The Rumbling Edge

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Released on 12 Aug 08, and this changelog was last updated on 13 Aug 08.

Shredder Alpha 2 (also known as Thunderbird 3 Alpha 2) has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the improvements in Shredder Alpha 2 over Shredder Alpha 1. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release, but excludes platform-wide fixes. Do check out the known issues as well.

Some half/fully-finished features in Shredder can be found here.

Changes in Shredder Alpha 2: (264)

Thunderbird-specific: (127)

• Fixed: 75927 - RFE: "Compact" or "Purge" button
• Fixed: 148195 - remove session-logout code from mailnews
• Fixed: 214136 - Close all windows , then cannot reopen window
• Fixed: 217942 - No visible hotkeys for get all mail and no menu items for "Get mail" [get new messages]
• Fixed: 218500 - Compose window should be renamed to "Write" for consistency
• Fixed: 230448 - Change default forwarding preference to inline instead of attachment
• Fixed: 241203 - attachment not visible until message loaded
• Fixed: 242361 - User-Agent header malformed
• Fixed: 249580 - Remove unused thunderbird.js prefs
• Fixed: 260422 - Enable/disable message filter makes filter list jump to the top of the list
• Fixed: 275552 - Right click and Save Link Target As on FTP link opens document in default FTP app
• Fixed: 297534 - Want to entirely disable marking a message as read when viewed
• Fixed: 307392 - RSS account should have "Disk Space" (retention) settings like other accounts
• Fixed: 312016 - "Download More Dictionaries" link outline is drawn over its whole line
• Fixed: 322628 - Palm Sync Build Changes to automate build and install in profile extensions
• Fixed: 323531 - crash when deleting all attachments after(!) detaching all of them from one mail [@ CompareAttachmentPartId]
• Fixed: 324953 - Run Junk Mail Controls (on selected messages) broken
• Fixed: 340728 - list window does not update when card deleted
• Fixed: 345468 - port fix for bug #341697 (branding wizards) to tbird
• Fixed: 362351 - After I changed a "List", the list props not changed on the screen…
• Fixed: 363461 - Add "Hide toolbar" to toolbar’s context menu
• Fixed: 365623 - [TB3a1] memory leak on account setting dialog box.
• Fixed: 365723 - [TB3a1] memory leak after closing message window
• Fixed: 368218 - message filters move up/down accelerators toggle enabled state
• Fixed: 370118 - Thunderbird refuses to start: "Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting."
• Fixed: 373403 - Bogus Vista Keys from 1.5.0.10 Shim Need Cleaned Up When Installing Thunderbird
• Fixed: 376877 - Investigate duplicate all-l10n.js packaging in windows installer
• Fixed: 385768 - Drafts folder claims to have one unread message after update to 2.0.0.4
• Fixed: 390071 - Save as, detach, delete not available for multiple selected attachments
• Fixed: 391600 - Setting start page location to about: shows about: page but without thunderbird icon
• Fixed: 392016 - User certificates are not retrieved if Address Autocompletion for LDAP is (globally) disabled
• Fixed: 393860 - Thunderbird account manager: Grouping information no longer exposed to screen readers on all platforms
• Fixed: 397621 - Thunderbird Nightlies/RCs/Beta builds should have different branding to full releases like Firefox
• Fixed: 412252 - Make it easier for extensions to overlay the TB context-menus by adding IDs
• Fixed: 412253 - Make it easier for extensions to overlay the TB mail toolbar by adding IDs
