The Rumbling Edge

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

2009-11-07 Thunderbird Trunk builds

2009-11-08T06:08:09Z

Previous TB pre-release – Beta 3 | Current TB pre-release – Beta 4 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

comm-central has branched – Thunderbird 3 will be released off the comm-1.9.1 branch.

Thunderbird-specific: (54)

Fixed: 248681 - Add backend support for ability to toggle “Reply”/”Reply to All” in Composer
Fixed: 281877 - Thunderbird doesn’t have “Copy Image” on context menu
Fixed: 304190 - New unread count of saved searches is 2x the actual messages.
Fixed: 442222 - Update About > Credits for Thunderbird3
Fixed: 450710 - Mail account auto-configuration via a database of ISP configs fetched via HTTP
Fixed: 457882 - News (nntp) option “ask me before downloading …” is ignored
Fixed: 473038 - Hack around bug 456311 for Tb3
Fixed: 490817 - Add about:rights link to Thunderbird’s about:license page.
Fixed: 491202 - [autoconfig] No fallback for secure authentication failure on secure connections during account verification
Fixed: 491294 - Updated appearance for folders
Fixed: 498141 - Close Window On Delete Preference No Longer Works
Fixed: 507508 - Modify Tango icon for Sent folder to match new Send button in composition toolbar
Fixed: 510643 - Thread pane is cleared after rebuild-index of local mail folder
Fixed: 514850 - Ignore contents of forwarded mail that lacked attachment in attachment detection
Fixed: 515031 - Wrong message number and complete percent when indexing IMAP All Mail folder
Fixed: 515218 - “Open in Folder” in search doesn’t respect tab/window pref
Fixed: 516384 - [Vista] New toolbar button icon improvements
Fixed: 516680 - [faceted search] Add keyboard navigation capabilities to new search
Fixed: 517198 - Compact doesn’t expunge messages with IMAP deleted flag (CONDSTORE supported IMAP with “mark as deleted” model)
Fixed: 517200 - [faceted search] Can’t remove quick filter after switching from an active traditional Quicksearch filter to “Search all messages” (can cause blank message list although no filter set)
Fixed: 517467 - Group by/Sort by date is broken
Fixed: 517607 - errorHook: tabmail.setTabtitle is not a function@chrome://messenger/content/specialTabs.js.100
Fixed: 518128 - hang on saved search, group by sort, views that does not mach any msg
Fixed: 518753 - Search bar doesn’t remember setting in new windows
Fixed: 519192 - Fix up context menu for gloda search results list tab – can’t move, copy, tag, mark messages etc
Fixed: 519253 - [faceted search] timeline widget has slid over
Fixed: 519280 - [faceted search] more obvious click target
Fixed: 519667 - Thunderbird no longer needs to ship a separate license.html
Fixed: 519688 - (Message header) When option “Show icons and text” is ON, “Archive” and “Junk” buttons are too big of other buttons
Fixed: 521334 - Nit: Improve header pane metrics (e.g. “other actions” button too big, fix right alignment, reduce vertical space)
Fixed: 521478 - Clicking new mail notification opens a new tab
Fixed: 521928 - Other actions button needs to shed focus or stopPropagation or both
Fixed: 523067 - [faceted search] can’t open the mail from the searchlist
Fixed: 523254 - possibly fallback to always showing reply to sender as default
Fixed: 523303 - [faceted search] Changing sort order in gloda search results doesn’t
Fixed: 523803 - Star Icon used in Message list pane is too big
Fixed: 524246 - Password is cleared when we start over.
Fixed: 524266 - TB3.0b4: Expanding threaded messages causes crash
Fixed: 524428 - “thunderbird -compose attachment=file://…” fails to send if the attachment file url is encoded
Fixed: 524443 - Windows XP theme inconsistencies
Fixed: 524800 - Clicking the Website link in feed article message header does nothing (NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI)
Fixed: 525208 - No need to ship a EULA in the app any more
Fixed: 525232 - make use of golden colored attachment icon in message header list on Aero
Fixed: 525419 - DBViewWrapper.clone does not noteCuriosity for cloned search/synthetic (gloda-backed) views
Fixed: 525532 - reply all is shown when your email is in wrong case
Fixed: 525621 - New OS/2 icon for Thunderbird
Fixed: 525646 - Mass delete of messages resulted in massive memory usage
Fixed: 525718 - From header misaligned when adding the first tag/removing the last tag
Fixed: 525763 - Exception “cannot convert JavaScript arg 0″ in search.xml while closing a 3pane window
Fixed: 525832 - (Message Header) Windows XP theme inconsisten signed message icon
Fixed: 526473 - Global Search Results: Can’t filter using people/accounts/folders etc
Fixed: 526909 - pinstripe smime icons looks very old-style
Fixed: 526995 - [Autoconfig] msgWindow is undefined
Fixed: 527088 - Reply to list icon is missing in Windows XP with small icons

MailNews Core: (20)

