Network Lighthouse

There has been a lot of talk about an outlook plugin “Xobni“, my wife used it for work and loved it and asked if there was something similar for Thunderbird.   After looking around I found that there wasn’t although there were several threads asking the same question.

With that in mind,  I’ve decided to start a new project, “SocialMail”, with the intention of bringing the functionality of the above mentioned outlook alternative.

Features that work so far:

• Real name discovery (from the local address book, rapleaft, email in that order)
• Social Network discovery and links to profiles where available
• Profile photo from social networks where available
• Email sent/received counts
• Contacts (who has this person been involved in conversations with)
• Previous Conversations
• Exchanged files (that you have received)

Be warned, that this is a pre-alpha release, attempt use at your own peril.

In order to use this you need the following

• Thunderbird 3.0b4 or newer
• Steel 0.1 extension (installation instructions can be found here)
• Manually create an addressbook in your profile with the filename “abook-1.mab”
• a rapleaf api key (get it from www.rapleaf.com)

With out any further delay here is the first release of socialmail for thunderbird: socialMail-0.01
socialMail-0.02 (Thanks to Ananth for noting the version incompatibility)

If you decide to give it a whirl, have any feedback or feature requests please leave a comment below.