2003-07-01 Windows, Linux & OS X Builds Now Available

Posted July 1st, 2003, 8:48 pm

What is the 1st of July without a new Thunderbird build! And boy do we have some great stuff for you this week:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/ ... 7-01-trunk

Heading into the 4th of July, the feature of the week is all about protecting your Privacy.

1) Thunderbird now has a content policy manager which has the ability to block remote images from mail messages. Enabling this feature will block all remote image requests when viewing a message. We have new privacy UI to support this feature (Tools / Options / Advanced / Privacy).

2) Also on the Privacy front. If a message has been identified as Junk, and you load it, we now sanitize the HTML in the junk message. This means stripping out all remote requests, all images, JS, cookies, tables and other potentially harmful html. You can turn off this feature via Tools / Junk Controls / Settings. To see it in action, click on a message which has HTML with some images. Mark the message as junk, notice the new display. Mark it as not junk, notice we revert to the original HTML again.

Other non privacy specific new features:

3) <a href="http://daniel.glazman.free.fr/weblog/newarchive/2003_06_22_glazblogarc.html#s96010222">Daniel Glazman's </a> editor changes for adding inline controls to tables. In HTML mail compose, insert a table and then select one of the cells in your table. Note the inline controls for resizing the table, adding, deleteing columns and rows!

4) First cut at a <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/junkmail/junkmail.html ">Junk Mail controls dialog</a> redesign

5) More polish on the address book contact sidebar including: preserving the open state of the sidebar across sessions, a context menu for contacts which lets you delete, edit or add the address to the addressing widget.

6) Seth Spitzer made a fix for <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211078 ">Bug #211078</a>. This means no more "blank" entries in the contact manager for cards which did not have a display name. This makes the contact manager MUCH more useful. Thanks Seth!

7) Hide the attachment bucket in mail compose by default.

8) A redesigned Junk bar in the message pane (mark a message as junk to see it). Thanks to Jason Kersey for help with the background image.

A complete list of changes can be found in the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/changes.html">change log</a>.
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Known Issues:
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None so far.

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This will probably be the last new build until after the 4th of July weekend. Enjoy all the new features this week!

Have a great holiday (for those of you in the US),

-Scott

Posted July 1st, 2003, 9:04 pm

Scott - these are all GREAT changes - you kick a**!

TBIRD FOREVER - there is NO BETTER email client, IMHO!

cheers and keep up the superlative work - that's for you and all the other uber-programmers working on Tbird and its extensions!

JH

Posted July 1st, 2003, 9:21 pm

just downloaded it and started using it. looks pretty good (happy to see we can block remote images now), but that contacts bar still looks a little funny. the text is abnormally large and that makes the whole contacts bar kind of ballooned out. i'm on windows 98se.

Posted July 1st, 2003, 9:25 pm

Just reduce Tools > options > fonts > proportional > Size

Posted July 1st, 2003, 9:37 pm

When viewing the Trash folder and selecting "Empty Trash", after the emails are removed, the text is deleted but the lines are still there, with the little email icons and the "dot" icons in the "read" and "junk" columns.

it's not clearing the message list pane properly.

Posted July 1st, 2003, 10:35 pm

coffeemonk wrote:When viewing the Trash folder and selecting "Empty Trash", after the emails are removed, the text is deleted but the lines are still there, with the little email icons and the "dot" icons in the "read" and "junk" columns.

it's not clearing the message list pane properly.

This was a recent mozilla trunk regression:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211289

and is not thunderbird specific. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.

Posted July 1st, 2003, 10:52 pm

This is great, many of the issues I was hoping to address were fixed already. Fantastic.

Here's my issue, and as far as I can tell, it has been this way with the previous 2 builds as well. I can't attach more the 5 files to an email message. I do a lot of publishing, so having to send 20+ files in units of 5 isn't all that bad, but not entirely desirable.

Another issue deals with the Pinball theme I'm using, although I'm 99% sure that has to do with the theme and not Thunderbird. In the composition window, the font controls (b/i/u/smileys, etc) do not show up. Really a non-issue as I don't use those, and there is no shame in switching back to Qute.

Other than that, fantastic build. Enjoy the holiday weekend.

Posted July 1st, 2003, 10:56 pm

alexbender wrote:This is great, many of the issues I was hoping to address were fixed already. Fantastic.

Here's my issue, and as far as I can tell, it has been this way with the previous 2 builds as well. I can't attach more the 5 files to an email message. I do a lot of publishing, so having to send 20+ files in units of 5 isn't all that bad, but not entirely desirable.

What happens when you try? I just clicked on the attachment button, selected 15 attachments, hit okay and they were all added to the attachment bucket.

What happens when you do that?

Posted July 1st, 2003, 11:23 pm

Fantastic work, especially on the privacy features! A+ Build.

Posted July 1st, 2003, 11:53 pm

mscott wrote:What happens when you try? I just clicked on the attachment button, selected 15 attachments, hit okay and they were all added to the attachment bucket.

Nothing. Literally. I've tried clicking the attachment button, tried clicking in the attachment bin (when it's there), right clicking in the bin... Nothing. If I select more than 5, it's like I did nothing. I select the files, click the add button, the attachment window closes, and that's it. I also tried adding 5, seeing them in the bin, then adding another 5, same results, nothing happens. The original 5 are still there, however. I also tried it and emailed a 15 file attachement email to another of my email addresses, no attachments made it.

Oh, almost forgot, I tried it with both the Qute and Pinball theme just to be sure it wasn't theme based.

Posted July 2nd, 2003, 1:00 am

Ooh, sanitizing junk mail, that's nice!

Preserving opens state of AB? Thank you! That bugged me!

Keep up the amazing work on this!

edit: just installed, I'm loving the junk mail sanitizing! :mrgreen:

edit2: alright, the state preserving works, but resizing isn't preserved

Posted July 2nd, 2003, 1:13 am

Truely awesome stuff!

I've been looking for that Junk HTML thingie for a very long time... Go home MailNews, Thunderbird is HEREEEE!

PS. latest-trunk?

Posted July 2nd, 2003, 1:44 am

Great new build, it seems to be working fine.

The "don't show images" works great, but when you want to see an image (daily Garfield, I can't believe it's free) right click and "view image" doesn't load up the browser, it opens an empty thunderbird window. Just one for the next build, otherwise it works great, you're doing fantastic work scott!

Mike 5:)

Posted July 2nd, 2003, 1:45 am

Would be nice if you could choose only to disable remote images in junk....

Posted July 2nd, 2003, 2:09 am

I have created an installer for Mozilla Thunderbird using Inno Setup Beta 4.0.4

Both sites are online with the new 1st July build now! Enjoy.

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/gk40215/">Geocities</a>
<a href="http://members.lycos.co.uk/nth10sd/">Lycos</a>

Note the different instructions for getting the installer from the two mirrors!

2003-07-01 Windows, Linux & OS X Builds Now Available

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