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Shredder Alpha 3 Released

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Released on 14 Oct 08, and this changelog was last updated on 20 Oct 08.

Shredder Alpha 3 (also known as Thunderbird 3 Alpha 3) has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the improvements in Shredder Alpha 3 over Shredder Alpha 2. 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 3: (288)

Thunderbird-specific: (141)

  • Fixed: 230182 - "User-Agent" header, in sent messages, should contain more information
  • Fixed: 231654 - make delete normally only apply to the threadpane - too easy to accidentally delete folder
  • Fixed: 232252 - open drafts discarded without prompt on shutdown
  • Fixed: 234665 - Delete button should re-text to "Undelete" when a deleted message is selected
  • Fixed: 249620 - inconsistent labeling: folder context menu for account node is named properties but goes to account settings
  • Fixed: 259914 - quicksearch toolbar no longer displays "recipient" when focused on "Sent"
  • Fixed: 273008 - Paste without formatting preference or at least have an easy keybinding
  • Fixed: 279001 - Control-A and ctrl-T affect view setting when view field is focused - ctrl is ignored / hotkeys also fail
  • Fixed: 286761 - [rfe] change the RSS account icon ("globe") in the folderpane when a feed has new messages
  • Fixed: 288424 - filename of attachment is truncated at the first # when using mozilla-xremote-client
  • Fixed: 297236 - unable to dismiss about:config (Config Editor) window via keyboard
  • Fixed: 300487 - saved search folder name is bold without unread messages
  • Fixed: 305089 - Don’t mark as scam any mail composed by user (Drafts, Templates, Sent, Outbox folders)
  • Fixed: 320884 - search/filter by size doesn’t mention unit of Size (which is KB)
  • Fixed: 327378 - rss2 feeds should use guids as permalinks if available
  • Fixed: 327600 - quick searching for sender in "sent mail" and drafts folder actually searches for recipient
  • Fixed: 327908 - Advanced Options dialog (advanced.dtd) has too many entries for available unique accesskeys, thus some underlined letters conflict and are broken
  • Fixed: 328586 - "Save Image" should be "Save Image As…" and "Save Link Location" "Save Link As…" link in firefox
  • Fixed: 328749 - Phishing Detector APIs
  • Fixed: 329444 - messenger.xul l10n fixes
  • Fixed: 331113 - Investigate options to make the new mail alert notification narrower
  • Fixed: 335391 - Invalid value for "margin" property in mail/themes/pinstripe/mail/preferences/preferences.css
  • Fixed: 347994 - New mail alert is not displayed (folderSummaryInfoEl.parseFolder is not a function)
  • Fixed: 359284 - IMAP: Auto-expunge for IMAP mailboxes
  • Fixed: 369159 - missing access keys for Gmail, RSS News & Blogs, and Movemail account types in the account wizard
  • Fixed: 369283 - Thunderbird should support the Vista Search
  • Fixed: 373345 - Clicking "About Mozilla Thunderbird" has the build ID highlighted
  • Fixed: 378412 - Adding a "Gmail" account that already was entered manually results in invisible duplicate
  • Fixed: 381555 - "Show only display name" does only work for personal address book
  • Fixed: 382659 - Add ro (Romanian) to mail/locales/all-locales
  • Fixed: 384160 - Cannot send attachments with cli and file with accents
  • Fixed: 386158 - Sending receipt fails but no warning returns to user
  • Fixed: 387656 - Rename ‘Unsent’ folder to ‘Outbox’
  • Fixed: 404198 - Links from feed not properly escaped
  • Fixed: 404609 - Update Thunderbird installer with changes made to the Firefox installer
  • Fixed: 406227 - Enable Unit Tests on a Thunderbird trunk tinderbox
  • Fixed: 408861 - Thunderbird reports "mail server is not an imap4 mail server"
  • Fixed: 413487 - "brief" headers (normal mode) should display more or all of subject
  • Fixed: 422700 - Get bug 376238 fixed or disable images on drag feedback
  • Fixed: 422757 - mark all read Keyboard shortcuts are different on Linux and Windows even though they don’t need to anymore
  • Fixed: 425849 - Consider changing mail.imap.fetch_by_chunks pref value
  • Fixed: 426046 - "About" dialog: add full BuildID, as in Firefox
