SocialMail 0.1 Released and Published
by Daniel on Jan.06, 2010, under SocialMail
SocialMail v0.1 has just been released and published to AMO. For those new to the site, the goal of SocialMail is to enhance the email experience and bring social networking features to Thunderbird.
Not much to note in this version from the previous releases, mainly house keeping changes, a few bug fixes and the most visible change being our new logo.
Thanks have to go out to my brother who did the core design and inspiration for the logo and my sister-in-law (not his wife) for the color scheme and refinement of the original concept.
GET IT HERE socialMail-0.1
This marks the end of what I wanted to accomplish in the first phase of SocialMail development, all the core functionality is there. That doesn’t mean that development is stopping! From here we are moving to increase the social networking functionality, bringing the networks into the email experience.
Here’s a few thoughts for what is likely to come in future versions (no promises though)
- Updating status on facebook/myspace/twitter/etc simultaneously from Thunderbird
- Viewing a contacts tweets when viewing emails from them
- Viewing contacts status and details from the individual networking sites.
- Fixing defects as they’re reported
By no means is this definitive, I’d appreciate any suggestions on what you would like to see in future versions.
One last word on release strategy, I’ll try to post frequent updates to this site as new features are added, but I will only update the AMO listing when fixing defects or minor feature enhancements to the current 0.1 stream. This way I won’t be causing unnecessary updates to users who want a stable experience but those who want the bleeding edge (and it has that name for a reason) can see what I’m working on as it gets done.
I hope you enjoy this release, please post your feedback, good or bad (as long as its constructive).
-Daniel
January 8th, 2010 on 5:09 am
AWESOME RELEASE! Thanks so much.
Here’s my article with some screenshots.
http://www.lehsys.com/2009/12/xobni-for-thunderbird-early-with-socialmail/
I appreciate it…
Thanks,
LHenryJr.
http://www.lehsys.com
January 13th, 2010 on 9:10 pm
When I heard of Socialmail, I was really excited. This is what I am looking for. Sadly, it just won’t work (at least on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine). I tried with Tbird 3.0, 3.0.1, even 3.1 (where It won’t install). In Tbird 3.0 installation finished without notable errors, but there is no Socialmail sidebar and the preferences dialogue won’t open. May it be an Ubuntu-specific problem? Has anyone managed to install Socialmail on a linux machine?
Best, Till
January 14th, 2010 on 9:10 am
Hi Till,
Thanks for trying out SocialMail, I’m sorry that it’s not working under Ubuntu. There’s no OS specific code in there so I’ll need to dig around to find the problem, I definitely don’t want to ignore the linux user base.
I’m busy over the next few days however I’ll try to build a Ubuntu box early next week to check this out.
Regards,
Daniel
January 23rd, 2010 on 7:42 am
I get the following from the error console. Hope it helps:
Warning: Failed to load overlay from chrome://socialmail/content/socialmail.xul.
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul
Line: 0
January 23rd, 2010 on 8:01 am
Hi Till,
Thanks for that, it looks like a case sensitivity issue. I’ll get a new release out in a day or two.
-Daniel