The Rumbling Edge

Previous TB pre-release – Beta 1 | Current TB pre-release – Beta 2 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Thunderbird-specific: (36)

• Fixed: 260744 - “Opening file” dialog could use more precise instructions
• Fixed: 289683 - Using filters to copy an incoming message first and move it afterwards brokes the filter engine
• Fixed: 290057 - Thunderbird should integrate with the Spotlight Search
• Fixed: 368617 - Account setting “OK” button not saving data (due to junk settings).
• Fixed: 376089 - open .eml files from the command line using relative path fails
• Fixed: 428266 - keep IMAP folders up-to-date using the STATUS command
• Fixed: 456014 - consider enabling mathml in thunderbird
• Fixed: 461711 - rebrand “RSS News & Blogs” to “Blogs & News Feeds”
• Fixed: 468471 - Move Spotlight metadata out of the profile dir so results get shown
• Fixed: 470522 - Threadpane context menuitem “Open Message in New Tab” should hide and enable in parallel with “Open Message in New Window”
• Fixed: 471932 - Do some tidy up/fixing of feed subscription and related code
• Fixed: 473483 - unable to re-connect to mail server after laptop awakes from sleep state
• Fixed: 473534 - Resize mail compose headers-box
• Fixed: 477254 - Saved Search with Match All Messages does not persist
• Fixed: 477862 - Activity Manager: activity list doesn’t clear permanently until restart
• Fixed: 477967 - inline forwarded messages show too much html composition chrome, redux
• Fixed: 478415 - Thunderbird 3 Address book keyboard shortcut wanted
• Fixed: 479602 - double accesskey ‘a’ in menubar’s Edit menu
• Fixed: 479857 - “a” access key for Address Book conflicts with Activity Manager in Tools menu
• Fixed: 480388 - New Account Wizard is shown on every startup although RSS account exists
• Fixed: 480515 - Thunderbird 3.0 failed to build on Solaris
• Fixed: 481249 - Archiving doesn’t work in the stand-alone message viewer
• Fixed: 481855 - Multiple Tabs render last opened when no message pane
• Fixed: 482039 - server type is tested for “news” (should be “nntp”)
• Fixed: 482167 - newUri typo in folderpane.js causes error
• Fixed: 482181 - Stop dumping expected conditions in MsgComposeCommands
• Fixed: 482253 - Fix Activity Manager’s themes so that text can be read when window is not focused, and make it easier for themes to be applied across all activity types
• Fixed: 482321 - make linux “search messages” be ctrl+shift+f like other platforms
• Fixed: 482466 - Hook activity manager into the new alert/error listening mechanism
• Fixed: 482610 - tango preferences icons
• Fixed: 482620 - Fix accesskey attribute in mailWindowOverlay.xul
• Fixed: 482623 - change ‘Privacy’ tab to ‘Security’
• Fixed: 482693 - Ctrl + Mouse Left Click opens message in new Tab instead just selecting multiple messages
• Fixed: 483458 - Kill some more wallet leftovers
• Fixed: 484179 - updated appearance for remote-blocked image
• Fixed: 484184 - Add bn-BD (Bengali – Bangladesh) to mail/all-locales

MailNews Core: (43)