  • Fixed: 429929 - CPU consumption while inactive too high
  • Fixed: 431130 - xpcshell test test_nsIDownloadHistory.js fails on Thunderbird
  • Fixed: 432840 - [mac] Include symbolic link to Applications folder
  • Fixed: 432920 - Thunderbird fails to check that it is the default email client on startup
  • Fixed: 433107 - Drop down arrow for "To/CC/BCC/.." too close to the edge, widget doesn’t show focus
  • Fixed: 433801 - Make the account wizard extensible
  • Fixed: 437056 - run a message filter on a folder - "choose this folder" option missing, can’t run on folders with subfolders
  • Fixed: 437750 - New message still return preferred format window when we use "additional email" address
  • Fixed: 437869 - Remove the RDF global object
  • Fixed: 438375 - Default reply header should include timestamp
  • Fixed: 438918 - who wants a retention policy of "delete all but the last X messages" with X=30?
  • Fixed: 439304 - Assertions when autocompleting recipient (ASSERTION: Replacing?: ‘!m_AddressList || NS_FAILED(m_AddressList->IndexOf(0, aDirectory, &pos))’)
  • Fixed: 439431 - Cannot open attachments in saved .eml files
  • Fixed: 440366 - all keywords/tags of a mail will be deleted if I cut off (not delete) attachments
  • Fixed: 441666 - Filter dialog fails to list newsgroups
  • Fixed: 443344 - attachment filename corruption imported from Eudora (Japanese version).
  • Fixed: 443351 - Move all of Thunderbird’s unofficial/nightly branding items into mail/branding/nightly
  • Fixed: 443398 - Fix remaining parts of unofficial branding
  • Fixed: 443713 - Add sr (Serbian) to mail/locales/all-locales
  • Fixed: 443908 - "next" shortcut in account setup for News, Server information panel doesn’t work
  • Fixed: 443990 - Thread pane selection is lost upon "Compact Folders" from the file menu if no folders are compactable
  • Fixed: 444220 - Can’t change junk folder in account settings
  • Fixed: 444281 - More unused Pinstripe images
  • Fixed: 444940 - Unofficial-branded builds will prompt to set default client when installed (/updated) from a previously branded Thunderbird version.
  • Fixed: 444994 - In <folderWidgets.xml>, "Error: aFolder is null", loading "Junk Settings" panel
  • Fixed: 445501 - Two images on officially branded Thunderbird migration wizard
  • Fixed: 445708 - Disable official branding on Thunderbird l10n tinderboxes.
  • Fixed: 445891 - Remove remnants of 2 obsolete |mail.collect_email_address_| preferences
  • Fixed: 446129 - Contact sidebar blanks if email only
  • Fixed: 446266 - Missing accesskey for Print Preview in Message Pane context-menu
  • Fixed: 446367 - User-agent for messages doesn’t follow branding type (Official/Unofficial)
  • Fixed: 448218 - "Linux comm-central build %" is RED after "dbus" checkin(s).
  • Fixed: 448326 - Paste/Copy/Cut not working from menus when composing message
  • Fixed: 448339 - Thunderbird 3 builds still using version 1 url for application update checks
  • Fixed: 448479 - No Proxy For: port Bug 311779 (save IE’s ";" as "," so it works automatically)
  • Fixed: 448694 - Remove UI for "Remember the last selected message" (mailnews.remember_selected_message)
  • Fixed: 448702 - Remove "For messages that contain 8-bit…"
  • Fixed: 449202 - Get Thunderbird L10N builds working on comm-central
  • Fixed: 449231 - Add "si" to the mozilla/mail/all-locales files
  • Fixed: 449500 - Use new unified toolbar styling with -moz-appearance in Thunderbird
  • Fixed: 449649 - Cursor markers in the "About box" consumes full cpu load
  • Fixed: 449691 - improved message (view) reader pane
  • Fixed: 449738 - Fix splash.rc for comm-central
  • Fixed: 449934 - mail/locales/l10n.ini comm-central fixes
  • Fixed: 449949 - Changing sort of Subject or From to Descending breaks sorting
  • Fixed: 450044 - Remove obsoleted <mail-folder-bindings.xml>
  • Fixed: 450151 - Thunderbird does not form ligatures in fonts under 20 pixels
  • Fixed: 450456 - Consider turning on disk cache for TB
  • Fixed: 450519 - No breakpad reports since comm-central move
  • Fixed: 450649 - The link "click’here’ to get the rest of truncated mail" is not working. (when truncated POP3 mail is moved/copied to other account’s folder, including "Global Inbox" case)
