SocialMail 0.4.5 free and easy
by Daniel on Jun.18, 2010, under SocialMail
Ahh, had a post ready and firefox crashed, what gives!
This is one of the most significant SocialMail releases to date, rather than new users needing to apply for their own Rapleaf API key, SocialMail now has it’s own key (Thanks to Rapleaf) with a limit of 20,000 queries per month, hopefully this is enough for now!
The great benefit of this is that once SocialMail is installed, users will be able to start seeing the social networks of their contacts, without any further fuss.
If you already have an API key that’s fine, SocialMail will continue to use it for your queries, which will help take the pressure off the shared key.
To make this work properly and protect the new key, I’ve created an API proxy which all SocialMail api queries will go through so that the new API key can be added if necessary. Unfortunately this means that for the moment, HTTPS queries are disabled until I can afford secure hosting.
So without any further fuss, here it is:SocialMail v0.4.5 I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to your feedback. If all goes well I’ll post to AMO later in the weekend for wider distribution.
July 9th, 2010 on 12:45 am
Hi,
I made the mistake of moving to TB3.1, which caused me to lose the linkedin addin, and I cant use Rapleaf either. SocialMail is working. Is there any chance of TB3.1 being supported?
Also I am puzzled by the picture support. I thought I would be able to see peoples facebook picture through SocialMail, but I dont. I did get their linkedin picture. Is there something I have to do to see a facebook picture that I dont know about?
Thanks for the work on this very useful utility.
John
July 9th, 2010 on 5:46 pm
Hi John,
I’ll update the linkedin plugin for 3.1 over the weekend so check back early next week and I’ll have it on line somewhere on the site. There have been some technical issues between rapleaf (the API service that SocialMail uses) and facebook in the past and I tend do find the collection of facebook data is a little behind the other social networks. If SocialMail gets Facebook data from Rapleaf, it will be shown. I hope to be able to improve facebook integration when I get around to doing a plugin for it, but thats down a few rungs on the priority list at the moment.
-Daniel
July 11th, 2010 on 11:11 pm
Hi Daniel,
Just stumbled upon SocialMail, it’s really great too see something like Xobni for Thunderbird.
Two suggestion from me, that would probably easy to implement:
1) I noticed that SocialMail always also grabs my own contact details and website (from responses to mails I sent with my signature included). Would be great if I could get MailMail to know my own contact information so it could ignore it when fetching data.
2) You could make it update the sent/received numbers by scanning all the past mails once. Right now they only get updated when I click on each individual mail.
Keep up the good work!
Martin
July 14th, 2010 on 5:15 pm
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the feedback. Issue 2 will be fixed in the next release it was actually fairly simple when I stopped to think about it.
Issue 1 is more complicated as I haven’t thought of a way to handle an email with multiple reciepients yet
Daniel
July 21st, 2010 on 8:57 pm
Hi, first: great piece you provided!!!
Two suggestions / questions i have
1) I’m using it as part of a portable thunderbird installation and therefore would be interested in configuring the path were the gathered data of socialmail is stored (assuming that the data is stored).
2) I currently recognize that my sent mails (accessed via imap) are not count as sent mails but as received mails for my own account. Could issue out of my thunderbird configuration. But especially due to many users having multiple email accounts, it would be nice to configure all email addresses which represent myself.
Keep going with the great piece of software.
July 22nd, 2010 on 8:18 pm
Hi Austin,
Thanks for the feedback. As for your questions:
1) I haven’t tested SocialMail in a portable configuration however the data file lives in the Thunderbird user profile directory so as long as your profile is on your portable drive there shouldn’t be any issues. Please let me know if this isn’t the case and I’ll look into it
2) This is an ongoing issue that I still need to identify a solution for, the problem being if the email is sent from me, what should SocialMail display, particularly in a situation where there are multiple recipients.
July 23rd, 2010 on 8:03 am
Hi Daniel,
thanks for the feedback.
Concerning my first point – in one special case i would be interested to separate configuration and local mail storage. I am only using the prefs to access the mail accounts and the mails themselves are stored on the hard disk, it would be great to configure socialmail in a similar way.
For the second point – if the mail has only one recipient, socialmail could display the recipient which would allow to access the mail conversation with the recipient. If there is more then one, displaying myself would be fine for me (but counting as sent).
For clarification the multiple account solution i had in mind has three parts:
1) a way to configure more than one mail account as myself, which would get the sent / received display right from my perspective.
2) an additional configuration which would allow to aggregate the accounts to one “person” leading to a aggregation of the sent /received count over all accounts (drawback no threads for my different accounts available any more)
3) the chance to “filter” the accounts to fix the drawback
I don’t know what that means in terms of performance, but that would be a great enhancement from my perspective.
But anyway thanks for answering my questions and keep going.
August 6th, 2010 on 7:40 pm
Hi
I downloaded and installed the pulg-in but nothing happens, it doesn’t appear in the installed Complements panel nor works. I’m using Thb 3.0.6 under Windows 7.
Any idea?
thanks
August 10th, 2010 on 10:51 pm
No idea at all, Can you have a look in the error console (tools menu->Error Console) and see if there’s anything there that might cause this. I haven’t tried this with Windows 7 myself, but noone else has reported the same issue.
August 27th, 2010 on 1:02 am
Hi Daniel,
I recently found out about this pligin and I realy like it! I have a question and a proposal for enhancement.
First the question: How does SocialMail retreive information from networks and is it possible to see why one of my contacts who does have a LinkedIn account is showing no social networks in SocialMail? I have checked the e-mail address, they match. I also have the LinkedIn plugin installed and configured.
Second the suggestion for improvement: It would be great to update the address book with the information from SocialMail, so that all information found in the social networks is saved in the address book. In this scenario I would like to select the addres book SocialMail uses, instead of creating it’s own.
Anyway, I realy like the tool as I can see from the ones where it does work!
Kind regards,
René
September 23rd, 2010 on 2:35 am
Hi Daniel,
I love the add-on, but it seems to have a memory leak. My TB runs around 75mb of memory usage usually, but with SocialMail turned on it runs around 150mb memory usage.
Just wanted to make you aware. TB is still usable, but the speed really drops out of it. I do love your add-on though!
Thanks,
Jacob
September 29th, 2010 on 9:48 am
Thanks Jacob
I’ll look into it
October 8th, 2010 on 7:59 pm
Hi Daniel,
The following error keeps returning in my TB error console:
Error: this.sha1 is undefined
Bronbestand: chrome://socialmail/content/rapleaf.js
Line: 40
I’m using TB 3.1.4 and SocalMail 0.4.5 under Linux (Fedora 13)
If you need further info, please ask.
Kind regards,
René Perdok
October 12th, 2010 on 9:10 pm
Hi Rene,
Thanks for reporting this, I’ll look into it.
Regards,
Daniel
November 18th, 2010 on 5:17 pm
Hi Daniel,
I just moved over to Thunderbird (3.1.6) and SocialMail (v0.4.5) from MS Outlook and Xobni. But I’m not able to get information from the social networks (facebook, twitter, linkedin). No image for my contacts, twitter and linkedin tabs are grayed out. I probably have missed something, but I do not know what. Any clues?
Regards,
Roar
March 5th, 2011 on 4:16 am
I’m having the same issue as Roar. I don’t see any of the social network info. I’m using TB 3.1.8