Fixed: 130442 - Crash in [@ nsNntpCacheStreamListener::OnStartRequest(nsIRequest*, nsISupports*)] closing stand-alone windows.
Fixed: 172104 - multiple subject headers causes different subject in thread pane than preview pane, defeats subject filtering, should use first subject
Fixed: 465618 - gloda deleted message processing logic is not purging messages
Fixed: 483329 - gloda indexer onAnnouncerGoingAway handler does not cleanup sufficiently
Fixed: 484639 - gloda should not index junk messages
Fixed: 495572 - gloda should explicitly handle compaction
Fixed: 498493 - gloda error (labeled as warning): Got impossible folder ID
Fixed: 512917 - gloda needs to mark some messages as damaged and never try and index them
Fixed: 514504 - Gloda: messages for which the clean bit hasn’t been committed yet can be indexed in both event and sweep modes
Fixed: 516624 - Potential gloda db inconsistency from use of gloda-id property without checking dirty state
Fixed: 522211 - Set-up comm-1.9.1 branch
Fixed: 523447 - Limit nsMsgWindow to being an nsIURIContentListener on the message pane docshell only.
Fixed: 523809 - crash while moving messages [@nsMsgDBView::GetThreadRootIndex(nsIMsgDBHdr*) ]
Fixed: 524064 - crash [@memmove | nsTArray_base::ShiftData(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int) ]
Fixed: 524673 - crash [@memmove | nsTArray_base::ShiftData(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int) ]
Fixed: 524682 - comm-central should pull Chatzilla from hg rather than CVS
Fixed: 525052 - crash running filter [@ nsMsgFilterService::ApplyFilters(int, nsIArray*, nsIMsgFolder*, nsIMsgWindow*)]
Fixed: 525842 - Going offline tries to synchronize saved search folders with IMAP server
Fixed: 526760 - Port Bug 519357 – Only load known binary components from app directory – to comm-central.
Fixed: 527109 - handle non ‘/’ hierarchy delimiters during first time xlist special folder discovery

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3+ with Target Milestone of Thunderbird 3.0rc1): (7)

Since 2009-04-22: 489609 - Show whole subject – Wrap subject in message pane (long subjects not wrapped)
Since 2009-09-10: 515650 - [faceted search]: clicking on the “None” value of a facet does nothing
Since 2009-09-15: 516776 - Make it possible for browser elements to navigate through links/pages
Since 2009-09-23: 518337 - Recent changes broke accessibility labels for “from”, “subject” etc. fields when reading messages
Since 2009-09-29: 519543 - Gloda search while indexing hangs and is very slow; search activity should suppress indexing
Since 2009-10-03: 520409 - superbad UI performance, fairly unresponsive while Compact Folders plus indexing
Since 2009-11-05: 526918 - extraneous space in header pane above the headers in “All Headers” mode

2009-10-25 Sunbird 1.0 builds

2009-10-26T02:51:14Z

Current Sunbird (0.9) | Last planned Sunbird (1.0 Beta 1) | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Common (excluding Website bugs): (2)

Fixed: 484089 - Google Calendar fails in Shredder 3.0b3pre with Lightning 1.0pre if a master password is set
Fixed: 522125 - List all tabs dropdown is empty with Lightning installed

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+) with [needed beta] in whiteboard – newly listed bugs are italicized: (4)

Since 2008-12-10: 468846 - Recurring all day event -> duplicate event created after editing a single all day event
Since 2008-12-19: 470430 - Upgrade 0.3.1 to 0.9/1.0pre fails [Error: Upgrade failed! DB Error: duplicate column name: is_organizer]
Since 2009-05-21: 494140 - Multiple reminders,relations,attachments created by modifying repeating event
Since 2009-10-12: 521815 - Fix a few provider warnings

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

Sunbird builds:

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

2009-10-25 Thunderbird Trunk builds

2009-10-26T02:53:12Z

Previous TB pre-release – Beta 3 | Current TB pre-release – Beta 4 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

comm-central has branched – Thunderbird 3 will be released off the comm-1.9.1 branch.

Thunderbird-specific: (30)

Fixed: 227305 - Support drag-drop single message to desktop / file-system window (e.g. Explorer)
Fixed: 337964 - changing account during message composing doesn’t apply signing prefs from new account.
Fixed: 386007 - Clean up toolbarbutton CSS
Fixed: 408480 - data loss using extensions (notably lightning): Ctrl+C (and other keys) in standalone message window deletes mail, missing or empty menus
Fixed: 413848 - [MAC OS] Dragging attachments into folders overwrites existing files with same name without confirmation (Drag-and-drop, overwritten, no warning)
Fixed: 484656 - cannot post news messages (for one account only)
Fixed: 492739 - Smart folders – (only) inbox doesn’t use l10n string in smart folders tree
Fixed: 508548 - Crumbled paper as a metaphor for junk is hard to recognize
Fixed: 509748 - Message list for Inbox blanks until manually selecting another folder to view (IMAP folder, after “Compact”)
Fixed: 514650 - Scrolling in one tab changes scroll position in all tabs
Fixed: 515715 - Migration UI for toolbar customization after bug 474523 has landed
Fixed: 516860 - Using stars for NEW messages and starred messages is confusing.
Fixed: 516884 - High-level UI to control major feature changes between TB2 and TB3
Fixed: 519215 - [faceted search] Can’t get “not involving” filter criteria back into the search by clicking on them
Fixed: 519505 - default mac to small icons in toolbar
Fixed: 519580 - Use new Thunderbird Icon
Fixed: 520788 - autoconfig with bogus username/password alerts about “this folder is being processed”
Fixed: 520819 - header colors are too dark
Fixed: 520971 - Aero – Spell-check toolbar button moves/shifts/jumps upwards on hover
Fixed: 521813 - fix rss icons in the folder view
Fixed: 521955 - Can’t edit server settings when check is cancelled
Fixed: 522014 - clear icon is windows style
Fixed: 522019 - thunderbird shows blocked content when composing reply
Fixed: 522020 - Need vista specific icons for address book sources
Fixed: 522096 - [autoconfig] wrong popup on Username in account test
Fixed: 522242 - Folder properties dialog (folderProps.xul) is not extendable
Fixed: 522252 - make archiving of read-only folders do a copy, not a move
Fixed: 522459 - mysterious numbered folders created in Inbox, error when trying to delete
Fixed: 522598 - Finalize padding for text-beside toolbar buttons
Fixed: 522875 - [Migration Assistant] “Use original toolbar” over-populates toolbar

