https://github.com/xi/xi-conversations

Minimal clone of thunderbird conversations
https://github.com/xi/xi-conversations

conversations email thunderbird

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Minimal clone of thunderbird conversations

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/xi/xi-conversations
• Owner: xi
• Created: 2017-04-09T18:56:37.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-15T09:00:08.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-15T11:31:55.598Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: conversations, email, thunderbird
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 170 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
This is a minimal clone of [thunderbird-conversations][1].  While contributing

to that project I found that I did not understand a lot of things. I used this

repo as a notepad whenever I found out how something works.

As a consequence, this project is **not meant to be used in production**. That

is not to say that it would not work. But I do not recommend it.

# Differences to thunderbird-conversations

-	I ignored most edge-cases to keep the code straight-forward.

-	No preview.

-	No quickreply.

-	The conversation view is not automatically updated when new messages come in.

-	The conversation view is only triggered when you open a message in a new tab.

# Things I learned while working on this

-	Many thunderbird APIs have next to no documentation. But reading the code is

	not that bad and it is easily searchable with [DXR][2]. Much of the

	thunderbird code itself is actually written in JavaScript.

-	The extensions relies heavily on [Gloda][5].

-	thunderbird-conversations was a [bootstrapped extension][3]. This has since

	been replaced by [web extensions][4]. Much of the functionality is not

	supported via the new APIs so thunderbird-conversations now makes extensive

	use of [WebExtension Experiments][6].

-	Plugging into enigmail is hard.

-	protz and Standard8 did an amazing job handling all those edge cases and

	making it work for humans.

# Install

If you feel adventurous and actually want to try this out, you will need to do

the following steps:

-	Install node with npm and browserify as well as sassc.

-	Run `make`.

-	Link the repository to `$PROFILE/extensions/conversations@xi`.

-	Restart thunderbird.

[1]: https://github.com/thunderbird-conversations/thunderbird-conversations

[2]: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source

[3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Bootstrapped_extensions

[4]: https://webextension-api.thunderbird.net/

[5]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210601133829/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Creating_a_Gloda_message_query

[6]: https://webextension-api.thunderbird.net/en/stable/how-to/experiments.html