The Rumbling Edge

Previous Shredder – Alpha 2 | Current Shredder – Alpha 3 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Thunderbird-specific:

• Fixed: 273014 – [Mac Pinstripe] should use rss feed icon instead of regular folder icons
• Fixed: 275871 – View->Sort By->Grouped by Sort keyboard shortcut goes against interface guidelines (back out bug 263919)
• Fixed: 308552 – Growl Integration for Mail Alerts on Mac OS X
• Fixed: 309371 – unable to set hints_and_tips.url in any preferences since 20050907
• Fixed: 381659 – "Multipart/Encrypted" not supported, only "multipart/encrypted"
• Fixed: 400931 – Enable predefined IMAP settings for Gmail
• Fixed: 427311 – Choice of a subfolder at "When I delete a message/Move it to this folder" generate string of only lowest level name in mail.server.serverX.trash_folder_name
• Fixed: 430762 – Start page for Alpha/Beta builds
• Fixed: 432608 – Don’t use window.alert() from chrome code in mailnews/
• Fixed: 448706 – Remove "Wrap plain text messages at…" from prefs
• Fixed: 456834 – messagereader: get rid of use of Arial font
• Fixed: 456872 – create Advanced -> Display preference tab; move all relevant preferences to it
• Fixed: 457709 – tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 3
• Fixed: 457757 – assertion when trying to restore selection to missing message
• Fixed: 457820 – Shredder reinstates deleted recipients
• Fixed: 458075 – thunderbird-bin shouldn’t try and link directly with libtracemalloc anymore
• Fixed: 458601 – port the full zoom UI to thunderbird
• Fixed: 458623 – update comm-central l10n.ini’s for l10n dashboard builds
• Fixed: 458675 – Don’t use window.alert() from chrome code in mail/
• Fixed: 458716 – Allow return/escape to always close the inline edit card dialog
• Fixed: 458859 – "You have removed header from" the tree
• Fixed: 458935 – Make Windows Search registry key verification work correctly on Vista x64
• Fixed: 458949 – Start page urls are incorrect (missing ‘&’)
• Fixed: 459099 – add ids to the menus that don’t have one already, in the editorOverlay.xuls
• Fixed: 459239 – Can’t open a folder in a new tab while showing Account Central
• Fixed: 459396 – teach client.py to hg pull -r tip to work around hg server race-condition
• Fixed: 459419 – Add Received and Newsgroups headers to Windows Search .wdseml messages
• Fixed: 459784 – Error: uncaught exception: 2147500034
• Fixed: 459871 – Can’t pull comm-central from THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_RELEASE with client.py
• Fixed: 460456 – checkDefaultClient pref should be turned off when running leak tests

MailNews Core:

• Fixed: 299932 – fix nsIMimeEmitter to use proper case
• Fixed: 420830 – Expose mime_create() to content type handler plugins
• Fixed: 450991 – Number in "Order Received" column becomes negative, when mail’s offset in local mail folder file exceeds 2GB
• Fixed: 453881 – Split Bayes tokenizer into message and store versions
• Fixed: 454073 – Fix regressions from bug 413260 related to |aimScreenName|
• Fixed: 455931 – Removing the first tag on a message reports: ###!!! ASSERTION: space only keyword
• Fixed: 455963 – IMAP assertion: db has key – flagState messed up?
• Fixed: 456247 – Add option to streamMessage to disallow streaming over the network
• Fixed: 457539 – generated md5 message-ids are dodgy
• Fixed: 457695 – Drop old xpfe autocomplete based local address book search code.
• Fixed: 457784 – Turning autosync_offline_stores pref off doesn’t turn auto-sync off for offline INBOXs
• Fixed: 457859 – Update packaging fails in comm-central when using official branding.
• Fixed: 458685 – encode mime functions in nsIMimeConverter fail when scripted
• Fixed: 458692 – Drop charset parameter from nsIMsgHeaderParser interfaces
• Fixed: 459000 – Address book comment cleanup
• Fixed: 459335 – Remove leftover(!?) TPATH_LEN
• Fixed: 459358 – It is possible to attempt to create new cards/lists in read-only address books.
• Fixed: 460058 – SEGV when trying to view plain text emails (with missing content type) crash [@ nsDependentCString::nsDependentCString]

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3+ with Target Milestone of Thunderbird 3 Beta 1): (66)