MailNews Core: (22)

Fixed: 222388 - Set initial SMTP server choice to “Always Use Default SMTP Server” instead of specific SMTP server which is set as “Default” when account definition
Fixed: 368415 - if you only download message headers, mails which are recognised as junk (spam) lose their “junk” status if you download their content
Fixed: 440236 - crash after connection lost [@ nsMsgDatabase::GetTableCreateIfMissing(char const*, char const*, nsIMdbTable**, unsigned int&, unsigned int&)]
Fixed: 447927 - Additional Email field of address book entries not included in address autocompletion
Fixed: 472764 - gloda full-text search always uses SQLite’s porter stemmer without regard to effective locale, etc.
Fixed: 474790 - mails with References: to itself break threading in thunderbird mailnews DB view backend
Fixed: 487992 - File size of offline store of IMAP folder increases upon each “Rebuild Index”
Fixed: 494014 - shutdown hang, high cpu, no open imap connections
Fixed: 494764 - Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value at nsNNTPProtocol::ParseURL()
Fixed: 507632 - Search-Chinese-characters-in-Thunderbird
Fixed: 508978 - VirtualFolderChangeListener should defer notifications, only periodically commit
Fixed: 509163 - SeaMonkey 2 beta dock icon (showing new emails) does not reset
Fixed: 513543 - Crash [@MimeInlineTextHTML_parse_eof ]
Fixed: 517256 - Autosync sometimes quits
Fixed: 519797 - [Gmail] Thunderbird creates spurious Trash folder (autoconfig doesn’t generate mail.server.serverN.trash_folder_name, then root-level Trash is created by existence check of trash folder even though [Gmail]/Trash is already used as trash folder)
Fixed: 522233 - Crash @[nsImapMailFolder::ParseAdoptedMsgLine(char const*, unsigned int, int, nsIImapUrl*)]
Fixed: 522327 - crash clicking Go Back in search results [@ nsMsgDBView::NavigateFromPos(int, unsigned int, unsigned int*, unsigned int*, unsigned int*, int)]
Fixed: 522342 - Allow JS/UI code to list other users with access to the folder (list full ACL)
Fixed: 522357 - test_compactOfflineStore.js hangs for a long time – Not enough arguments [nsIMsgImapMailFolder.markPendingRemoval]
Fixed: 522445 - Adjust client.py for handling the creation of the 1.9.1 branch
Fixed: 523114 - reindex crash [@ nsImapMailFolder::ParseAdoptedMsgLine(char const*, unsigned int, int, nsIImapUrl*)]
Fixed: 523343 - [faceted search] results list crash [@ nsMsgDBView::MarkThreadRead(nsIMsgThread*, unsigned int, nsTArray<unsigned int>&, int)]

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3+ with Target Milestone of Thunderbird 3.0rc1): (19)

Since 2006-05-19: 338549 - Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial
Since 2008-06-27: 442222 - Update About > Credits for Thunderbird3
Since 2008-11-18: 465618 - gloda deleted message processing logic is not purging messages
Since 2009-05-07: 491921 - Write tests for different content types for the content policy
Since 2009-05-26: 494892 - Clicking delete button in standalone window closes all standalone windows
Since 2009-05-29: 495572 - gloda should explicitly handle compaction
Since 2009-06-13: 498141 - Close Window On Delete Preference No Longer Works
Since 2009-06-15: 498493 - gloda error (labeled as warning): Got impossible folder ID
Since 2009-08-27: 512917 - gloda needs to mark some messages as damaged and never try and index them
Since 2009-09-08: 515218 - “Open in Folder” in search doesn’t respect tab/window pref
Since 2009-09-10: 515650 - [faceted search]: clicking on the “None” value of a facet does nothing
Since 2009-09-14: 516477 - Dock shows a double count of unread messages in smart folder view
Since 2009-09-14: 516624 - Potential gloda db inconsistency from use of gloda-id property without checking dirty state
Since 2009-09-15: 516776 - Make it possible for browser elements to navigate through links/pages
Since 2009-09-23: 518337 - Recent changes broke accessibility labels for “from”, “subject” etc. fields when reading messages
Since 2009-09-24: 518753 - Search bar doesn’t remember setting in new windows
Since 2009-09-30: 519688 - (Message header) When option “Show icons and text” is ON, “Archive” and “Junk” buttons are too big of other buttons
Since 2009-10-06: 520824 - investigate better default font for mac message reader
Since 2009-10-20: 523447 - Stop nsMsgWindow being an nsIURIContentListener and stop it being a parent content listener

Raindrop

2009-10-22T21:52:28Z

Raindrop just got released as a Mozilla Labs project!