• Fixed: 417354 - Remove timeouts from Thunderbird startup
• Fixed: 420469 - Remove superfluous access key in Account settings -> Server settings
• Fixed: 422474 - Excise nsMsgFilterDataSource and friends
• Fixed: 423956 - Global inbox is missing after creating a first account which uses global inbox - No mail receiving possible then
• Fixed: 424756 - [Mac] If there’s an open about window, activate it on Thunderbird->About Mozilla Thunderbird
• Fixed: 428603 - cvs remove installer.inc from /mail
• Fixed: 430974 - app-license.html is missing closing </p>
• Fixed: 431247 - "Get All New Messages" was broken (same action as "Get Mail" on selected account/folder)
• Fixed: 431632 - Thunderbird doesn’t need to ship addressbook-panel
• Fixed: 431681 - Add nn-NO to Thunderbird all-locales
• Fixed: 431746 - No access keys for Recent, File here and Copy here in folder menus
• Fixed: 431978 - Don’t pass strings to setTimeout
• Fixed: 432026 - Various accessibility fixes in mail/base/content XUL files
• Fixed: 432029 - Accessibility fixes in mail/components/addressbook XUL files
• Fixed: 432030 - Accessibility fixes in mail/components/migration XUL files
• Fixed: 432033 - Accessibility fixes in mail/components/preferences XUL files
• Fixed: 432037 - Accessibility fixes in mail/extensions/newsblog XUL files.
• Fixed: 432039 - Accessibility fixes in mail/extensions/smime XUL files.
• Fixed: 432046 - Accessibility fixes in mailnews/base/prefs Account Manager XUL files.
• Fixed: 432052 - Accessibility fixes for mailnews/base/prefs and mailnews/compose/prefs XUL files.
• Fixed: 432054 - Accessibility fixes for mailnews/base XUL files.
• Fixed: 432188 - Swap Thunderbird to use www.mozillamessaging.com for in-product pages
• Fixed: 432194 - Remove stray bits of abSelectAddressesDialog
• Fixed: 432267 - Cannot Move/Copy using Recent menu
• Fixed: 432382 - Cmd+? does not give Help (? in the shifted position) on Tb
• Fixed: 432505 - customizing toolbar+ adding File button causes error/disabled right-click Customize…
• Fixed: 432568 - Thunderbird should use unified toolbar styling on OS X
• Fixed: 433087 - Close button on tabs looks cut off
• Fixed: 433197 - View Message Source shows blank page
• Fixed: 433202 - Crash when trying to search in a deleted address book
• Fixed: 433220 - Thunderbird build broken with IPluginW
• Fixed: 433264 - Address book doesn’t appear after upgrade
• Fixed: 433331 - crash clicking on a message or an imap folder [@ nsTArray<unsigned int>::InsertElementsAt<int>(unsigned int, unsigned int, int const&)]
• Fixed: 433470 - Unnecessary array filling in mailCommands.js deleteAllInFolder
• Fixed: 433519 - Add a shipped-locales file for Tb3
• Fixed: 433690 - nominated word by spell checker disappear on the context menu in the writing window
• Fixed: 434978 - Addressbook view not updated when a new card is created while creating a new mailing list
• Fixed: 435804 - Remaining rdf cleanup for FilterListDialog
• Fixed: 436060 - Prompt to send "unsent" pauses startup
• Fixed: 436166 - pt-PT thunderbird to Mozilla l10n tinderbox
• Fixed: 436630 - Thunderbird should not use the rdf-infected msgFolderPickerOverlay
• Fixed: 436673 - de-rdfify folderProps.xul
• Fixed: 436677 - Clean up rdf consumers of the addressbook
• Fixed: 436692 - Remove mailWindowExtrasOverlay
• Fixed: 436701 - Clean up msgSelectOffline include story
• Fixed: 436718 - Only convert from a uri to a folder through GetMsgFolderForUri, not by using the rdf service directly