• Fixed: 140982 - some multipart/alternative message doesn’t display correctly
• Fixed: 153930 - Attachments without suffix are given MIME type application/x-java-vm
• Fixed: 186728 - smtp service NewURI should use callqueryinterface
• Fixed: 216155 - tools/import/mail/application back button will not respond if error (e.g. comm4x/outlook)
• Fixed: 279745 - (erroneous?) quote as block comment triggers plain text conversion warning
• Fixed: 308118 - When binding to an LDAP server, Thunderbird should attempt GSSAPI (Kerberos) Authentication if available
• Fixed: 330273 - IMAP releases non-threadsafe objects off-thread
• Fixed: 330320 - Restart using “Collected Addresses” AB for collected addresses
• Fixed: 366968 - Forward/Reply filter does not update message status for the forwarded/replied message
• Fixed: 370440 - Tags are lost on messages with attachment in IMAP (when the server doesn’t supports any keywords)
• Fixed: 376192 - Thunderbird crashes immediately upon accessing IMAP server (duplicate entries in .mailboxlist) [@ nsImapServerResponseParser::mailbox] – imap protocol log “Internal Syntax Error
• Fixed: 381472 - copy of message(to local mail folder) from imap folder synced for offline(offline use=ON) gets corrupted headers(“>From -” and duplicated X-Mozilla-Status:)
• Fixed: 392307 - Time Zone never displayed within message headers
• Fixed: 412690 - Drafts/Templates/Outbox should be excluded from the retention policy
• Fixed: 443851 - All parts of a mailto: URI’s query string except body should be mime-decoded
• Fixed: 450134 - Investigate possible performance improvement for autocomplete by using the directory search facilities
• Fixed: 466318 - crash [@ nsProxyObjectCallInfo::RefCountInInterfacePointers] and variation [@ @0x14c0] … [@ nsProxyObjectCallInfo::RefCountInInterfacePointers]
• Fixed: 470907 - Thunderbird always uses port 119 for NNTP, ignoring port configured in server settings
• Fixed: 473091 - Saved Search doesnt allow “Tags isn’t empty”
• Fixed: 476911 - Investigate closing of backup message database
• Fixed: 478360 - Support inherited folder properties
• Fixed: 479214 - Gloda JS mime emitter needs to deal with character set and encoding issues.
• Fixed: 479844 - Consolidate checking for messages to send later into one function
• Fixed: 480870 - Crash on startup with imap account from old tb2 profile
• Fixed: 481065 - local folder db’s opened on startup
• Fixed: 481198 - need to be able to clear msgWindow on a url
• Fixed: 481200 - Test case for nsIMsgFolder::downloadAllForOffline on IMAP folders
• Fixed: 481431 - Provide a centralised alert/message service in mailnews to allow different front-end displays for alerts
• Fixed: 481590 - Headers were displayed inline, reading Messages will not mark them as read
• Fixed: 481667 - Support BCC in message summary files
• Fixed: 481676 - Move bayes listeners to nsMsgDBFolder
• Fixed: 481824 - nsMsgDBView grouping logic is buggy, needs unit tests
• Fixed: 482059 - imap verify logon shouldn’t discover folders
• Fixed: 482112 - |xpcshell/head.js:160: Error: cannot open file ‘/buildbot/linux-comm-central-check/build/mozilla/mailnews/test/resources/mailDirService.js’ for reading|
• Fixed: 482296 - Add attribute to nsIMsgMailNewsUrl to determine whether this is for a message
• Fixed: 482416 - Gloda jsmimeemitter.js error: this._curBodyPart is null
• Fixed: 482686 - comm-central should pull Venkman from hg rather than CVS
• Fixed: 482696 - ConvertAndSanitizeFileName does not need to call NS_CopyUnicodeToNative
• Fixed: 483022 - Bayes processing dies without calling listeners on UTF conversion errors
• Fixed: 483212 - Linux comm-central trunk nightly failing in build symbols step
• Fixed: 483593 - Tidy up case-insensitive comments in nsAbMDBDirectory::CardForEmailAddress and extend unit test for insensitive options.
• Fixed: 483629 - Add BCC to AllAddresses term in local search
• Fixed: 483764 - Switch database caches from nsVoidArray to nsTArray

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3+ with Target Milestone of Thunderbird 3 Beta 3) – newly listed bugs are italicized: (84)