What is Raindrop?

“Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome).”

Who built Raindrop?

“Raindrop is a new exploration by the team responsible for Thunderbird to explore new ways to use open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences.”

You can read more about Raindrop here, and wiki details along with the weekly call info are at Mozilla Wiki.

2009-10-14 Sunbird 1.0 builds

2009-10-15T00:12:50Z

Current Sunbird (0.9) | Last planned Sunbird (1.0 Beta 1) | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Common (excluding Website bugs): (6)

Fixed: 298097 - Rename calIRecurrenceRule endDate to untilDate
Fixed: 367359 - Attendees Dialog: Zoom buttons don’t work
Fixed: 392734 - Event dialog: start/end time get lost if ‘all day event’ is ticked/de-ticked once
Fixed: 466938 - strange dump statements
Fixed: 512436 - Unconditional removal of ‘disabled’ state in function changeContextMenuForTask
Fixed: 517700 - Lightning Categories Pref pane not showing any categories

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+) with [needed beta] in whiteboard – newly listed bugs are italicized: (4)

Since 2008-12-10: 468846 - Recurring all day event -> duplicate event created after editing a single all day event
Since 2008-12-19: 470430 - Upgrade 0.3.1 to 0.9/1.0pre fails [Error: Upgrade failed! DB Error: duplicate column name: is_organizer]
Since 2009-05-21: 494140 - Multiple reminders,relations,attachments created by modifying repeating event
Since 2009-10-12: 521815 - Fix a few provider warnings

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

Sunbird builds:

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

2009-10-14 Thunderbird Trunk builds

2009-10-15T00:05:58Z

Previous TB pre-release – Beta 3 | Current TB pre-release – Beta 4 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Thunderbird-specific: (36)

Fixed: 397838 - Tag button shrinks in its disabled state
Fixed: 420744 - Shutdown fails with 100% cpu load when auto-complete over LDAP is used
Fixed: 472076 - Changing the layout view when seeing a single message on a tab cause weird behaviors
Fixed: 488829 - The fonts used to display the eMail’s header are so big and bold that they steal a reasonable amount of the screen and they cannot be resized to usable values
Fixed: 490103 - Clean up autoconfig CSS
Fixed: 490430 - [autoconfiguration] can’t create the account because incoming server already exists (creating two accounts on same server fails)
Fixed: 493719 - The inline “Edit Contact” dialog shows a vertical line
Fixed: 494430 - Threadpane column icons not centered in new Windows XP theme
Fixed: 494777 - New mail indicator for feeds has poor contrast
Fixed: 498569 - Search box is cut off when screen resolution width is 1024px
Fixed: 504028 - installer has to consider renamed mozjs.dll for mozilla-central
Fixed: 507593 - Windows/Linux new mail alert onclick broken when a message tab is displayed
Fixed: 507595 - More vista styled appearance for the address book
Fixed: 511417 - Attachment reminder should not search signatures
Fixed: 513841 - improve the look of tags in the message header and search results
Fixed: 515479 - remove mail accounts from old account wizard for TB
Fixed: 515966 - Message Filter Dialog menulist missing some icons
Fixed: 517171 - need to clean up inactive controls in autoconfig window
Fixed: 517723 - Shredder “Empty Trash” on top of Trash tree does nothing in Smart-Folder view
Fixed: 518106 - change crumbled paper to flame for junk column
Fixed: 518171 - quick account setup breaks if you hit stop (Error: host is undefined)
Fixed: 518586 - Get Mail toolbar button not display “get all new messages” item after customising toolbar
Fixed: 519607 - Restore default set in toolbar customization doesn’t do size and mode correctly
Fixed: 519669 - Thread summary head panel buttons fire their actions when right-clicking on them.
Fixed: 519689 - In summary collapsed threads mode, when subject of thread is small buttons are overflow
Fixed: 519809 - [faceted search] too long attachment names result in overlapping or truncated text and odd line breaks
Fixed: 519822 - polish tweaks for the header button box on mac
Fixed: 519958 - makeFriendlyDateAgo improperly l10n’ified
Fixed: 519961 - Warning: XUL box for hbox element contained an inline img child when opening addressbook
Fixed: 520237 - Help>Migration Assistant from windows other than 3pane throws error document.getElementById(”tabmail”) is null
Fixed: 520457 - Customize Toolbar leads to doubled account list in menu File > Get new Mail
Fixed: 520706 - Attachment checker doesn’t work with CJK keyword
Fixed: 520764 - gFolderTree.unload takes filename to save status to, but does not use it!
Fixed: 520770 - Select-All doesn’t work in 3-pane tab
Fixed: 521000 - Port generate-snippet-ab-CD to mail/locale/Makefile
Fixed: 521573 - Cannot create “Blogs & News Feed” or “Newsgroup” account