• Fixed: 436799 - add help menu (and mac window menu) to "view source" windows
• Fixed: 436869 - non-standard MIME types, application/x-pkcs7-mime and application/x-pkcs7-signature - don’t need the x- prefix
• Fixed: 437099 - filter list doesn’t stretch to full height as it should
• Fixed: 437168 - Fix Pinstripe smiley CSS
• Fixed: 437187 - Adding ka (Georgian) to Thunderbird all-locales
• Fixed: 437860 - Lots of windows/dialogs declare the nc-rdf namespace when they don’t need to
• Fixed: 438050 - default client dialog comes up in before all other windows, placed at 0,0
• Fixed: 438533 - Support Windows x64 build for mailnews
• Fixed: 438778 - Some menus and menupopups in address book and compose don’t have IDs
• Fixed: 438808 - Thunderbird is unnecessarily including extra locale files and preprocessing others.
• Fixed: 438834 - fcc2 (Send Copy to menu in composition window) does not work, regression from #413781
• Fixed: 439128 - Migrate most of the profile migrator code away from nsISupportsArray
• Fixed: 439311 - Empty Junk option broken on Thunderbird
• Fixed: 439320 - Use timed textbox in mailnews and addressbook (port bug 179050 to Thunderbird)
• Fixed: 439364 - Eliminate GetResourceForUri
• Fixed: 439367 - De-rdfifiy msgViewNavigation.js
• Fixed: 439373 - Remove front end users of nsIMsgRDFDatasource
• Fixed: 439378 - Renaming folders busted with undefined preselectedURI in dump()
• Fixed: 439380 - Unread counts incorrect after IMAP filter move
• Fixed: 439486 - Right-clicking on an IMAP or NNTP folder, selecting Subscribe displays empty folder list
• Fixed: 439601 - use of wbr tag by YahooGroups corrupts text in simple HTML view
• Fixed: 439839 - Next and previous keyboard shortcuts and menus broken
• Fixed: 440196 - Create new search and filter create dialogs don’t work.
• Fixed: 440222 - messenger.xul doesn’t need to include msgAccountCentral.js
• Fixed: 440286 - Add Thunderbird UI for System Proxy Settings (port firefox bug 416274)
• Fixed: 440513 - Thunderbird always displays "Delete" in Address Book edit menu, despite code being there for more (also port bug 112959)
• Fixed: 440561 - Drag and drop of folders broken
• Fixed: 440706 - New copies and folders menus lack icons
• Fixed: 441126 - Thunderbird doesn’t use the Communicator:WorkMode broadcaster
• Fixed: 441342 - Get rid of empty <contextHelp.js>
• Fixed: 441429 - In <FilterEditor.xul>, "Warning: Failed to load overlay from chrome://messenger/content/msgFolderPickerOverlay.xul."
• Fixed: 441448 - Folder dialogs have useless includes
• Fixed: 441476 - No icons in addressbook search results in Pinstripe
• Fixed: 441480 - doHelpButton() doesn’t help
• Fixed: 441750 - Clicking on column headers doesn’t change the sort.
• Fixed: 441940 - Clean up msgSynchronize’s include/global story
• Fixed: 442052 - Update preferences for "browser.download.manager.useWindow"
• Fixed: 442246 - In <am-offline.xul>, "Warning: Failed to load overlay from chrome://messenger/content/msgFolderPickerOverlay.xul."
• Fixed: 442337 - GetSelectedIndices busted
• Fixed: 442360 - Drag and drop of folders broken (yet again)
• Fixed: 442523 - Clean up some unused Pinstripe bits
• Fixed: 442549 - Add ids to accountCentral
• Fixed: 442874 - Remove some unnecessary force overrides in mail/base/jar.mn
• Fixed: 443539 - Remove mail-biff-badge vestiges
• Fixed: 443671 - Remove 3pane layout preference leftovers
• Fixed: 443846 - thunderbird connection settings dialog should make use of type="number" textboxes

