Comments on: Thunderbird Tagging Extension

By: lu

lu — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:15:19 +0000

The photo fits perfect – nice!

By: Paul Alexandrow

Paul Alexandrow — Wed, 10 May 2006 19:57:43 +0000

I already knew header tools and I was looking into some parts of its source code when I wrote the first version of TTB. Back then it didn’t work with the newest TB version, so I decided not to dig further into it. However, because it seems to work fine now, I definitely will have a look again. I don’t think it will replace a "true" tagging extension for TB – which is what we want to make – but a lot of technical problems we would encounter should be solved in their code already. Plus: We could re-use big portions of their code. We should check their license…

By: Audun

Audun — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:00:55 +0000

I’ve found your blog as I was searching for solutions on tagging my mail. Later on I asked in the mozillazine forums, and it turns out that don’t need to do all the work. There’s already an extension that does everything that you want it to do. It’s called HeaderTools (latest version 0.56). Check out this thread for more information and how-to:

Hope it helps, this is the nearly the perfect solution for me.

By: Alan’s Blogometer » Thunderbird Tagging Subversion Repository

Alan’s Blogometer » Thunderbird Tagging Subversion Repository — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:59:28 +0000

[…] I’ve established a Subversion respository at http://blogometer.com/svn/tbt for the Thunderbird Tagging project lead by Paul Alexandrow and Frederic Wenzel. The Thunderbird Tagging project has been discussed here in the Blogometer and at Frederic’s blog. I use Subversion on Windows, OS X and Linux, and can field and client questions. If Paul has a latest version of Tag the Bird, I can check that in for him, and post some notes on checkout. Posted by Alan Gutierrez Filed in Software Development, Aside […]

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:21:13 +0000

I so want this. Trying out Tag The Bird at the moment.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:01:39 +0000

Thanks Alan! I am gonna read your stuff, comment on it, and take a look on TtB also when I’ve got time. Unfortunately currently I am a little busy. Talk to you soon!

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:32:51 +0000

Notice that I’ve written up the tagging implementation proposal. Follow the trackback in the comment above this one. I’m reading through Tag the Bird now.

By: Alan’s Blogometer » Blog Archive » Thunderbird Tagging Extension

Alan’s Blogometer » Blog Archive » Thunderbird Tagging Extension — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:35:08 +0000

[…] My modest proposal to implement tagging in Thunderbird. This is a proposal I said I’d write in response to a discussion at fredericiana in the comments of a post entitled Thunderbird Tagging Extension. […]

By: Alexandre Lemieux

Alexandre Lemieux — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:33:07 +0000

Tagging emails in Thunderbird would be great. As you said, creating a X header for email messages is proper, according to the RFC. (That’s what it was designed for.) Searching for those header fields might be optimized on some mail servers, but probably not all of them. Anyway, it would definitivly be faster than doing a full text search of the message’s body.

I tried Tag The Bird and the concept is broken IMHO. You shouldn’t have to transmit any information to be able to add tags to your emails, especially not personal information! Also, as you mentionned, it doesn’t work with messages stored on a IMAP server, which is a pain. The IMAP protocol makes it really easy to update and add header fields, so there is no reason not to do that.

I have no idea how to write a Thunderbird pluggin nor do I have the time to do it, but this should be easy stuff to do. I hope a usefull tagging Thunderbird extension is released soon.

Thanks for the info.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:14:07 +0000

This sounds like a great idea.