  • Fixed: 450712 - "INBOX" is always displayed as selected folder name of "When I delete a message/Move it to this folder"
  • Fixed: 450724 - Implement New/Edit Card inline features for message header display
  • Fixed: 450803 - When right click on email address, add option to open existing contact in address book
  • Fixed: 450897 - "Delete Mail marked as Junk in Folder" doesn’t work with views / quicksearch
  • Fixed: 451002 - Use the new search textbox binding in the subscribe dialog
  • Fixed: 451008 - Failed to build Thunderbird trunk (comm-central) on OpenSolaris
  • Fixed: 451381 - Re-use the new address book popup widget on Thunderbird’s preference pane
  • Fixed: 451438 - Filters: Option NOT to warn on delete
  • Fixed: 451599 - Add preferences UI for disk cache size and clearing the cache
  • Fixed: 451620 - remove the Advanced Preference for Connection timeout
  • Fixed: 451862 - Ask me before downloading more than __ messages option (in the nntp server settings) should use textbox type="number"
  • Fixed: 451891 - js error: missing) after argument list
  • Fixed: 451981 - add a build target to compare bin/ and the package list
  • Fixed: 451987 - make about:cache work in thunderbird
  • Fixed: 452014 - cleanup of nsMailboxProtocol::LoadUrl
  • Fixed: 452162 - Lessen the number of cases where a restart is required on application update (mozMapi32.dll and MapiProxy.dll)
  • Fixed: 452347 - Keyboard accelerator does not work in account wizard
  • Fixed: 452419 - Message Header display shouldn’t get the show references pref for each item of the header displayed
  • Fixed: 452615 - mail.server.default.offline_download when set, it doesn’t make discovered imap folders offline by default
  • Fixed: 452661 - the scam detector doesn’t work anymore
  • Fixed: 452832 - drag and drop multiple messages between folders fails (moves only one)
  • Fixed: 453706 - Lingering nsISupportsArray in ProfileMigrator.cpp
  • Fixed: 453820 - Audit front-end code for unnecessary rdf QIs
  • Fixed: 454025 - Extension functions fail because libgkplugin.so does not get installed
  • Fixed: 454032 - Unable to use keyboard to continue uninstall from the summary page
  • Fixed: 454061 - Crash [@ nsImapService::MessageURIToMsgHdr(char const*, nsIMsgDBHdr**) ][@ nsImapService::CreateStartOfImapUrl]
  • Fixed: 454101 - "Not enough arguments [nsIMsgFolder.createSubfolder]" selecting search folder of rss feeds
  • Fixed: 454125 - Use .trim() in Thunderbird
  • Fixed: 454133 - The ini creation macros from common.nsh are being deprecated
  • Fixed: 454549 - Unable to change SSL state, or server settings in new profiles
  • Fixed: 454622 - mail won’t download if "Allow anti-virus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages" is checked
  • Fixed: 454808 - Not having quicksearch on the toolbar breaks things
  • Fixed: 454848 - Forwarding e-mail no longer works in nightlies if set to forward "inline"
  • Fixed: 455104 - UI for setting delete model is gone
  • Fixed: 455502 - Standalone message window, various "WhichPaneHasFocus is not defined" errors.
  • Fixed: 455801 - Polish changes to message reader for b1
  • Fixed: 455802 - [Filters] RunNow becomes broken as number of filters increases.
  • Fixed: 455847 - memory leak in nsDirPrefs.cpp
  • Fixed: 455915 - can’t edit/add identities anymore (createDirectoriesList and onSaveCompositionAndAddressing not defined)
  • Fixed: 456096 - drag and drop folder fails - error nsITransferable.getAnyTransferData, messengerdnd.js :: DropOnFolderTree
  • Fixed: 456563 - Add en-GB to Thunderbird all-locales list
  • Fixed: 456725 - Add fy-NL to thunderbird all-locales list
  • Fixed: 456863 - New/Edit Card tooltip not resetting in Header bar display
  • Fixed: 456869 - port the firefox add-ons preference to thunderbird preferences
  • Fixed: 457151 - Add [id] to the Thunderbird build
  • Fixed: 457556 - Ukrainian Thunderbird3
  • Fixed: 457975 - Composition Mode Over-ride (shift+reply) does not work for new reply button
  • Fixed: 458002 - Update shipped-locales for Thunderbird alpha 3
  • Fixed: 458425 - Remove TB specific disable of test_punycodeURI.js

