User:Clarkbw/STEEL Examples

Here are your instructions

1. Grab the STEEL extension for thunderbird from bug 408370
2. Install the STEEL Extension
3. Write Extensions that use the STEEL API

Here are some working examples of code using the STEEL API.

Watching for New Mail

Here's a snippet that listens for new mail arriving

var steelyournewmail = {
  onLoad: function() {
    // initialization code
    this.initialized = true;
    this.strings = document.getElementById("steelyournewmail-strings");

    // FIXME: currently we have to add our listener for new mail arriving in all folders
    for (var i = 0; i < Application.accounts.all.length; i++) {
      Application.console.log("looking in account: " + Application.accounts.all[i].displayName);
      for (var j = 0; j < Application.accounts.all[i].folders.length; j++) {
        Application.console.log("looking in folder: " + Application.accounts.all[i].folders[j].name);
        Application.accounts.all[i].folders[j].events.addListener("newMail", steelyournewmailListener);
      }
    }
  },
};

var steelyournewmailListener = {
  handleEvent : function (event) {
    var msg = event.data;
    Application.console.log("handleEvent: " + event.type); // newMail
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.id): " + msg.id);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.from): " + msg.from);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.to): " + msg.to);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.cc): " + msg._xpcomMsg.ccList);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.date): " + msg.date);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.subject): " + msg.subject);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.unread): " + msg.unread);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.flagged): " + msg.flagged);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.priority): " + msg.priority);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg.attachments): " + msg.attachments);
    Application.console.log("handleEvent (msg._xpcomMsg): " + msg._xpcomMsg);
  },
};

window.addEventListener("load", function(e) { steelyournewmail.onLoad(e); }, false);

The old version of watching for new mail still works