I want to add a new drop down field as gender and want to show in address book in thuderbird. Can you please guide me

Hey there, not sure if this is the correct place but is there something like the big graphic on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/theme that explains which part is called what in the theming manifest for Thunderbird?

Name Thunderbird
Version 91.7.0
Build ID 20220305171341
Distribution ID ubuntu-snap-build

So I've gone through pretty much every extension, and tried. I'm not able to load any temporary addon - files are not found leading to errors about encoding...

e.g. Just testing the layout example

First tried as a temp addon -

"The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the page must be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol. layout.html"

So naturally thinking that I had to check the UTF-8 in the HTML as meta tag. No - seems fine. Locales are not found when loading the temp add on. Tried as XPI / ZIP - same again, and seems that TB isnt loading the file at all.

Not sure if its a breaking change, or unique to this build...

the instruction tells to zip and temporarily install.

If temporarily installed, it is sufficient to 'load' an addonfile in the dialog, e.g. point to the manifest file.
zipping before is not needed (75b)

Hi!
I saw the example of "Compose Body" that adds a button to the top menu. However, is there an example showing how to add a sidebar (or bottom bar) to the text area (like in Word, Outlook or Google Docs)?
I am talking about a sidebar that one can build using html+js that can use the thunderbird api to manipulate the text area (email body) content.

I have found these examples and I want to modify the parameters of a thunderbird sending email window. I want to add cc, bcc and so forth.

I have tried the composeBody example for my extension but it keeps telling me that:

"browser.compose.setComposeDetails is not a function"

What is the problem?

Dear community,

In the messageDisplayScriptPdfPreview example, we provide PDF.js library. Could we now rely on the thunderbird ones?

Regards,

Hello and thank you for this repo, it really helps to understand the things better. I have a question here related to how new contacts are created. I am in the middle of creating an address book synchronization add-on for TB and thus the question.

The TB WebExtensions API states that the complete list of properties that TB uses should be taken from the nsIAbCard.idl i.e.

https://thunderbird-webextensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contacts.html#contactproperties

the nsIAbCard.idl interface provided the opportunity to create a custom property using the methods

void setProperty(in AUTF8String name, in nsIVariant value);
nsIVariant getProperty(in AUTF8String name, in nsIVariant defaultValue);

Is it possible to create those properties using the new address book API for the AddressBook node?

The reason i am asking this question is because i found myself in the need to tag each Node (Address Book, Contact, MailingList) with at least the first two of the 3 properties mentioned below:

1. Integer Counter - which increases every time the contact is changed.
2. Epoch time stamp integer - that is set to the current time stamp every time the contact has been changed.
3. UUID - that will be set from external source in order to identify this contact . Here i do not mean the ID that is created by the

contact WebExtensions API i.e. i mean UUID string that is received from another program.

I could create a contact like that :

function createContact() {
  	let randomId = Math.random(); 
	let currentTimeStamp = new Date().getTime().toString(); 
	let counter = Math.random().toString();
	let uuid = "b0fe4bd6-eb2b-41a7-b49e-4fe37fd22813";
	
	let properties = { PreferMailFormat: "0", DisplayName: "TestContact33" + randomId , MyCustomerCounteProperty:counter, LastModifiedDate:currentTimeStamp, MyCustomeUUIDProperty:uuid  };
	let addressBookId="9c0e538f-a29f-4060-b5d8-21a3e788e5c6";
	let promise = browser.contacts.create(parentId = addressBookId, properties).then(() => {  });
}

Here i am adding the custome properties "MyCustomerCounteProperty", and "MyCustomeUUIDProperty"
I am searching for more clean approach to do the same for the AddressBook Node type and Mailing List.

The documentation mentioned that for Contacts
"It is also possible to store custom properties. The custom property name however may only use a to z, A to Z, 1 to 9 and underscores."

however i am not able to execute some customer property for the AddressBook node, i can execute that for Contacts only! Can customer property be executed on AddressBook nodes and Mailing lists?

E.g. when SEND is pressed and a particular contact e.g. where they have a value "NO-EMAIL" in a custom contact field - the extension should not proceed sending, but pop up with an alert.

There's also a case where certain contacts should only be sent email using a particular "FROM" email address (i.e. corporate vs. personal)... similarly the extension should not proceed sending, but pop up with an alert.

I sent myself an email with an attachment, but I don't see any way to read the file attachment within the "message" and, for example, process it further

i use messenger.messages.onNewMailReceived.addListener(mail_checker); for calling and IMAPS Server, there is no "Attachments" or something else.

i can't see attachments if i use this to load the message object content while opening the email in thunderbird.

background.js

browser.messageDisplay.onMessageDisplayed.addListener((tab, message) => {
  console.log(`Message displayed in tab ${tab.id}: ${message.subject}`);
  console.log(message);
});

Thank you for helping me :-)

OS: KDE Neon 22.04 Guest running under KVM/QEMU on Ubuntu 22.04
Thunderbird: 102.10.1 (64-bit) Flatpak
hello-world commit used: b8855e6

hello-world button appears on main toolbar without icon:

Hovering over hello-world button causes title to display:

Clicking on the button causes a vertical line to be displayed briefly, and a small oblong "bubble" to appear:

Loading mainPopup/popup.html in Firefox seems to work fine:

I've checked file permissions of the files and directory to make sure they are accessible, have loaded the icons in a viewer to confirm that they are okay. I loaded the extension with Load Temporary Add-on...

