Thunderbird/Mailing List Add-on

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Goal

The Thunderbird Mailing List add-on is designed to detect and help organize mailing list messages which are received by the user.

Prototype

The code has initially been developed as an add-on to Thunderbird. The mailing list add-on source is freely available on bitbucket.

Here are the visible pieces of the add-on.

Mailing List Detection

When a person views a mailing list message Thunderbird alerts them that it has detected the message is a mailing list and offers options to help organize it better.

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Other Actions

For every mailing list message there is a menu item in the other actions menu that lets the user get back to the mailing list options for the current mailing list shown.

Folder Pane

As each mailing list is detected it is placed under a "Mailing Lists" folder in the folder pane. Each mailing list folder is a virtual folder which collects the mailing list messages even if there isn't an active filter for the messages.

Mailing List Options

From the Mailing List Detection, Other Actions, or Folder Pane a user can open up the Mailing List Options dialog which helps them manage the shown mailing list.

The dialog is intended to display the following mailing list information:

• id
• help
• archives
• post
• unsubscribe

Along with options for how to filter incoming mailing list messages. It is still very much a work in progress.