Re: patch for mozilla thunderbird requested

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Adam

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:56:24 -0400
From: Blake Winton <[email protected]>
To: Adam Back <[email protected]>
CC: Mike Shaver <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [hashcash] patch for mozilla thunderbird requested

Hi Adam,

this isn't really my or dmose's area, but it seems like kind of a neat 
idea, and I would be willing to help you (or someone else) write the 
patch.

The first step would be to get Thunderbird building, which you should 
be able to do by following the steps at 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Simple_Thunderbird_build

Please let me know if you run into any problems.

Thanks,
Blake.

On 11-04-29 15:00 , Mike Shaver wrote:
> Sorry for the delay getting back to you; copying some Thunderbird mavens here.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I wonder if we could get somewhere by asking on thunderbird-dev list.
>> 
>> Mike do you know anyone with an interest in anti-spam, hashcash types
>> of things from thunderbird side of mozilla?
>> 
>> We want to wrap up this ages old bug mentioned below that has been
>> bouncing around for ages and actually implement something! We can do
>> the hashcash
>> library part we lack thunderbird programming experience.
>> 
>> btw something that may help the attractiveness is if hashcash library
>> supports also the microsoft hashcash spec [1] - its free to use and I
>> think open source compatible even unusually for anything microsoft
>> related.
>> 
>> While they basically adaopted hashcash the serialization is
>> incompatible. I'll volunteer to code that spec and add it to hashcash.
>> 
>> hashcash already has both a library (libhashcash.a/hashcash.dll and a
>> command line tool and an example program using the library -
>> example.c) (Note you want to get the pre-release if you want to try
>> the example.c it
>> suffered bit rot I noticed).
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> [1]
>> http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/d/d/5dd33fdf-91f5-496d-9884-0a0b0ee698bb/%5BMS-OXPSVAL%5D.pdf
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:20:43PM +0200, Bas Steendijk wrote:
>>> in the feature request to add hashcash in mozilla thunderbird,
>>> 
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229686
>>> 
>>> which currently has status "WONTFIX", after i countered the arguments
>>> that caused it to get that status, the following happened:
>>> 
>>> i gave argument:
>>> 
>>> "this request is not about adding the 16 MB library, but about adding
>>> hashcash, which is simple and can be implemented in little size."
>>> 
>>> Ludovic Hirlimann then posted:
>>> 
>>> "Please provide a patch so we can figure out how much this would add
>>> and then decide if we want it in the product or not."
>>> 
>>> i'm asking hereby if someone can produce a patch to add hashcash to
>>> thunderbird, and post on there.
-- 
Blake Winton   Thunderbird Front End
[email protected]

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