Here's what the inspector shows (which makes no sense to me):

@darktrojan An add-on which will add an option to send unsent messages without attachments .
While travelling on a plane, I check my downloaded emails and may reply /send many emails . Some are brief , others have large attachments.
When I connect to a mobile network with low data range. Thunderbird tries to deliver the emails in Outbox in chronological order. If the first on happens to be a low-priority
email with large attachment,it may take a very long time or even timeout. Short high-priority emails later in the Outbox are blocked.

Thunderbird version: 102.6.0 (64-bit)
OS: Linux

Hello :)

I encountered a strange behavior when working with .eml attachments. If I run the sample extension https://github.com/thundernest/sample-extensions/tree/master/messageDisplay on a "normal" mail it works just fine. But, if I have an .eml attachment, open it and click the extension's button, it gives me the following error (console output):

msgHdr.getProperty is not a function ext-mail.js:1753
    convertMessage chrome://messenger/content/parent/ext-mail.js:1753
    getDisplayedMessage chrome://messenger/content/parent/ext-messageDisplay.js:142
    getDisplayedMessage self-hosted:1121
    result resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:1035
    withCallContextData resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:524
    result resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:1034
    withPendingBrowser resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:534
    result resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:1033
    callAndLog resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:986
    recvAPICall resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:1032
    InterpretGeneratorResume self-hosted:1429
    AsyncFunctionNext self-hosted:632
Error: An unexpected error occurred undefined
Message displayed in tab 2: eml attachment test background.js:2:11
This page is in Quirks Mode. Page layout may be impacted. For Standards Mode use “<!DOCTYPE html>”. fetch>UID>.INBOX>14690

The problem seems to start here:

https://github.com/thundernest/sample-extensions/blob/master/messageDisplay/popup.js#L6

I work on an extension myself where the same error occurs and I don't know how to fix this problem...

Any help would be very appreciated :)

Best
Martin

I have no idea why.

This makes it easier to browse

Tested on TB 91.9.0 and 101.0, while trying to migrate my extension.
I zipped the entire content of the experiment sample to test.xpi and loaded the file in the debug menu.
I got the following error:

[Exception... "File error: Not found"  nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame :: jar:file:///home/leon/Downloads/test.xpi!/api/ExampleAPI/implementation.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 9"  data: no] 2 implementation.js:9:34
    <anonymous> jar:file:///home/leon/Downloads/test.xpi!/api/ExampleAPI/implementation.js:9
    <anonymous> jar:file:///home/leon/Downloads/test.xpi!/api/ExampleAPI/implementation.js:161
    asyncLoaded resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.jsm:1677
    (Async: promise callback)
    asyncLoadModule resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.jsm:1675
    asyncLoadModule resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.jsm:1892
    asyncGetAPI resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.jsm:1618
    asyncLoadAPI resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.jsm:1238
    asyncFindAPIPath resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.jsm:1319
    recvAddListener resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:1008
    recvAddListener self-hosted:1175
    _recv resource://gre/modules/ConduitsChild.jsm:78
    receiveMessage resource://gre/modules/ConduitsParent.jsm:385

When I load the exact same contents unzipped (via the manifest) this does work.

Hello, I'm curious how TB extensions are tested. I wasn't able to find any test cases in any of the example plugins provided in this repo; please direct me if I overlooked something!

In the newest beta release, loading the extension from the file renders the warning

"Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.0: Value "mailTabs" must either: must either [must either [be one of ["clipboardRead", "clipboardWrite", "geolocation", "idle", "notifications"], be one of..." etc etc.

Any idea why this is happening and what the fix is? I've seen this issue on a couple other extensions using the new API.

Hello,

I am trying to create an experiment API to execute a Gloda query and display the results. However I seem to already get an error "file not found" with:

var { Gloda }  = Components.utils.import("resource:///modules/gloda/public.js")

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Thunderbird version: 102.2.2 (64-bit), language: FI
Plugin: [email protected]

The plugin was loaded using the Load temporary plug-in functionality.

The button becomes visible, but when pressed, the popup window has no content.

I modified plugin.js a bit to get some debug information:

browser.tabs.query({
  active: true,
  currentWindow: true,
}).then(tabs => {
  let tabId = tabs[0].id;
  browser.messageDisplay.getDisplayedMessage(tabId).then((message) => {
    document.body.textContent = message.subject;
    console.log(document.body)
  });
});

Here's what I can see on console: