Thunderbird Tweaks…

I’ve recently been forced to move my mail to a virtual hosting environment. Doing this has been a bit of a pain because of a lot of historical use and abuse of user-extension@domain type email addresses. While migrating away from them and realizing that my hosting provider didn’t provide me with a great strategy for manipulation of procmailrc files, I’ve been forced to look into IMAP client based filtering.

The first thing I noticed is that Thunderbird doesn’t by default allow you to filter on List ID headers. You can add this in through the gui, but it effectively amounts to this tweak in your prefs.js file:

user_pref("mailnews.customHeaders", "List-Id");

I also use the following tweak which attributes quotes in email replies:

user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2);

What I’m currently hunting for is a Reply-to-list tweak or extension. This is the only piece I’m missing from a fully functional MUA setup. It’s a pretty big problem for me at the moment. If anyone has any suggestions, I’m all ears.

As far as XPI extensions go, I’m currently using Enigmail for PGP signing my email and World Weather to virtually experience the outdoors without breaking a sweat…

Upgraded to new WordPress

I updated to the latest and greatest {WordPress}. Unfortunately it seems like as a side effect of this upgrade my entire blog ended up getting posted to {Planet Debian}. Sorry about that. I blame {WordPress}. I do really like the pages feature of the new {WordPress}. I’m in the process of converting my silly little website over to it.

On the employment front, I’m still busy working on {SourceForge} Explorer. We’re gearing up for release. I’ll be heading down to Fremont for two weeks at the end of the month to make sure we don’t run into last minute problems and plan for the post release refactor / redesign.

I finally got approved as a {Debian} developer. As a result I gave my packages some much needed love without forcing other DDs to spend their time reviewing my trivial changes or upstream updates.

Life rolls on…

All work, and some play

No news on the {Debian} developer front. I’ve been spending a bunch of time on the SourceForge Explorer application at work. It’s pretty awesome now. I’m currently implementing Trace support so we can debug any issues discovered in the field. Note to self, implementing field debug capabilities as an afterthought… not so fun. Office and Project plugins got a refresh last week and now work with Office XP and 2003 and pull in some new connection functionality from the library.

I picked up a copy of {World of Warcraft} last week. That game is amazing. It’s been a long time since I’ve been hooked on a game. I think the last one I played that I liked was Asherons Call.

Mail::Audit Longstanding Bug Smackdown

So I’ve been doing some work on {Debian} {Perl} packages. One such beast is Mail::Audit. It’s got some ancient bugs with regards to mail delivery. Two of them are relatively straightforward. Access to the spool should be via /var/mail not /var/spool/mail. Mail::Audit::List doesn’t handle maildir delivery. The remaining bug is more painful. {Perl} flock uses either flock, fcntl or lockf for low level locking. What this means is that mail spool access may or may not be NFS safe. I haven’t found a great way to deal with this yet from {Perl}. I’ve consider just hacking it to exec “lockfile -ml” but that’s just too nasty for me .

If anyone has a better idea for doing this properly in {Perl}, I’d love to hear it.

I Am a Wild Party

I got a new SiteBar package uploaded. Only minor updates in this one: French translation improvements. Dependency changed from apache | http to apache2 | http.

I also contacted the owner of the following ITPs to ask if packaging was proceeding:
libemail-localdelivery-perl, libemail-filter-perl, libemail-mime-encodings-perl