• Open: 121647 – POP/IMAP server passwords are inappropriately forgotten
• Open: 123440 – Stop that annoying modal dialog when mail can’t connect to the mail server from connection time out error
• Open: 218999 – Thunderbird should use a tabbed interface (thundertab)
• Open: 221030 – Unable to set up IMAP over SSL using the New Account Wizard
• Open: 239131 – Thunderbird should use the new password manager
• Open: 296453 – With IMAP, racing CPU, Slow performance moving/deleting large number of messages
• Open: 307023 – Re-editing quoted-printable HTML message (Open Draft, Forward Inline, Edit-as-New) shows corruption of tag attributes (<img> <body> etc)
• Open: 338549 – Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial
• Open: 360648 – [Meta] TB toolkit autocomplete migration
• Open: 364082 – mail lost when moving from local to remote folder in offline mode
• Open: 364376 – Not all Message header fields are focusable by <tab> (Keyboard accessability)
• Open: 367896 – messages don’t show in threaded view with this 3 msg mbox (show in unthreaded view)
• Open: 368924 – Scam list not enabled by default
• Open: 369096 – confusing preferences choices re: offline data storage
• Open: 370306 – Move Address Book’s autocomplete (and addressing widget) implementation to be based on toolkit’s
• Open: 385502 – investigate turning on offline imap by default
• Open: 392328 – [Meta] tracking bug for thunderbird tabbed interface problems
• Open: 392330 – thread pane sometimes doesn’t match focused tab
• Open: 396874 – copy sent mail into sent-mail folder failed
• Open: 404489 – filters using as custom mail header "Sender" do not work (matches From instead)
• Open: 408370 – STEEL 0.1
• Open: 413260 – Refactor the Address Book interfaces
• Open: 419597 – importing from outlook express fails completely
• Open: 422814 – Make account configuration quick, easy, and more secure
• Open: 424219 – when "find in message" is active in message preview and find input field is empty, then focus is stolen by find when clicking on a folder or a message in thread pane
• Open: 427627 – enable jemalloc on thunderbird trunk
• Open: 429118 – Spellcheck gives up after too few misspelled words in HTML editor
• Open: 429817 – background-image not working in non-chrome user stylesheets in thunderbird
• Open: 429843 – mailnews UI work to catch up with how certificate "security exceptions" are handled
• Open: 433316 – Implement backend changes for MailNews transfer from wallet to login manager.
• Open: 433567 – Replace Mozilla Corporation references with Mozilla Messaging
• Open: 436555 – attachment presentation in received messages needs improvement
• Open: 440793 – Optimize email workflow through better async
• Open: 440794 – Leverage Offline capabilities to make sending email appear faster
• Open: 448198 – f=f: Reply to non-f=f message containing certain characters breaks quoting
• Open: 449560 – Convert header email values (From/To/CC) from labels into read-only textboxes in message reading window/pane.
• Open: 450038 – "Help | Shredder Help" doesn’t redirect to a help site of the applications locale
• Open: 450494 – Global Database functionality should go in MailNews core
• Open: 452221 – When all mails has same subject(i.e. very long thread), time to take Shift+Delete of all mail seems to be O(num_of_mail**2), and "CPU 100% by the Shift+Delete locks UI while delete operation
• Open: 452232 – Move LDAP autocomplete over to toolkit interfaces
• Open: 452281 – search centric toolbar with download and write button
• Open: 453763 – nsIMsgFolderNotificationService needs a folderAdded notification
• Open: 453928 – Reevaluate mailnews use of CAPS
• Open: 453943 – Review JavaScript in mail/rss policies
• Open: 455098 – Crash [@ objc_msgSend] removing Junk button from toolbar
• Open: 455715 – Implement adding an email address to an existing contact from the message header view
• Open: 455835 – make sure the message header pane works with a11y themes
• Open: 455947 – subscribe dialog gives broken expression
• Open: 455964 – IMAP parser assertions since autosync turnon
• Open: 455966 – IMAP threadsafety assertions post-autosync landings
• Open: 455978 – need status and emergency brake UI for gloda
• Open: 456291 – Imap auto-sync updates folder that have "mail.check_new_mail" pref _off_
• Open: 456596 – emails with lots of addresses in the To: field should only show first N by default
• Open: 456601 – Thunderbird loses track of most of the messages in a folder
• Open: 456814 – Message reader enhancements (tracker)
• Open: 456839 – nsAutoSyncManager needs to expose method(s) to cancel on going download operations
• Open: 456940 – Customize Toolbar leads to doubled account list in "Get Mail" buttons drop down
• Open: 457052 – try to repair cause of assertion – Borked message header
• Open: 457079 – "ASSERTION: downloading hdrs for hdr we already have"
• Open: 457452 – Leaking nsAutoSyncManager on shutdown
• Open: 457736 – Inline contact editor could support freeform contact tags
• Open: 457751 – Delete, Rebuild Index, Undo sequence causes a crash on imap folder [@ morkRowObject::SetRow(nsIMdbEnv*, nsIMdbRow*) ]
• Open: 458255 – need update snippets for lightning nightly builds
• Open: 458410 – Add the new "Powered by Mozilla" logo to Thunderbird
• Open: 459482 – Dock Icon should show new mail at the same time as the growl alert
• Open: 459487 – OnItemIntPropertyChanged not fired with BiffState atom when IMAP + folder selected for offline use (No New Mail/Biff Notification)

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