• Since 2002-01-24: 121647 – POP/IMAP server passwords are inappropriately forgotten
• Since 2002-02-04: 123440 – Stop that annoying modal dialog when mail can’t connect to the mail server from connection time out error
• Since 2003-10-02: 221030 – Unable to set up IMAP over SSL using the New Account Wizard
• Since 2004-09-03: 257942 – activity manager tracker
• Since 2005-06-04: 296655 – selection of multiple mailboxes/folders in the folders pane is possible but not usable
• Since 2005-08-20: 305340 – Smart folders, with Recent Searches in the Folder Pane
• Since 2005-09-04: 307023 - Re-editing quoted-printable HTML message (Open Draft, Forward Inline, Edit-as-New) shows corruption of tag attributes (<img> <body> etc)
• Since 2005-10-15: 312593 – thunderbird says the password/login failed when using symbols in passwords
• Since 2005-12-04: 319037 – Provide default value for mailnews.localizedRe
• Since 2006-01-23: 324495 – put signature editing in UI (rather than select a file)
• Since 2006-05-19: 338549 – Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial
• Since 2006-12-16: 364082 – mail lost when moving from local to remote folder in offline mode
• Since 2007-01-23: 367896 – messages don’t show in threaded view with this 3 msg mbox (show in unthreaded view)
• Since 2007-01-31: 368924 – Scam list not enabled by default
• Since 2007-12-14: 408370 – STEEL 0.1
• Since 2007-12-20: 409259 – Thunderbird timeouts of IMAP operations
• Since 2008-03-13: 422814 – Make account configuration quick, easy, and more secure
• Since 2008-04-11: 428611 – failure to report invalid pop3 account password
• Since 2008-05-14: 433794 – security review for plugin enabling in thunderbird
• Since 2008-06-20: 440794 – Leverage Offline capabilities to make sending email appear faster
• Since 2008-07-08: 444093 – Spec out nsIAbItem::uuid more clearly
• Since 2008-07-27: 448198 – f=f: Reply to non-f=f message containing certain characters breaks quoting
• Since 2008-07-30: 448550 – can’t move more than 2 folders to an imap folder
• Since 2008-08-26: 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
• Since 2008-09-24: 456839 – nsAutoSyncManager needs to expose method(s) to cancel on going download operations
• Since 2008-09-25: 457079 – “ASSERTION: downloading hdrs for hdr we already have”
• Since 2008-09-26: 457296 – separate address list for addresses allowed to load remote images for email
• Since 2008-10-01: 458069 – ctrl-t should open a new tab
• Since 2008-10-11: 459487 - OnItemIntPropertyChanged not fired with BiffState atom when IMAP + folder selected for offline use (No New Mail/Biff Notification)
• Since 2008-10-19: 460648 – compact message header: Focus disappears when moving through header contacts
• Since 2008-10-25: 461660 – “Allow remote images in HTML mail” state not saved across restarts
• Since 2008-11-04: 463155 – Add video/audio controls to message context menu, since the regular controls depend on JavaScript
• Since 2008-11-10: 464106 – compact header view: no S/MIME signature and encryption status indicators displayed
• Since 2008-11-11: 464354 – Pref enable gloda by default
• Since 2008-11-16: 465269 – Folder location toolbar item does not work
• Since 2008-11-18: 465577 – exception clicking on “Always allow images from …” since Mac OS X address book is readonly
• Since 2008-11-18: 465618 – gloda deleted message processing logic is not purging messages
• Since 2008-11-18: 465633 – Ship a better monospaced font for plain text email messages
• Since 2008-11-20: 466048 – Thunderbird freezes/slow when selecting threaded Saved Search
• Since 2008-11-21: 466227 – gloda should index messages that are not offline too (headers only)
• Since 2008-11-24: 466527 – Setting the mail start page to non-redirects causes bad display of what’s new tab.
• Since 2008-11-25: 466644 – “Unread messages” mode doesn’t update
• Since 2008-11-25: 466697 – Different tabs should allow different account collapse/expand state in folder pane
• Since 2008-12-02: 467527 – Restart needed for localized folder name (Drafts/Junk/Sent/Templates/Archives name in folderpane tree)
• Since 2008-12-03: 467768 – No way to make mail open in tabs by default
• Since 2008-12-07: 468373 – make explicit decision about adding pref ui for Spotlight/Vista search for Tb3
• Since 2008-12-09: 468656 – TB 3 fails to properly initialize on first start when TB 2 is already installed – 3pane is empty, no accounts listed
• Since 2008-12-10: 469087 – Open draft message cause a crash [@ mime_decode_qp_buffer ]
• Since 2008-12-16: 469878 – Unwrapping long header lines in the detailed view leaves the “more” indicator visible and active
• Since 2008-12-18: 470221 – imap autosync leaves db’s open
• Since 2008-12-18: 470336 – gloda review action items need to be converted to bugs or addressed
• Since 2008-12-21: 470650 – IMAP capability response ignored in greeting after authentication
• Since 2008-12-26: 471208 – Auto-Sync improvement: Using main window’s Focus/Unfocus events as TB idle
• Since 2008-12-31: 471695 – Select Offline -> Download / Sync Now doesn’t go offline (not downloading all emails)
• Since 2009-01-05: 472104 – Everything in the tabstrip has a Close Tab context menuitem, which only works right-clicking tabs
• Since 2009-01-08: 472764 – gloda full-text search always uses SQLite’s porter stemmer without regard to effective locale, etc.
• Since 2009-01-15: 473834 – Mail headers are unreadable in both normal and “all” modes due to size of “more”
• Since 2009-01-20: 474523 – remove reply, reply all, forward, delete, junk, and forward/back buttons from default mail toolbar
• Since 2009-01-21: 474701 – new search entry in default mail toolbar
• Since 2009-01-21: 474711 – search facets bar above search results tab
• Since 2009-01-21: 474725 – messagereader: message header / body can get out of sync
• Since 2009-01-26: 475482 – addons can set new folderpane modes, causing breakage if not reset
• Since 2009-01-28: 475852 – GMail IMAP specific archive action
• Since 2009-01-28: 475857 – gloda needs to specialize for gmail IMAP
• Since 2009-01-30: 476154 – Add a sidebar container for extensions to hook into
• Since 2009-02-02: 476487 – interactive status bar
• Since 2009-02-03: 476695 – Activity Manager: Need theme work
• Since 2009-02-03: 476696 – Activity Manager: Poptarts
• Since 2009-02-09: 477652 – create empty tab page
• Since 2009-02-09: 477734 – auto complete to explain tab usage in new search entry
• Since 2009-02-14: 478595 – Crashes on launch
• Since 2009-02-27: 480599 – Improve extensibility of message header pane
• Since 2009-02-27: 480623 – move compact message header view to an extension
• Since 2009-02-27: 480674 – Formulate content policy for Audio/Video tags
• Since 2009-03-09: 482397 – add some sort of regexp/wildcard to saved search scopes
• Since 2009-03-10: 482476 – Enable Space/Time policy for autosync
• Since 2009-03-10: 482477 – add a way to have a hidden account
• Since 2009-03-10: 482489 – Feedback/Alert notifications need identity/connection information
• Since 2009-03-10: 482492 – Feedback/Alert notifications need category information
• Since 2009-03-10: 482617 – add junk tab to preferences
• Since 2009-03-11: 482754 – Folders indicate new messages when no new messages present; message count incorrect as well
• Since 2009-03-17: 483857 – Debug assertions in gloda mime tests
• Since 2009-03-17: 483859 – “check this folder for new messages” doesn’t kick in anymore (for new mail in several folders)
• Since 2009-03-17: 483937 – Import of CSV address book silently fails

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