IMAP, News, POP and SMTP-related: (5)

  • Fixed: 147789 - remove obsolte pref network.hosts.nntp_server
  • Fixed: 213729 - should look in mem cache for messages when offline
  • Fixed: 436151 - support IMAP RFC 4551 - CondStore extension
  • Fixed: 437192 - Implement a POP fake server testing scheme for /mailnews
  • Fixed: 450740 - Mark as read still can’t be disabled when "immediately on display" is chosen

MailNews Core: (142)

  • Fixed: 13595 - Add birthday fields to address book
  • Fixed: 16913 - Filter news based on any headers
  • Fixed: 65794 - Some attachments (like text/plain, text/html) get Content-Disposition: inline (incorrect)
  • Fixed: 87867 - address book autocomplete should use separate sessions
  • Fixed: 128340 - when I add an LDAP directory from the addressbook and preferences window is open make sure it shows up in the pref | addressing list
  • Fixed: 128342 - When I delete a directory from addressbook and the preferences window is open it should be removed from the preferences window.
  • Fixed: 135231 - LDAP Quick search results keep duplicating with searches in Address Book, Select Addresses dialog and Sidebar
  • Fixed: 135243 - Deleted LDAP Directory server remains in dropdown box in Advanced AddressBook and Select Addresses dlg
  • Fixed: 138366 - [Offline] override global LDAP settings not working
  • Fixed: 141606 - tags applied (IMAP) when offline not available after going online
  • Fixed: 166164 - default for MDN confirmation dialog should be No (i.e. Do Not Send)
  • Fixed: 179891 - Empty trash should have confirmation dialog
  • Fixed: 182274 - [IMAP] Need UI for server trash folder name
  • Fixed: 195559 - Comments in default mailnews prefs is wrong.
  • Fixed: 198137 - Rename an address book and other areas of the product are not updated
  • Fixed: 200138 - Delete Mail Marked as Junk changes/forces selection
  • Fixed: 213827 - IMAP offline stores are deleted when connecting to server fails
  • Fixed: 216075 - Remove unused uuencode code from mailnews compose
  • Fixed: 227649 - Remove obsolete <mailnews/mapi/old/*>
  • Fixed: 234867 - Rationalize nsIMsgHeaderParser.idl
  • Fixed: 262319 - sort by thread fails to resort on new message
  • Fixed: 262641 - Import of account settings from Outlook Express misses SSL/port number/root folder
  • Fixed: 271988 - compacting folder other than selected one clears message and thread panes
  • Fixed: 287939 - Mail tries to save deleted attachment
  • Fixed: 294824 - Don’t hardcode appname in the cancel message for News
  • Fixed: 305434 - LDAP Prefs Service needs revising.
  • Fixed: 327510 - XML Parsing Error: no element found/netError.xhtml on newsgroup msg download timout
  • Fixed: 338323 - Mozilla/SeaMonkey Mail and Thunderbird ignore tag attributes in html messages
  • Fixed: 343059 - In <phishingDetector.js>, "Warning: assignment to undeclared variable linkTextURL"
  • Fixed: 355194 - Local/POP3 ‘Rebuild Summary File’ generates "error, exception, …" in <widgetglue.js>
  • Fixed: 359226 - Need Redirect option that allows editing before sending
  • Fixed: 359716 - Upgrade LDAP C-SDK to 6.0.x on trunk for Address Book.
  • Fixed: 366482 - "Edit as new" for opened eml files results in a broken compose window
  • Fixed: 369918 - Crash Loading a Saved Search Folder [ nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::OnSearchDone]
  • Fixed: 373967 - Custom column added by extension is not displayed properly while in "grouped by sort"
  • Fixed: 376235 - Filters won’t move mail after copying it
  • Fixed: 377084 - empty message window when opening search results (when the message isn’t present in the folder view)
  • Fixed: 392015 - Crash of Tb 2.0.0.6, if "Rebuild Index" is executed during compacting folder is inprogess, and loosing mails [@ morkRowObject::SetRow]
  • Fixed: 398498 - Message filter of "copy and move" generates phantom mail in copy target folder(when copy&move to different mail folders), or causes "move failure"(when copy&move to same mail folder)
  • Fixed: 403256 - Make nsIAddressBook a service and keep the root rdf address book alive.
  • Fixed: 404489 - filters using as custom mail header "Sender" do not work (matches From instead)
