Re: ways of integrating into Thunderbird

On 6/30/2011 11:20 AM, John Honan wrote:
> Would a hashcash plugin do the stamping as a background task, transparently? - 
> Or do we need to invoke a dialog and make it foreground? (imo hashcash 
> stamping should be as transparent as possible, in fact the only thing the user 
> should see is a checkbox on the thunderbird preferences screen to enable it, 
> and perhaps a 'number of bits' textbox value)
>
> Anyway, here are a couple of links;
>
> http://www.unsignedbyte.com/?page_id=4
> Here's one called the 'send later' extension, it allows you to schedule 
> outgoing emails to be sent later. I think it's relevant as it uses a method of 
> moving the email to drafts, then monitors the drafts folder until a certain 
> time, and then moves it to outbox.

that looks interesting.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162057/how-do-you-insert-email-headers-with-a-thunderbird-extension
> Uses js to intercept the outgoing email and insert headers.

Also looks interesting as does: 
http://email.about.com/od/mozillathunderbirdtips/qt/Add_an_Arbitrary_Custom_Header_to_Mozilla_Thunderbird.htm

we also want to grab messages inbound to check for valid stamps and handle it in 
some hand-waving appropriate method.

After I sent my message, it occurred to me that maybe we want to start stamp 
generation when the user starts creating a message and if the person sends the 
message before the stamp is done, then use the queuing and send later technique 
suggested above.  maybe I'll ask him about a mechanism for adding a plug-in that 
does some filtering/competition a work and sends the message when it's done. We 
would also need some sort of an alert indicator to say that the message hasn't 
been set yet.