MailNews Core: (17)

Fixed: 455714 - nsIAbCollection::getCardFromProperty and nsIAbCollection::cardForEmailAddress should be able to return multiple cards
Fixed: 476422 - JavaScript exception when clicking “File” menu of “Write:” window while composing message
Fixed: 480942 - Cannot Set Unix Mailspool Account As Default
Fixed: 497598 - hang on shutdown appending msg to imap folder via a filter
Fixed: 508001 - Mac Trace-malloc leak regression of approx 30k after landing of dock icon changes/Investigate replacing RestoreApplicationDockTileImage
Fixed: 513315 - crash [@ nsScriptSecurityManager::GetCurrentJSContext()]
Fixed: 515316 - Retention policy settings of folders are altered to an other folder’s setting when “Use my account settings” of a different folder is changed
Fixed: 519507 - Crashes in [@fastcopy_I]
Fixed: 519801 - compacting imap offline stores can cause message fetches
Fixed: 519979 - move/deletes of large number of imap messages slow
Fixed: 520006 - Crash while using Search bar in folder Grouped By Sort [@ libfontconfig.so.1.3.0@0x151f0]
Fixed: 520432 - Personal vcard editing shouldn’t have a “photo” tab.
Fixed: 520459 - MsgHdrToMimeMessage: headers for MIME subparts not populated
Fixed: 520476 - Pick up latest LDAP c-sdk fixes
Fixed: 520977 - Dock icon doesn’t reset when it gets to zero unread messages.
Fixed: 521134 - pendingRemoval flag set by autosync constraints, but not cleared
Fixed: 521192 - Unable to update due to “Update XML file malformed (200)” – 1.9.3 based builds.

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3+ with Target Milestone of Thunderbird 3.0rc1): (33)

Since 2006-05-19: 338549 - Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial
Since 2008-06-27: 442222 - Update About > Credits for Thunderbird3
Since 2008-11-18: 465618 - gloda deleted message processing logic is not purging messages
Since 2009-01-08: 472764 - gloda full-text search always uses SQLite’s porter stemmer without regard to effective locale, etc.
Since 2009-01-10: 473038 - Hack around bug 456311 for Tb3
Since 2009-03-18: 484062 - define Cc, Ci, Cr, and Cu in Thunderbird just as in Firefox
Since 2009-05-07: 491921 - Write tests for different content types for the content policy
Since 2009-05-26: 494892 - Clicking delete button in standalone window closes all standalone windows
Since 2009-05-29: 495572 - gloda should explicitly handle compaction
Since 2009-06-13: 498141 - Close Window On Delete Preference No Longer Works
Since 2009-06-15: 498493 - gloda error (labeled as warning): Got impossible folder ID
Since 2009-08-27: 512917 - gloda needs to mark some messages as damaged and never try and index them
Since 2009-08-29: 513475 - When displaying all header entries the buttons “forward”, “archive”, “junk” and “trash” are shown with a too little height.
Since 2009-09-08: 515218 - “Open in Folder” in search doesn’t respect tab/window pref
Since 2009-09-09: 515560 - Decide on CJK plan for 3.0
Since 2009-09-10: 515650 - [faceted search]: clicking on the “None” value of a facet does nothing
Since 2009-09-14: 516477 - Dock shows a double count of unread messages in smart folder view
Since 2009-09-14: 516624 - Potential gloda db inconsistency from use of gloda-id property without checking dirty state
Since 2009-09-15: 516776 - Make it possible for browser elements to navigate through links/pages
Since 2009-09-15: 516884 - High-level UI to control major feature changes between TB2 and TB3
Since 2009-09-16: 516912 - faceted search/message tabs broken by bug 516237
Since 2009-09-23: 518337 - Recent changes broke accessibility labels for “from”, “subject” etc. fields when reading messages
Since 2009-09-24: 518753 - Search bar doesn’t remember setting in new windows
Since 2009-09-28: 519192 - Fix up context menu for gloda search results list tab – can’t move, copy, tag, mark messages etc
Since 2009-09-28: 519215 - [faceted search] Can’t get “not involving” filter criteria back into the search by clicking on them
Since 2009-09-29: 519505 - default mac to small icons in toolbar
Since 2009-09-29: 519580 - Use new Thunderbird Icon
Since 2009-09-30: 519688 - (Message header) When option “Show icons and text” is ON, “Archive” and “Junk” buttons are too big of other buttons
Since 2009-10-06: 520788 - autoconfig with bogus username/password alerts about “this folder is being processed”
Since 2009-10-06: 520819 - header colors are too dark
Since 2009-10-06: 520824 - investigate better default font for mac message reader
Since 2009-10-13: 521955 - Can’t edit server settings when check is cancelled
Since 2009-10-13: 522014 - clear icon is windows style

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2009-10-15

Reminder: Thunderbird upgrade testing this upcoming Thursday

2009-10-12T07:23:16Z

Hi Thunderbird users, this upcoming Thursday the Thunderbird QA team is organizing a upgrade testday. If you are running earlier versions of thunderbird and want to enjoy all the new features in 3.0b4, please join us this thursday.

