SocialMail pre-release
by Daniel on Nov.30, 2009, under SocialMail
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.
December 5th, 2009 on 12:24 pm
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your efforts in making a ‘xobni’ like plugin for TB. The current plugin is not compatible with TB 3.0 RC1 released on Nov 24 2009 and RC 2 released on Dec 1, 2009.
Would it be possible for you to setup SocialMail for the latest version?
Thanks,
Ananth
December 7th, 2009 on 2:37 am
Ananth,
Absolutely, I hadn’t seen the pre-release versions. I’ll post a new version momentarilly.
Regards,
Daniel
December 7th, 2009 on 8:18 am
Thanks Daniel. Could you also update the link to find the latest steel extension. The one I could find is not compatible with TB 3.0 RC 2.
Regards,
Ananth
December 12th, 2009 on 3:45 am
As a suggestion, could you place a copy of the Steel.xpi that your using on the site so its a bit easier to install… I found several that were not compatible.
I appreciate it…
Later,
Larry
December 12th, 2009 on 9:23 am
Hi,
I’ve done some work on the socialMail plugin and removed the dependancy on the steel.xpi and added a few new features. I’ll be posting a new version in a day or two, so I suggest hold off installing 0.0.3 until 0.0.4 is out