2004-01-28 Builds Now Available (Win32, OSX)

[mscott]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... -28-trunk/

I'm in the process of finding a new GTK2/XFT Linux build contributor since we haven't had linux builds in a while.

New Changes:
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1) Lots of fixes for the preference regressions that were going on with the trunk this week. Also a fix for the spell checker hang.

2) Fix for: If new email comes in while reading a message in the preview pane, the message scrolls back to the beginning.

3) When saving an attachment by selecting the Save as option instead of Open, we now show a progress dialog if the attachment is large enough instead of just showing progress in the status bar of the main mail window.

4) POP: Fix duplication of messages in inbox if new mail arrives while the user has the inbox open, and the inbox.msf file is out of date for some reason.

5) ctrl-n now opens a new message window or a new address book card depending on what mail window you are in.

6) Fix for users trying to install themes/extensions from a folder path that has 8-bit characters in it.

7) Fix for adding the ability to create a table from pasted data in the compose window.

I've been working on a lot of improvements to our bayesian junk filters over the last week, but none of that work is ready yet, hence the lack of major features this week. That and the fact that there were a lot of regression fires to put out.

Known Issues:
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1) Regression in dragging attachments from the mail window to the desktop. We always drop the last attachment and not necessarily the attachment you selected if the message has multiple attachments.

2) Reports that last week's new feature: dragging attachments to the desktop is not working on OSX.

-Scott

[xnb]

Sending receiving mails encrypted by enigmail.
Works fine and solid.
Thanks a lot!

[fishbert]

My account settings dialog box is still being clipped -- prevents me from specifying account-specific SMTP servers, for example. I belive this is perhaps a machine-specific problem, since the find dialog box in both thunderbird and firebird appear to be longer than I remember them being before.

Regardless, being able to resize the dialog box would be absolutely sublime.
(I can resize the options dialog box, doesn't make sense to prevent such an action for the account settings dialog box).

[RickFriedman]

Scott,

You asked me to enter a bug for the problem I reported concerning the fact that the default account is automatically selected as the From: account when sending a reply (even when the original message was to a different account).

Well, I hesitate to enter it now. I installed the latest nightly (20040128) and now it's working properly. I haven't been able to reproduce the bug with this build. Obviously, something changed somewhere.

Rick

[fishbert]

Another problem: I can't seem to get Calendar (Jan. 9th version) for Thunderbird to register properly. I get an xpcom.dll error when starting Thunderbird for the first time after installing the Calendar extension. And now, whenever I try to lauch Calendar, I only get a dialog box saying it can't run because "The ICAL Component is not registered properly. blah blah blah blah. TypeError: Components.classes.@mozilla.org/ical-container;1 has no properties"

Is this expected to be broken now (until a new Calendar release, anyway)? Is something just messed up on my machine? It was working fine with the 1/21 version of Thunderbird.

[sboulema]

WFM

[jschell]

I'm in the process of finding a new GTK2/XFT Linux build contributor since we haven't had linux builds in a while.

You can try this one if you want :
http://jschell.nerim.net/thunderbird/nightlies/

I try to update it when major changes or bug fixes occurs.

Jérôme

[Barleyman]

As demonstrated here

Address lookup bug persists.

When I press tab:


I get pretty unexpected result:


Eero Sarlin's email domain is NOT ajat.fi. This is regression, 0.4 release works just fine with names that have commas.

and here

Here's another twist on the address lookup bug. I have traditionally entered addresses in the composition window by entering the two or three letter nickname assigned to the desired address. That worked fine, until recently. Now, if I enter "JS", which is assigned to my son Jeff, I get

, showing all entries in my address book with the initials JS.

If I hit the Tab key to go to the Subject line (without choosing one of the presented selections) I get



I really hope this gets fixed soon, as it's a royal PITA.

Please acknowledge?

[asac]

Debian users posted 2 issues on mouse -gestures: They appear to be still there in the latest build on linux (from jschell)

1. when selecting 2 mail messages in a fast manner (first a click on the 1st message followed by a click on the 2nd message) the detailed message window opens (as if I made a double-click on a single entry).

The same for selecting two mail folders.

2. further moving the mouse directly after a message or mailfolder is selected results in an unexpected drag.
This often results in a bit annoying move of whole folders on my imap server.

[Jubijub]

could you explain more in depth the features you're working on about the junk mail feature ?

Does this mean we'll have to build a new training.dat file ?

[tseelee]

2) Fix for: If new email comes in while reading a message in the preview pane, the message scrolls back to the beginning.

Scott, how can you say there aren't many features? Yeah, most changes are bugfixes, but the above one alone will be such a relief, especially for those like me who are bombarded by spams. I'm so looking forward to TB 0.5.

Best,
Tsee

[JSS3rd]

Scott ...

I've posted several messages to you about these two items, but you've never responded. Could you please do so?

1) The system tray notification icon really should disappear, not just when a message is opened, but also when a message is deleted without being opened, as in the case of obvious spam. At present, that doesn't happen.

2) When I include images in a message, if I don't want to use alternate text I'm required to select that option for each image I load. Why can't the selection be made to stick until changed?

And, of course, the address lookup bug is still with us, as addressed previously by both barleyman and me.

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20040128), XP Pro SP-1

[Jeroen p]

And, of course, the address lookup bug is still with us, as addressed previously by both barleyman and me.

I compile my own linux version and I took the opportunity to make a fix for this address lookup problem. I'm not sure if this fix is necessary for Windows builds because I think (if I remember correctly) mscott has mode some changes to the Thunderbird code that are not checked in.

If you compile your own windows version you can change the file ./mozilla/mailnews/compose/resources/content/addressingWidgetOverlay.js

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line 1059: var fullNames;
line 1060:
line 1061: fullNames = addressText.split(',');
line 1063: numAddresses = fullNames.length;

to

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line 1059: var fullNames;
line 1060: 
line 1061: newStr = addressText.replace(/.* >> (.*)/, "$1");
line 1062: addressText = newStr;
line 1063: 
line 1064: re = /("[^"]*" \<[^\>]*\>|[^,]+)/g;
line 1065: fullNames = addressText.match(re);
line 1066: numAddresses = fullNames.length;

I hope this helps,
Jeroen

[JSS3rd]

I hope this helps,

Unfortunately not, as I don't compile my own builds. Scott claimed that he had fixed this bug in the 1-21 respin of the 1-20 build, but at least two of us still have it.

Most of the recurring problems with Tbird seem to be involved with IMAP, but I use POP3, and have had relatively few problems (other than the ones I've mentioned ... knock wood )

[Dunderklumpen]

Running smoothly here.