More information can be found at :

See you there!

2009-10-04 Sunbird 1.0 builds

2009-10-15T00:10:20Z

Current Sunbird (0.9) | Last planned Sunbird (1.0 Beta 1) | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Common (excluding Website bugs): (1)

Fixed: 516681 - Lightning disables SeaMonkey’s throbber

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+) with [needed beta] in whiteboard – newly listed bugs are italicized: (3)

Since 2008-12-10: 468846 - Recurring all day event -> duplicate event created after editing a single all day event
Since 2008-12-19: 470430 - Upgrade 0.3.1 to 0.9/1.0pre fails [Error: Upgrade failed! DB Error: duplicate column name: is_organizer]
Since 2009-05-21: 494140 - Multiple reminders,relations,attachments created by modifying repeating event

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

Sunbird builds:

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

2009-10-04 Thunderbird Trunk builds

2009-10-05T22:13:33Z

Previous TB pre-release – Beta 3 | Current TB pre-release – Beta 4 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Thunderbird-specific: (96)

Fixed: 296781 - “delete” attachment should be “remove attachment”
Fixed: 311202 - Filter Log Showing Incorrect Information
Fixed: 353347 - Wrong Quick Search label “Entire Message” must be renamed to “Body” as it does NOT search the entire message! Gross inconsistency with “Search messages” UI where the same search is labeled “Body”.
Fixed: 442730 - composition security options for encrypt should only be one menu item (with checkbox) like signing
Fixed: 451852 - Make use of new search textbox widget in Thunderbird
Fixed: 454010 - Replace Address book and Mailnews Quick Search textboxes with new search versions (”Warning: Timed texboxes are deprecated.”)
Fixed: 455038 - The spinner should disappear when not spinning
Fixed: 456840 - messagereader: allow easy removing of contact from address book
Fixed: 457304 - Edit contact overlay doesn’t display the address the message was sent to
Fixed: 459045 - very first notification is empty
Fixed: 462578 - Implement Quick Search option “Subject, Sender or Recipient” (Subject, From, To, CC or BCC) to allow filtering for full conversations with a contact easily
Fixed: 465138 - New message-reader UI elements in header pane need to be customizable
Fixed: 468595 - Some IMAP messages are truncated in offline-store. (”This body part will be downloaded on demand.”)
Fixed: 473214 - add an archive menu item to thread pane context menu
Fixed: 478989 - Show conversation in tab
Fixed: 480470 - Customize toolbar should have button for “Archive”
Fixed: 480533 - “know your rights” is not findable
Fixed: 488454 - new icons for compose window toolbar for aero
Fixed: 489001 - archive is not disabled for .eml files (which is should be until it can work)
Fixed: 489406 - No error and no action when clicking on zero sized attachments
Fixed: 491494 - drive content policy changes security review
Fixed: 493060 - Installer default mail client option doesn’t set it correctly on Windows XP
Fixed: 494777 - New mail indicator for feeds has poor contrast
Fixed: 497338 - After upgrade, folders whose view mode was set to “Unread” display “0″ instead.
Fixed: 505169 - Message pane buttons use no icons – too easily confused
Fixed: 505558 - About dialog too narrow for localized TB3.0b3 builds
Fixed: 506632 - starting up in special folder mode results in blank folder pane
Fixed: 507392 - remove moveToAlertPosition() usage
Fixed: 509044 - text beside icons in default mail toolbar
Fixed: 509258 - Update theme icon.png and preview.pngs for 3.0
Fixed: 509268 - Attachment icon is big compared to the other elements
Fixed: 510397 - tab image still visible when loading
Fixed: 511780 - Archiving does not always place the messages in the correct account’s Archive folder (Archive shouldn’t use X-Account-Key: header, at least when account is not Global Inbox owner)
Fixed: 511924 - Need option/preference/some way to avoid changing default values for combined “reply” dropdown button in new header (to make “reply (to sender)” the default instead of “reply all” for many recipients)
Fixed: 512036 - Multiple references in message header causes scrollbar issues
Fixed: 513012 - deleting an IMAP subfolder leaves the folder visible
Fixed: 514094 - add “mark as read/unread” to default set of actions in “other actions” menu
Fixed: 515234 - Tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 4 (3.0b4)
Fixed: 515422 - Make sure the autoconfig window is usable with any OS theme colors
Fixed: 515587 - Spurious scroll bars in message header due to wacky overflow-y
Fixed: 515599 - Improve wording of insecureCleartext.description
Fixed: 515713 - reply-all to email that has a newsgroup header as well is broken
Fixed: 515723 - [faceted search] glodaFacetView.facets.mode.top.moreLabel should support plurals
Fixed: 515733 - [faceted search] split “Top 10 messages out of 400″ differently for localization
Fixed: 515743 - What’s New page for Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 – (3.0b4)
Fixed: 515744 - Release Notes for Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 – (3.0b4)
Fixed: 515801 - [faceted search]: cross-platform styling improvements on results page
Fixed: 515908 - [faceted search]: Empty results page needs some love
Fixed: 515927 - Marking message as not spam doesn’t clear deleted flag from message
Fixed: 515998 - [faceted search] hardcoded commas in message recipients list.
Fixed: 516170 - [faceted search] need better understandability of the faceting controls
Fixed: 516261 - [faceted search] further improvements to search results look&feel
Fixed: 516277 - [faceted search]: header area can suffer from overlap
Fixed: 516322 - Often, the first compose window breaks on initialization
Fixed: 516353 - “Get New Messages for > All accounts” is missing
Fixed: 516585 - [faceted search][linux] new searchbox needs some css love
Fixed: 516652 - uninitialized vars in destructor for searchbar widget
Fixed: 516676 - “require all/any” button looks different from the other buttons
Fixed: 516923 - Some folders do not appear in Smart folder view
Fixed: 517036 - Disable autocomplete in search field if one of the quick-search modes is selected.
Fixed: 517081 - [faceted search] message result display should coalesce messages with the same message-id header
Fixed: 517134 - Per-server newsgroup filters do not work
Fixed: 517244 - collapsing folder pane doesn’t persist tab switches
Fixed: 517266 - bug in errUtils.js: logEvent
Fixed: 517449 - [faceted search] Suggested string changes for search
Fixed: 517466 - Thunderbird keeps downloading 100+ messages on startup it has *already* downloaded (Gmail IMAP)
Fixed: 517489 - Accidental opening of hundreds of tabs really hard to undo
Fixed: 517617 - Message filters: folder flyout selector fails to open
Fixed: 517753 - loading altered encrypted message gives you a blank page, no message (GetLoadedMessage is not defined)
Fixed: 517759 - search dialog folder selection dropdown – folder icons missing
Fixed: 518019 - Redirects for What’s New, Release Notes, Start Page
Fixed: 518160 - [faceted search] Can’t click through to messages without a subject
Fixed: 518175 - Stop stripping mac nightlies
Fixed: 518187 - icon fixes for account central
Fixed: 518188 - Body search term not available in Search Messages when “in” is an account
Fixed: 518558 - [autoconfig] Autoconfig is available ONLY in first startup
Fixed: 518638 - Icon and text inconsistencies for toolbar and message header area
Fixed: 518694 - [faceted search] clean layout and spinner progress for searches that take a while
Fixed: 518702 - Synchronization and indexing done continuously, repeatedly
Fixed: 518863 - Thunderbird deletes session.json on exit if remove Global Search field from toolbar
Fixed: 518918 - Thunderbird 3pre high memory and consuming 100%CPU making mail nearly unusable
Fixed: 518944 - [faceted search] remove the all / or choices from the auto-complete entry
Fixed: 518946 - [faceted search] remove (or improve) the ORing of terms choice from the search results
Fixed: 519041 - Implement context menu for contentTabs
Fixed: 519051 - [faceted search] sidebar don’t go all the way down if few searches found
Fixed: 519116 - There are no percentages in font-weight
Fixed: 519118 - should be able to copy newsgroup link from message header
Fixed: 519184 - “Exception: gFolderDisplay.selectedMessageUris is null” when clearing the message pane
Fixed: 519188 - Can’t disable multiple-messages summary, mail.operate_on_msgs_in_collapsed_threads
Fixed: 519377 - Follow Firefox’s lead and use “About Thunderbird” instead of “About Mozilla Thunderbird” in the menu
Fixed: 519413 - Text beside icons doesn’t work in address book and compose windows.
Fixed: 519429 - Customize toolbar is broken
Fixed: 519502 - larger trash button in the multi-message view
Fixed: 519546 - new default toolbar: labels need left padding in Icons beside Text mode
Fixed: 519736 - cloning virtual folder views leaks
Fixed: 519951 - Closing a contentTab leaks an nsBrowserStatusFilter and others