  • Fixed: 408613 - Migrate SeaMonkey addressing preferences pane to new style and rewrite how the AB prefs UI works.
  • Fixed: 410333 - get rid of the send in utf-8 question-dialog, just silently switch to utf-8 if necessary
  • Fixed: 416284 - Detached attachments should not be able to be re-detached
  • Fixed: 420830 - Expose mime_create() to content type handler plugins
  • Fixed: 421428 - nsIFolderListener should admit that it’s passing nsIMsgFolders
  • Fixed: 428427 - Unread count in virtual folders not updated for changed headers
  • Fixed: 429891 - Extra CR LF inserted every 10 KB in message in POP3 Sent folder
  • Fixed: 436615 - Better Faster IMAP: Preemptive/Automatic message download feature
  • Fixed: 436880 - IMAP itemDeleted and itemMoveCopyCompleted notifications quite broken
  • Fixed: 437903 - Can’t send emails to OS X mailing lists.
  • Fixed: 437908 - Search/Filters don’t check correctly for address in Mac OS X Address Book
  • Fixed: 438414 - crash when saved search is open after deleting a searched subfolder
  • Fixed: 439225 - Revamp nsIMsgFolderNotificationService
  • Fixed: 439470 - Mailing List Dialog for OS X address books doesn’t list addresses and isn’t read-only
  • Fixed: 439471 - "Allow remote images in HTML mail" is selectable on OS X cards
  • Fixed: 439819 - LDIF import does not include mozillahomestreet
  • Fixed: 440635 - Need a separate manual filter context
  • Fixed: 441191 - POP/RSS automatic filtering: delete message action is marking read, not deleting
  • Fixed: 443993 - Moved IMAP junk message does not preserve junkstatusorigin and junkpercent
  • Fixed: 444209 - Filter only selected messages in a folder
  • Fixed: 444211 - OS X mailing list name not visible within the contacts sidebar
  • Fixed: 444417 - IMAP undo of delete appears to work, but doesn’t
  • Fixed: 444686 - create/adapt build system for comm-central
  • Fixed: 444815 - View unexpectedly removes message after changing tag
  • Fixed: 445146 - Move editor/ui from mozilla-central to comm-central
  • Fixed: 445167 - Remove "comments only" <msgHdrViewAddresses.js>
  • Fixed: 445199 - GetMsgTextFromStream should return an AUTF8String
  • Fixed: 445343 - adding imap saved search creates unneeded .sbd
  • Fixed: 445403 - imap saved searches with spaces in the name display escaped name
  • Fixed: 445554 - MsgMailboxGetURI doesn’t escape the relative path as should be done for a URL
  • Fixed: 446047 - IMAP Empty Folder action does not result in nsIMsgFolderListener notification
  • Fixed: 447590 - Display both comm-central and mozilla-central changeset IDs on tinderbox pages
  • Fixed: 447619 - comm_central: add configure option to l10n repositories (port of bug 445328)
  • Fixed: 447636 - build editor/ui with Mozilla build system as long as it lives in mozilla/
  • Fixed: 447664 - make top level Makefile targets to run test suites work on comm-central
  • Fixed: 447860 - GetMsgTextFromStream should use more libmime
  • Fixed: 448003 - Z/mZ values are off by 100 on OS X
  • Fixed: 448165 - Mailnews crashes in [@ nsAbMDBDirectory::DeleteCards] if aCards is null
  • Fixed: 448185 - Fix linking with tracemalloc in comm-central
  • Fixed: 448558 - Deleting multiple mails from Junk ends in "The current command did not succeed" (IMAP)
  • Fixed: 449260 - Replace rdf-driven addressbook popup menus with xbl based one
  • Fixed: 449367 - comm-central doesn’t allow full-configures for l10n purposes
  • Fixed: 449618 - Move cardForEmail to nsIAbDirectory
  • Fixed: 449735 - Fix splashos2.rc for comm-central static builds
  • Fixed: 449747 - Running Junk Mail Controls manually on Folder or message fails if multiple address books selected for whitelist
  • Fixed: 449753 - Remove redundant export of header files from mailnews/addrbook/src/Makefile.in
  • Fixed: 449941 - comm-central build system shouldn’t set webdav as a default extension
  • Fixed: 450149 - Implement cardForProperty on nsIAbDirectory (or nsIAbCollection if it exists)
  • Fixed: 450248 - Outlook address books don’t have a dirType
  • Fixed: 450332 - problems with images in imap messages
  • Fixed: 450550 - Needless a PRBool value in nsParseNewMailState::DoneParsingFolder.
