Re: Possibility of plugin for Mozilla/Thunderbird?

Tim Wesson wrote:

> I've already emailed the Adam Back, but it occurs to me that maybe I should have
> posted here instead.
> 
> It occurs to me that if there was a plugin to Mozilla and Thunderbird that would
> interface with Hardcash, it could then be posted up upon
> http://update.mozilla.org/ and http://www.mozdev.com/ which would generate a
> good deal more interest in it.
> 
> If a plugin for Outlook were possible, so much the better!
...

frequently plug-ins do not give you the right kind of control to do "the 
right thing".  The ones I have looked at do not let you create 
background processing so users don't need to see stamp generation.

here are two alternatives which are really the same thing with different 
coupling logic.  The first and simplest is to take any of the stamping 
tools and make them run under Windows via a proxy.  Personally (tooting 
my own horn), I have done this already with parts of camram and it works 
quite nicely.  It would be interesting to play with camram 0.4.<dammit I 
found another bug> and build a client side stamping engine.

the next challenge would be to do the same thing on the pop 3 side 
although that is somewhat more amenable to plug-ins since it isn't 
necessarily real-time.  Camram would be a bit of overkill there but not 
unrealistically so if you want to go down that path.  Your big challenge 
would be making crm114 work on Windows.

the variant once you have the basic proxy systems working would be to 
use the Windows tcp stack interception code to redirect connection 
traffic to these filters.

I'm not intending to discourage, I just want you to know a little 
something about the terrain.  If you want to do the camram route, I will 
be glad to give you some help.

---eric