Comments on: SocialMail v0.12 out and about

By: Frank J.

Frank J. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:49:08 +0000

for me telephone numbers (all of them)
and home address are the most relevant
maybe homepage for some other people

and I think it would be nice if one could change the size of the windows (I have enough space)

send/received is not counted by the mail index is it?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:27:21 +0000

Thanks for the Feedback,

I’ll have a look at those ideas for future versions, I’m always looking for ways to make SocialMail better and more usable.

With regards to your query, no you’re probably not missing anything, SocialMail pulls very little from the AddressBook at this stage, that will change as we evolve the product. For example the new version I’m about to publish will display phone numbers from addressbook entries. Is there particular information you would like to see in the SM Panel?

Regards,
Daniel

By: Frank J.

Frank J. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:09:40 +0000

Hi,
some ideas for further developement:
* get user images from GoogleMail
* create a filter for URLs (because some emailproviders always include ads in the signature)
* easier way to choose an image for the contact

btw. my contactdata from my normal Adressbook are not shown is this normal or am I missing something?

nice work btw.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:18:31 +0000

Hi Mathieu,

The most likely cause is that the Global Indexer has been disabled. I rely on it heavilly throughout SocialMail, specifcally the part which handles indexing of email content. You can check that it’s enabled by going to the advanced tab in the Thunderbird options window. Be warned that if you enable it and have a well established mailbox, it will take a while to index everything. Once it is up-to-date SocialMail will start grabbing url’s from emails as they are viewed.

Note, however, that SocialMail will only try to search an email once, even if it fails, it will NOT try to search the same email again. So only new emails will be searched

-Daniel

By: Mathieu Frenette

Mathieu Frenette — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:16:26 +0000

Hi,

I can’t seem to get the URLs to show in 0.12, am I doing something wrong?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:12:25 +0000

Hi Matt,

I am familiar with the issues with SocialMail and linux compatability and working on a fix, which should be available in the next day or two.

At present I am using GetSatisfaction as a feedback mechanism, so any issues/questions/requests can be raised there.

Regards,
Daniel

By: Matt Topper

Matt Topper — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:42:03 +0000

Hi Daniel,
I’m trying to install your plug-in on Thunderbird 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 64 bit and it seems to not be firing. When I go in to configure it I’m not seeing anything pop up once the preferences button is pushed. I looked through my .thunderbird file and I don’t have the .sqlite file created either. Is there a forum to post questions back to you?

Matt

By: lehenryjr

lehenryjr — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:04:01 +0000

Just another outstanding release. I’ve it installed on my machine and my wife’s machine and it’s like a whole new program. I love all the quick reference and access to the common information- it’s so much easier!

Thank you.

Thanks,
LHenryJr.
http://www.lehsys.com

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By: admin

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:01:01 +0000

SocialMail currently uses it’s own thunderbird Addressbook, you can see it if you look in the addressbook window. It made more sense to use the existing framework then develop a new one from scratch.

It’s not very useful as an addressbook at this stage but future versions will see an improvement in that area.

-Daniel