  • Fixed: 450581 - Address Book lists in dialogs may become unsorted
  • Fixed: 450698 - The second argument of nsParseNewMailState::AppendMsgFromFile should be PRUint32.
  • Fixed: 450899 - Port bug 450196 and bug 447853 to comm-central
  • Fixed: 450917 - Create and populate nsIAbCollection
  • Fixed: 450957 - Make Qt port compile with comm-central
  • Fixed: 450964 - Get rid of remaining SVG build options in comm-central
  • Fixed: 450967 - Check for alternate autoconf-2.13 names in comm-central build system
  • Fixed: 451021 - Mac OS X Address Book has erroneous spaces in display name when either (or) both of first and last name are blank
  • Fixed: 451143 - Print Preview Card and Abook both unuseable
  • Fixed: 451257 - Composing a message after the contacts sidebar was closed sometimes crashes Thunderbird
  • Fixed: 451361 - Junk settings should allow using read only address books but not remote ones for white lists
  • Fixed: 451601 - kill MOZILLA_LOCALE_VERSION
  • Fixed: 451756 - port bug 434192 (make clean fixes) to comm-central
  • Fixed: 451823 - allHeadersPopup is not used anywhere in mail/mailnews
  • Fixed: 451903 - Build error in mailnews/mime with –enable-debug
  • Fixed: 451988 - Move MailNewsTypes* from mailnews to msgbase
  • Fixed: 452143 - Phone Number being displayed wrongly in integrated Apple Addressbook
  • Fixed: 452206 - Remove OS X bundle-check hack from attachment code
  • Fixed: 452446 - Remove mailnews/movemail/ (obsolete files)
  • Fixed: 452504 - port bug 97954, bug 394901, bug 451466, and bug 450194 changes to comm-central
  • Fixed: 452521 - crash getting pop3 mail on startup
  • Fixed: 452579 - Start dropping some direct RDF usages in address book.
  • Fixed: 452614 - nsIAbCard needs a method of searching all email addresses (well both of them)
  • Fixed: 452760 - relative l10n-base problems with comm-central
  • Fixed: 452962 - make install no longer works on comm-central
  • Fixed: 453301 - Provide a function to collect only a single address.
  • Fixed: 453698 - nsAbLDAPCard::SetMetaProperties assumes an entry has at least one objectClass
  • Fixed: 454103 - Make nsIMsgCompFields’s attachments an nsISimpleEnumerator
  • Fixed: 454182 - Forward as attachment from open eml file broken after fix to bug 366482
  • Fixed: 454298 - infinite recursion in GetIsKilled
  • Fixed: 454344 - nsIMimeEmitter addAllHeaders method not js-safe as is
  • Fixed: 454399 - IMAP open folder command sends empty arrays to nsIMsgFolderListener::msgsDeleted observers
  • Fixed: 455069 - "Search Messages…", compact folders grayed out when IMAP folder is selected
  • Fixed: 455240 - Address book card preview pane doesn’t update for card changes via external interfaces (where notifications exist, e.g. OS X)
  • Fixed: 455610 - Birthday fields for OS X address book incorrectly translated
  • Fixed: 455727 - import calendar/ into comm-central
  • Fixed: 455797 - birthday picker doesn’t let me enter certain dates, resets day and year
  • Fixed: 455812 - nsAutoSyncManager should expose a scriptable XPCOM interface to allow monitor background download operations
  • Fixed: 455932 - Add nsIMsgFolderListener notifications for news messages
  • Fixed: 455942 - Port to comm-central: bug 440714, bug 447642, bug 454391, bug 454786, bug 454192
  • Fixed: 456233 - nsMsgHdr needs to ensure various ‘in string’ parameters to avoid crashes
  • Fixed: 456250 - Properly detect application/pkcs7-mime subtypes in libmime
  • Fixed: 456326 - "ASSERTION: Some other operation is in progress" when synchronizing mails
  • Fixed: 456327 - Enable showing "*** Initiating Auto-Sync on folder imap://………." messages by turning them into NSPR logging
  • Fixed: 456415 - Setting up a vcard for an account doesn’t work.
  • Fixed: 456440 - IMAP folder paths not initialized correctly if done for the first time inside nsImapMailFolder::GetFilePath
  • Fixed: 456548 - IMAP subfolders not initialized beyond one level in GetSubFolders
  • Fixed: 457052 - try to repair cause of assertion - Borked message header
  • Fixed: 457168 - These emails repeatedly match the wrong filter
  • Fixed: 457545 - nsParseMailbox.cpp:1813: warning: unused variable ‘numFolders’

