Wow. Atlast someone couragious enough to break into the mork-format and write a parser. You deserve kudos just for that. Thunderbird users, jump in and test :-).
- dBera On 4/11/06, Pierre Östlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've spent some time lately working on a Thunderbird backend for beagle. > Most of the basic stuff works, but it needs hard testing and some more > work until it's ready for mainstream. So, that's why I've decided to > release the source code to get some input. > > As you all know by now, Thunderbird's using Mork as it's file format to > store some basic information about mails in your different mailboxes. > This information is very limited and you won't get very far with it. In > order to perform a "full index" you'll have to download all mails to > your harddrive. This is default behavior when using POP3. IMAP on the > other hand, does not. You will have to enable the option: "Make the > messages in my Inbox available when I am working offline" in order to > get a "full index". If you don't do this, only some basic information > stored in the Mork database-file can be indexed (subject, sender, date > and some other things). You can enable this option at: Edit->Account > Settings...->Offline & Disk Space->Offline. If a mail for some reason > can't be fully indexed, partial index (information in the mork-file) > will be used as fallback. No need to worry. > > Here's a list of what's currently supported: > * A small "incorrect-and-not-good-but-working" implementation of Mork > * "Full index" with "partial index" as fallback (read above) > * POP3 url scheme (works with beagle-search) > * Re-indexing of mails if Thunderbird is used during index to avoid > offset failures > > What's not supported (or not working correctly): > * IMAP url scheme > * New mails downloaded _after_ index is done, are not indexed until > beagle is restarted > * Some encoding errors when performing a partial index > * Attachments are indexed, but you can't open them > * Some other things... > > I guess that's the information needed for now. The patch is available in > the bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323065). It > works fine with HEAD and version 0.2.4. Comments? Should I continue my work? > > Thanks! > > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > Dashboard-hackers mailing list > Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dbera.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