IMAP, News, POP and SMTP-related: (10)

• Fixed: 64580 - NNTP logs XPAT twice
• Fixed: 265441 - GetDiskSpaceAvailable returned: -623808512 bytes
• Fixed: 401674 - [@ nsImapIncomingServer::StopPopulating]
• Fixed: 417957 - Setting mail.auth_login and mail.server.default.auth_login to false breaks IMAP after restart
• Fixed: 434110 - imap subscribe UI doesn’t handle folders with a leading hierarchy delimiter
• Fixed: 434644 - Crash [@ nsMsgImapHdrXferInfo::GetHeader] when accessing IMAP folder
• Fixed: 436195 - "ASSERTION: invalid min or max param: ‘min <= max && min > 0′" when accessing a newsgroup
• Fixed: 436847 - Implement an SMTP fake server testing scheme for /mailnews
• Fixed: 438724 - imap code should treat $label1-5 like any other keyword
• Fixed: 440712 - In <smtpEditOverlay.js>, "Warning: assignment to undeclared variable gSmtpUseSecAuth"

MailNews and other related categories: (127)

• Fixed: 11054 - Ignore (kill) a Subthread (branch: not the whole thread) (Troll)
• Fixed: 22102 - Load next message before performing IMAP delete/move
• Fixed: 23394 - Quote just the selected portion of a message during Reply
• Fixed: 58775 - remove empty threads from db when last msg header is deleted to improve performance
• Fixed: 59279 - investigate Mork memory allocation improvements
• Fixed: 72899 - fix GetHasSubFolders() and fix nsMsgFolderDataSource::createFolderChildNode to use it
• Fixed: 76601 - remove extra str copy in nsMsgMailNewsUrl::SchemeIs() when #73845 is fixed
• Fixed: 134590 - (Temporarily) Duplicated Address Listing
• Fixed: 169588 - make nsIMIMEConverter minimally scriptable
• Fixed: 181165 - Deleting an address card (of a Mailing List) doesn’t refresh card-pane; stale entry shown.
• Fixed: 181561 - Changed priority via filter doesn’t follow message if moved.
• Fixed: 186547 - <comi18n.cpp>: Fix compiler build warnings. And update <prprf.*>.
• Fixed: 186729 - mailbox service NewURI should use callqueryinterface
• Fixed: 187768 - allow filter of "To or CC" to use "is in Address Book…" and "is not in Address Book…"
• Fixed: 190974 - [IMAP] Can’t manage mail by ‘deleted’ flag
• Fixed: 214024 - Crash [@ nsMsgFolder::GetExpansionArray]
• Fixed: 214751 - Clean up ReverseThreads() and ReverseSort()
• Fixed: 217034 - Restore capability: "Label"/"Tag" as filter criterion
• Fixed: 228675 - Limit growth of junk token store
• Fixed: 229032 - modernize ‘String’ usage in mailnews
• Fixed: 261467 - Spaces not stripped from end-of-line on Send (plain-text compose, wrap column=0)
• Fixed: 273114 - When forwarding messages signature line is placed after forwarded message (should obey reply signature position pref)
• Fixed: 278383 - Get All New Messages doesn’t work with movemail account
• Fixed: 289467 - MailNews should not use simple-uri
• Fixed: 341312 - Wrong event-name
• Fixed: 342934 - Double-clicking LDAP directory should edit
• Fixed: 350693 - "Character Encoding" in "View Source" window doesn’t work
• Fixed: 353036 - "Label is None" custom view lists no messages instead of unlabeled/untagged ['No Tag' filter]
• Fixed: 362396 - Attachments: Detaching an attachment created an invalid URL for attachment
• Fixed: 366837 - "LDAP server connection failed" message erases address, user can’t edit address
• Fixed: 372786 - Keynote files sent as attachments cannot be opened by the receiver of the e-mail
• Fixed: 382446 - Alert on shutdown when using ldaps address book - "operation can not be completed because of an internal failure. A secure network communication has not been cleaned up correctly."
• Fixed: 384599 - want pref to quote text attachment in reply
• Fixed: 389655 - square in Bind DN field instead national sign
• Fixed: 397811 - Enable Mac OS X system address book per default and add UI
• Fixed: 406921 - Address book listener on nsIAddrBookSession.added notify flag receives multiple "onItemAdded" calls
• Fixed: 410177 - Drop nsISupportsArray usage from Address Book where possible