MailNews Core: (19)

Fixed: 311774 - Newsgroup unread counts don’t reflect filter actions
Fixed: 461117 - Implement new keyboard shortcut for Paste as Quotation (Now that CTRL+SHIFT+V is for Paste Without Formatting)
Fixed: 463116 - Re-implement runtest.pl for leak and bloat tests in python.
Fixed: 480090 - Crash when sending email after being in offline mode [@ morkRowObject::CloseRowObject(morkEnv*)] – [@ nsMsgOfflineImapOperation::SetCopiesToDB - nsMsgOfflineImapOperation::Release]
Fixed: 481835 - client.py should use hg pull without -r tip argument
Fixed: 495551 - hang on shutdown, zero cpu, few (1-2) imap connections – from imap url initiated during shutdown (modal alert from imap thread / proxy call to UI thread)
Fixed: 505949 - Junk folder on Local Folders not created and possible data loss
Fixed: 506726 - “No Feed Summary” warning is obnoxious for rss entries with no summaries
Fixed: 513195 - make xpcshell-tests & check-one & check interactive broken for c-c
Fixed: 515614 - Inconsistent representation of “All” for new autosync_max_age_days preference
Fixed: 515842 - Make labels for IMAP autosync policies more descriptive to avoid mixup with retention settings
Fixed: 515847 - [SeaMonkey] xpcshell-tests: 11 failures since ‘asutherland Wed Sep 09 18:15:56 2009 -0700′ major import
Fixed: 515855 - Gloda depends on chrome://messenger/ string-bundle, breaks in seamonkey
Fixed: 516858 - c-central + m-central MacOSX builds fail to compile after m-c changeset 32506 : 9c3a70ea7acf
Fixed: 518403 - Need extra carriage return at top of message if “include signature for replies” is disabled while sig position is “below my reply”
Fixed: 518565 - crash [@nsMsgFilterList::LoadTextFilters(nsIInputStream*) ]
Fixed: 518667 - crash [@ nsImapMailFolder::UpdateFolderWithListener(nsIMsgWindow*, nsIUrlListener*)]
Fixed: 518674 - startup crash [@ nsLocalURI2Path(char const*, char const*, nsCString&)]
Fixed: 518686 - crash [@ nsMsgI18NConvertToUnicode(char const*, nsCString const&, nsAString_internal&, int)]

