content-Length Format is Bad] by Jamie Zawinski
			* [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mid.html Recommendations for generating Message IDs] by Jamie Zawinski

Woozle: HyperMail moved to MailFerret

2006-07-02T12:33:07Z

HyperMail moved to MailFerret

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Woozle: some navbar cleanup; removed "Woozle:stub" template

2006-01-30T21:35:45Z

some navbar cleanup; removed "Woozle:stub" template

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	~~{{stub~~:~~Woozle}}~~		[[Woozle]]: [[Woozle's Projects\|Projects]]: [[{{PAGENAME}}]]

	[[~~User:~~Woozle\|~~Woozle~~]]: ~~Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''~~
	==Current Status==		==Current Status==
	*'''2005-11-23''' Finally managed to get MS Access to use {{yp\|MySQL}} as its database engine (had no trouble connecting to a MySQL server on a paid web hosting account, but could not connect to one on my local Linux box; turned out to be a setting which has to be tweaked in the .conf file), but I keep running into problems trying to edit records. An error message claims the record is already locked by another user, which is not true (I can edit the record by other means even after this message pops up).		*'''2005-11-23''' Finally managed to get MS Access to use {{yp\|MySQL}} as its database engine (had no trouble connecting to a MySQL server on a paid web hosting account, but could not connect to one on my local Linux box; turned out to be a setting which has to be tweaked in the .conf file), but I keep running into problems trying to edit records. An error message claims the record is already locked by another user, which is not true (I can edit the record by other means even after this message pops up).

Woozle: /* Current Status */ 11/23 MySQL problem

2005-11-25T15:38:55Z

Current Status: 11/23 MySQL problem

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	[[User:Woozle\|Woozle]]: Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''		[[User:Woozle\|Woozle]]: Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''
	==Current Status==		==Current Status==
	*'''2005-09-30''' Latest problem is that I've run into one of the limits of MS Access -- an error pops up when HyperMail tries to add new records, something like "database size limitation exceeded". The .mdb file is about a gigabyte; I tried compressing it, but Access just locked up... and the import isn't really anywhere near completion. So it's time to try another database engine. I have to set up a [[MySQL]] server on Camilla and see if I run into the same problem using Access as a front end connector, or if I have to somehow go directly (via ~~[[wikipedia:ADO~~\|ADO]], maybe).		*'''2005-11-23''' Finally managed to get MS Access to use {{yp\|MySQL}} as its database engine (had no trouble connecting to a MySQL server on a paid web hosting account, but could not connect to one on my local Linux box; turned out to be a setting which has to be tweaked in the .conf file), but I keep running into problems trying to edit records. An error message claims the record is already locked by another user, which is not true (I can edit the record by other means even after this message pops up).
			*'''2005-09-30''' Latest problem is that I've run into one of the limits of MS Access -- an error pops up when HyperMail tries to add new records, something like "database size limitation exceeded". The .mdb file is about a gigabyte; I tried compressing it, but Access just locked up... and the import isn't really anywhere near completion. So it's time to try another database engine. I have to set up a {{yp\|MySQL}} server on Camilla and see if I run into the same problem using Access as a front end connector, or if I have to somehow go directly (via {{yp\|ADO}}, maybe).
	*'''2005-05-11''' The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:		*'''2005-05-11''' The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:

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	So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".		So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".

	==Wanted Features==		==Wanted Features==
	* Log of all messages received so I can be sure I didn't receive a message (and can find out where it went if I did -- deleted, manually filed, filed by filter, etc.) Log should be viewable by filter, i.e. what messages has this filter been applied to?		* Log of all messages received so I can be sure I didn't receive a message (and can find out where it went if I did -- deleted, manually filed, filed by filter, etc.) Log should be viewable by filter, i.e. what messages has this filter been applied to?

Woozle: /* Current Status */ wanted features

2005-11-25T14:04:31Z

Current Status: wanted features

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	So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".		So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".
			==Wanted Features==
			* Log of all messages received so I can be sure I didn't receive a message (and can find out where it went if I did -- deleted, manually filed, filed by filter, etc.) Log should be viewable by filter, i.e. what messages has this filter been applied to?
			* Temporary disablement of individual or all filters (without having to delete them)
			* Filters should indicate when they were last applied
			* Filters should be applicable automatically or on demand
			* Filters should be runnable on any folder (not just inbox)
			* Scripting extensions (like what Gimp has), triggerable by events: on receipt of mail, on deletion of mail, on use of filter, on calendar/timer event...

Woozle: /* Current Status */ 9/30

2005-10-02T13:56:22Z

Current Status: 9/30

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	[[User:Woozle\|Woozle]]: Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''		[[User:Woozle\|Woozle]]: Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''
	==Current Status==		==Current Status==
	2005-05-11 The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:		*'''2005-09-30''' Latest problem is that I've run into one of the limits of MS Access -- an error pops up when HyperMail tries to add new records, something like "database size limitation exceeded". The .mdb file is about a gigabyte; I tried compressing it, but Access just locked up... and the import isn't really anywhere near completion. So it's time to try another database engine. I have to set up a [[MySQL]] server on Camilla and see if I run into the same problem using Access as a front end connector, or if I have to somehow go directly (via [[wikipedia:ADO\|ADO]], maybe).
			*'''2005-05-11''' The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:

	~~mié~~, 06 ago 2003 05:52:52 -0400		miï¿½, 06 ago 2003 05:52:52 -0400

	So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".		So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".

Woozle at 20:37, 12 May 2005

2005-05-12T20:37:02Z

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			[[User:Woozle\|Woozle]]: Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''
	==Current Status==		==Current Status==
	2005-05-11 The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:		2005-05-11 The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:

Woozle at 17:31, 12 May 2005

2005-05-12T17:31:17Z

New page

{{stub:Woozle}}
==Current Status==
2005-05-11 The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:

mié, 06 ago 2003 05:52:52 -0400

So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".