• Fixed: 411988 - hang in nsMsgSearchTerm::MatchArbitraryHeader while getting mail
• Fixed: 413077 - Fake server testing scheme for mailnews/
• Fixed: 414179 - Add junkpercent support to nsIMsgSearchTerm
• Fixed: 414432 - Change nsIMsgHeaderParser::makeFullAddress to use AStrings and provide a string noscript implementation
• Fixed: 418777 - LDAP autocomplete only success on anonymous access
• Fixed: 419143 - Ignore thread filter action doesn’t
• Fixed: 420472 - Implement Mail.app importer in mailnews core
• Fixed: 420614 - Drop nsAdapterEnumerator
• Fixed: 420616 - Drop nsISupportsArray usage from nsImapIncomingServer
• Fixed: 421443 - Remove rdf dependent methods from nsIMessenger.idl
• Fixed: 424528 - warning: ‘isReadInDB’ may be used uninitialized in nsMsgDatabase::MarkHdrRead
• Fixed: 424767 - start page "about:" gives XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
• Fixed: 428040 - two blank lines are inserted after signature when top-posting
• Fixed: 428614 - Crash every time I try to read news [@SearchTable]
• Fixed: 428729 - setting "watch thread" does not work as a filter action
• Fixed: 431404 - Memory leak (n * 60 bytes) when tags are migrated from version 1 to 2
• Fixed: 431414 - Review MailNews uses of idl functions that return xpcom allocated arrays [..., array, ...] for memory leaks
• Fixed: 431415 - nsIAbBooleanExpression::a[sg]etExpression don’t do anything
• Fixed: 431806 - Unnecessary warnings when opening a local .eml file
• Fixed: 432056 - Accessibility fixes for mailnews/import XUL files.
• Fixed: 432812 - Provide "global" setup and cleanup scripts for mailnews tests and tidy up
• Fixed: 432885 - Removing the mailing list add/remove hack from nsAbMDBDirFactory.cpp causes test_collection.js to fail
• Fixed: 433043 - nsIMsgFolder doesn’t need to inherit from nsICollection
• Fixed: 433175 - freeze when specific custom tags are added in a specific order. (A tag, "abc", and tag of substring of the tag, "bc", then loop in saved search of "Tag contains bc")
• Fixed: 433307 - Move nsMsgBiffManager from nsVoidArray to nsTArray
• Fixed: 433405 - itemAdded event not called when a message is sent or draft is saved
• Fixed: 433687 - Clean up nsISmtpUrl/nsIMailtoUrl and tidy some other mailnews url functions
• Fixed: 433697 - Enable .wdseml file opening support for Mail/News
• Fixed: 433740 - itemDeleted event not fired when item is deleted from trash
• Fixed: 433853 - Crash [@ nsMsgContentPolicy::ShouldLoad]
• Fixed: 433854 - Crash [@ nsDependentCString::nsDependentCString][@ nsImapService::StreamMessage]
• Fixed: 433855 - Crash [@ nsAbLDAPProcessReplicationData::Done]
• Fixed: 434493 - Drop more instances of nsISupportsArray in mailnews.
• Fixed: 434528 - hangs high cpu attempting to delete an AB entry
• Fixed: 434708 - When creating folders don’t iterate the directory whilst we are changing its contents, and remove a couple of bogus warnings.
• Fixed: 434746 - Make mailnews/addrbook compile with frozen linkage on mac
• Fixed: 434748 - Make mailnews/base/search compile with frozen linkage
• Fixed: 434810 - For mailnews unit tests, move setup/teardown to called functions
• Fixed: 434920 - delete/rename imap folder doesn’t show in the UI until collapse/expand
• Fixed: 435153 - Better Faster IMAP: Pseudo-offline Delete and Move support
• Fixed: 435228 - nsMsgMailSesssion::AddFolderListener allows duplicate listeners
• Fixed: 435241 - Remove NS_NewPipe usage from mailnews
• Fixed: 435259 - playing back offline delete of unread IMAP message gets unread count in Trash wrong
• Fixed: 435290 - Remove nsISupportsArray instances from parts of base, local, and imap
• Fixed: 435462 - nsIMsgFolder::getChildNamed should return nsIMsgFolder not nsISupports
• Fixed: 435483 - crash after purge service runs
• Fixed: 435587 - Crash [@ nsMsgCompose::ProcessSignature] when htmlSigText is set but no signature file is given