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3+ with Target Milestone of Thunderbird 3.0rc1): (44)

Since 2006-05-19: 338549 - Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial
Since 2008-03-03: 420744 - Shutdown fails with 100% cpu load when auto-complete over LDAP is used
Since 2008-06-27: 442222 - Update About > Credits for Thunderbird3
Since 2008-11-18: 465618 - gloda deleted message processing logic is not purging messages
Since 2009-01-08: 472764 - gloda full-text search always uses SQLite’s porter stemmer without regard to effective locale, etc.
Since 2009-01-10: 473038 - Hack around bug 456311 for Tb3
Since 2009-03-18: 484062 - define Cc, Ci, Cr, and Cu in Thunderbird just as in Firefox
Since 2009-03-21: 484551 - Eudora crash [@ nsEudoraMailbox::FillMailBuffer(ReadFileState*, SimpleBufferTonyRCopiedOnce&)] on import
Since 2009-04-28: 490430 - [autoconfiguration] can’t create the account because incoming server already exists (creating two accounts on same server fails)
Since 2009-05-07: 491921 - Write tests for different content types for the content policy
Since 2009-05-20: 494014 - shutdown hang, high cpu, no open imap connections
Since 2009-05-26: 494892 - Clicking delete button in standalone window closes all standalone windows
Since 2009-05-29: 495572 - gloda should explicitly handle compaction
Since 2009-06-13: 498141 - Close Window On Delete Preference No Longer Works
Since 2009-06-15: 498493 - gloda error (labeled as warning): Got impossible folder ID
Since 2009-08-06: 508978 - VirtualFolderChangeListener should defer notifications, only periodically commit
Since 2009-08-19: 511408 - Header pane should auto-resize and/or at least be resizable for large content (can’t view many to-recipients when expanded, view all headers etc.)
Since 2009-08-27: 512917 - gloda needs to mark some messages as damaged and never try and index them
Since 2009-08-29: 513475 - When displaying all header entries the buttons “forward”, “archive”, “junk” and “trash” are shown with a too little height.
Since 2009-08-31: 513841 - improve the look of tags in the message header and search results
Since 2009-09-08: 515218 - “Open in Folder” in search doesn’t respect tab/window pref
Since 2009-09-09: 515371 - make new autoconfig verify logon of password-less accounts (e.g., GSSAPI)
Since 2009-09-09: 515479 - remove mail accounts from old account wizard for TB
Since 2009-09-09: 515560 - Decide on CJK plan for 3.0
Since 2009-09-10: 515650 - [faceted search]: clicking on the “None” value of a facet does nothing
Since 2009-09-14: 516477 - Dock shows a double count of unread messages in smart folder view
Since 2009-09-14: 516624 - Potential gloda db inconsistency from use of gloda-id property without checking dirty state
Since 2009-09-15: 516776 - Make it possible for browser elements to navigate through links/pages
Since 2009-09-15: 516884 - High-level UI to control major feature changes between TB2 and TB3
Since 2009-09-16: 516912 - faceted search/message tabs broken by bug 516237
Since 2009-09-17: 517171 - need to clean up inactive controls in autoconfig window
Since 2009-09-19: 517723 - Shredder “Empty Trash” on top of Trash tree does nothing in Smart-Folder view
Since 2009-09-23: 518337 - Recent changes broke accessibility labels for “from”, “subject” etc. fields when reading messages
Since 2009-09-24: 518597 - GLODA search results should contain matched message fragment
Since 2009-09-24: 518753 - Search bar doesn’t remember setting in new windows
Since 2009-09-28: 519192 - Fix up context menu for gloda search results list tab – can’t move, copy, tag, mark messages etc
Since 2009-09-28: 519215 - [faceted search] Can’t get “not involving” filter criteria back into the search by clicking on them
Since 2009-09-29: 519505 - default mac to small icons in toolbar
Since 2009-09-29: 519580 - Use new Thunderbird Icon
Since 2009-09-30: 519669 - Thread summary head panel buttons fire their actions when right-clicking on them.
Since 2009-09-30: 519688 - (Message header) When option “Show icons and text” is ON, “Archive” and “Junk” buttons are too big of other buttons
Since 2009-09-30: 519689 - In summary collapsed threads mode, when subject of thread is small buttons are overflow
Since 2009-09-30: 519801 - compacting imap offline stores can cause message fetches
Since 2009-10-01: 519979 - move/deletes of large number of imap messages slow