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 Released

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Released on 25 Sep 08, and this changelog was last updated on 26 Sep 08.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the improvements in Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 over 2.0.0.16. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release. Do check out the known issues as well.

The Gecko 1.8.1.x branch (Thunderbird 2.0.0.x series) will not include any groundbreaking features that Gecko 1.9.x will bring, since it is based on Gecko 1.8.

Impact key for security issues listed on the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories webpage:

  • Critical: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
  • High: Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.
  • Moderate: Vulnerabilities that would otherwise be High or Critical except they only work in uncommon non-default configurations or require the user to perform complicated and/or unlikely steps.
  • Low: Minor security vulnerabilities such as Denial of Service attacks, minor data leaks, or spoofs. (Undetectable spoofs of SSL indicia would have "High" impact because those are generally used to steal sensitive data intended for other sites.)

Changes in 2.0.0.17: (12)

Security issues: (7)

  • Fixed: MFSA 2008-46 - Heap overflow when canceling newsgroup message (Critical)
  • Fixed: MFSA 2008-37 - UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow (Critical)
  • Fixed: MFSA 2008-44 - resource: traversal vulnerabilities (Moderate)
  • Fixed: MFSA 2008-43 - BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution (Moderate)
  • Fixed: MFSA 2008-42 - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17) (Moderate)
  • Fixed: MFSA 2008-41 - Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution (Moderate)
  • Fixed: MFSA 2008-38 - nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation (Moderate)

Other fixes: (5)

  • Fixed: 369918 - Crash Loading a Saved Search Folder [ nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::OnSearchDone]
  • Fixed: 392015 - Crash of Tb 2.0.0.6, if "Rebuild Index" is executed during compacting folder is inprogess, and loosing mails [@ morkRowObject::SetRow]
  • Fixed: 442549 - Add ids to accountCentral
  • Fixed: 443344 - attachment filename corruption imported from Eudora (Japanese version).
  • Fixed: 450698 - The second argument of nsParseNewMailState::AppendMsgFromFile should be PRUint32.

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Shredder Alpha 2 Released

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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 t