• Fixed: 436051 - nsIMsgFolder::getFoldersWithFlag abuses idl interface conventions
• Fixed: 436086 - Change nsMsgDBFolder::mSubFolders to a nsCOMArray instead of a nsISupportsArray
• Fixed: 436104 - Potentially erratic searching through address books
• Fixed: 436214 - Deleting an imap message offline can cause an assertion nsMsgHdr::SetThreadParent "can’t be your own parent
• Fixed: 436792 - Incorrect RDF Data Source function prototypes following nsISupportsArray patch in bug 435290 (IsCommandEnabled, DoCommand)
• Fixed: 436793 - Inconsistent function prototypes for DownloadMessagesForOffline and DeleteSubFolders functions
• Fixed: 436848 - Make it possible to specify the ldap_2.servers. preference when creating an address book
• Fixed: 436960 - selecting saved search with a lot of results can be slow
• Fixed: 437035 - Remove Mac OS X AB specific override for creating a Mac OS X AB via UI.
• Fixed: 437098 - Enable junk token limits
• Fixed: 437556 - Mailnews crashes while importing an address book if a field map is required but not set
• Fixed: 437619 - Centralise and de-branch the Address Book results view functions
• Fixed: 437848 - Moving a local folder with subfolders causes infinite recursion
• Fixed: 437903 - Can’t send emails to OS X mailing lists.
• Fixed: 437975 - Can’t send emails to non-mork mailing lists
• Fixed: 438035 - nsAbView does dangerous things to nsIAbDirectory objects and doesn’t clean up itself as a listener
• Fixed: 438333 - Make determining which address books to search on autocomplete a lot easier
• Fixed: 438335 - CopyRequest not cleared when local folder is moved
• Fixed: 438654 - Set imap keywords for junk messages in manual junk analysis.
• Fixed: 438786 - single folder saved search folders no longer work
• Fixed: 439132 - removing tags from local messages sometimes doesn’t survive rebuild index
• Fixed: 439266 - Leak of array if rv != NS_OK in BuildSearchElements()
• Fixed: 439475 - Crash [@ConvertToCard] when deleting card/mailing list from Mac OS X Address Book and Thunderbird Address Book is open
• Fixed: 439494 - folderRenamed nsIMsgFolderListener notification in local folders broken
• Fixed: 439498 - Its possible to attempt to delete mailing lists from OS X Address book via TB
• Fixed: 439548 - When tag name is substring of other tag, tag can not be added.
• Fixed: 439835 - When "X-Mozilla-Keys: abc bc" exists(bc is substring of abc), Thunderbird freezes(loop,CPU 100%) when Virtual Folder(saved search folder) of "Tags contains bc" is created
• Fixed: 439925 - nsMsgCopyService::CopyMessages not working as intended in xpcshell tests on Mac OS X
• Fixed: 440185 - crash importing outlook email [@ nsMsgLocalMailFolder::IsChildOfTrash]
• Fixed: 440190 - crash importing outlook contact csv data file [@ nsTextAddress::GetField]
• Fixed: 440219 - deleted imap messages reappear and disappear rapidly
• Fixed: 441043 - Change nsIMsgFolderListener folderDeleted notification to fire only for the topmost folder deleted
• Fixed: 441075 - mailto:?body= gives corrupted body (send link from firefox gets corrupted) in plain text composition
• Fixed: 441220 - Port |Bug 183419 – Message Filter dialog and Search dialogs (Message, Address) need close facilities (was buttons)| to Thunderbird
• Fixed: 441586 - Autocomplete not matching nicknames for mailing lists
• Fixed: 441914 - Add missing error checks in search views
• Fixed: 441916 - Consolidate UpdateSummaryTotals into nsMsgDBFolder
• Fixed: 441987 - Run Junk Mail Controls on Folder broken (again)
• Fixed: 442256 - Make getURIs/IndicesForSelection easier to call from JS
• Fixed: 442800 - Add database listener to local GetDBFolderInfoAndDB
• Fixed: 443035 - Some Address Book functions are disabled when the abResultsTree has focus
• Fixed: 443296 - morkRowCellCursor::NextCell skips first cell
• Fixed: 444417 - IMAP undo of delete appears to work, but doesn’t

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