Zwei Monate nach der letzten Betaversion steht der erste Veröffentlichungskandidat der neuen Generation des E-Mail-Clients »Thunderbird« bereit.

Bei mir ist der Thunderbird leider zu langsam. Seit Ubuntu 9.10 reagiert er sehr träge.

Ich nutze daher Opera, mit eingebautem Mailclient.

The Thunderbird team had its weekly meeting today. Our meeting notes and status updates can be found here.

Recently, I had to use the PGP for the first time when one of my colleague wanted to send some documents securely. Over all, this is an easy process and works quite well. I use Windows XP, Thunderbird and gnupg for this to work. Following are some instruction to do this…

You download the software from http://www.gnupg.org if you’re using Windows. If you have Linux, you most likely already have GnuPG.

Enigmail is the plug-in for Thunderbird. You can get it from https://addons.mozilla.org. Alternately, on GNOME-based Linux, check out Seahorse. You can use GnuPG with Outlook, but it isn’t pretty. I would recommend Thunderbird any day.

The software will generate a key pair for you.

Unlike traditional S/MIME, where you use an X.509 certificate signed by a trusted CA, PGP / GnuPG is based on a more general model. You determine if a key is “valid” if it has been signed by someone you “trust”. So, let’s say, you trust that I will not sign any key without verifying that it actually belongs to who it says it belongs to. Then, you can be assured that any key you get that is signed by me is valid.

For distribution, you can upload your public key to a few key servers at PGP and MIT. Keep your private key, well, private.

Signing a message is easy. You just click a button in Thunderbird that says, “Sign message”.

Encryption requires that you have the public key of the person you’re sending the message to. Either he can give it to you, or you can download it from a key server that you trust and that he’s uploaded it to. Once the public key is downloaded, it is stored in your “keyring”. When you send a message to a person whose public key you have, you can click the “Encrypt” button, and it will work.

Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 1 er ute. Les utgjevingsmerknadene her.

Ein RC er ein såkalla utgjevingskandidat. Det tyder at produktet skal ha minimalt med feil og ein testar det ut for å korrigere evt. småfeil før ein gjev ut den endelege versjonen. Merk! Om ein ikkje er nøgd med denne versjonen kan det kome ein RC 2.

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Den första december börjar FRA officellt att avlyssna stora delar av svenska folkets internettrafik. Piratpartiet i Göteborg ordnar i samband med detta en workshop om hur man kan skydda sin internettrafik från att avlyssnas och kartläggas.

Plats och tid för detta är Gnutiken på Övre husargatan 27 i Göteborg, klockan 17:30 den 30:e november.

Workshopen kommer att ta upp krypterings- och anonymiseringstekniker och visa hur man kan använda sig av dessa med hjälp av fri mjukvara. Specifikt kommer vi att tala om GPG, TOR och I2P.

Jag kommer tillsammans med Jacob Hallén att berätta om GPG och hur man använder det för att kryptera sin epost,. Jacob kommer att inleda med att tala lite om teorin bakom gpg och kryptering med assymetriska nyckelpar. Jag kommer att visa praktiska tillämpningar på detta och demonstrera hur man installerar, skapar nycklar och skickar krypterad epost med hjälp av GPG. Jag kommer också att visa hur man med mjukvaran OTR kan kryptera så kallade snabbmeddelanden (msn, icq, xmpp/gtalk med flera.)

Eftersom både GPG och OTR är fri programvara finns källkoden tillgänglig för vem som helst att ladda ner från projektens respektive hemsidor. Ett faktum som är av största vikt då det gäller krypteringsmjukvara. Att vem som helst kan ladda ner och läsa källkoden gör att buggar och säkerhetshål rensas ut mycket snabbt eftersom användarna av programmet då själva kan hitta och rapportera dessa till utvecklarna. Framförallt säkerställer den öppna källkoden att det inte finns några så kallade bakdörrar, säkerhetshål som satts dit med vilje av utvecklarna av mjukvaran. Ett mycket känt exempel på bakdörrar är de som finns i IP-telefonimjukvaran Skype, där till exempel kinesiska staten har fått tillgång till en sådan bakdörr på begäran.

Jag kommer att inleda med att visa hur man, efter man installerat programmet GPG använder det medföljande kommandoradsverktyget för att skapa ett nyckelpar, laddar upp sin publika nyckel till en nyckelserver samt hur man laddar ner andras publika nycklar. Till GPG finns också ett antal grafiska gränssnitt och många epostklienter har också egna integrerade grafiska gränssnitt för att skapa, ladda upp och ner nycklar. Jag kommer också visa hur man sedan kan använda dessa nycklar i epostprogrammet Thunderbird och tillägget Enigmail.

När det gäller snabbmeddlanden kommer vi att använda programmet Pidgin med ett tillägg för OTR. Det finns en OSX-version av Pidgin som heter Adium och använder man denna behöver man inget tillägg för OTR då detta är inkluderat redan i programmet från början. Pidgin är mycket lätt att använda med OTR och programmet har stöd för en stor mängd snabbmeddelandeprotokoll så som msn, icq, gtalk, xmpp med flera, med hjälp av den stora mängd plugin som finns tillgängliga kan få stöd för ännu fler bland annat, twitter, facebook, identi.ca.

Observera att all programvara vi kommer att använda har öppen källkod och finns fritt tillgänglig att ladda ner via mjukvarans respektive hemsidor. Jag kommer också att sammanställa ett paket för nedladdning där jag samlat ihop de relevanta mjukvarorna för operativsystemen Windows och OSX då dessa annars måste hämtas hem från ett antal olika platser eftersom dessa operativsystem saknar ett rimligt system för att lätt och smidigt installera mjukvara via internet. CD-skivor med dessa paket kommer att finnas tillgängliga under workshopen och så snart jag är färdig med att samla ihop dem så kommer jag också att publicera paketen här på denna bloggen. Den som vill börja redan kan googla eller kika in här (OSX) eller här (windows).

Alla är välkommna, oavsett vilket politisk parti, kön, sexuell läggning, ras, intresseförening, folkgrupp , art eller vad nu man vill påstå sig tillhöra, även maskiner, så länge man inte skriker, slåss, luktar illa eller på annat sätt stör ordningen.

Väl mött!

PS.

Den som vill hjälpa till att sprida lite reklam på sin skola, arbetsplats, lokala bibliotek eller anslagstavla etc. hittar affischer här.

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)

• 3.6 compatibility up to 58%

  • Engaging with a number of high probability authors who will bump this number by ~10% or more when they flip to 3.6.

• Blog from Jenny Boriss on redesigning the Add-ons Manager

FIREFOX

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

  • QA is currently testing
  • should give a go to build in a week

• Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7
  • should have a schedule this week
  • likely targeting late January release

• Namoroka (Firefox 3.6) there are still over 80 blockers left to be fixed for Firefox 3.6
  • many are fixed on other branches and need to be moved over
  • some seem to be tracking bugs for stability issues, and may not block
  • there are still several code blockers awaiting patches or review which should be the highest priority for everyone in advance of the long weekend
• Firefox 3.7

  • No Report

GECKO

• Gecko 1.9.2
  • Wrapping up remaining 37 blockers for 1.9.2. Watching and fixing regressions & crashes based on beta feedback.
  • News from the CrashKill front:
    • In last week’s discussion we talked about how to compare releases. We’re still refining it, but it’s a good starting point.
    • Reminder: We now have the ability to block specific DLLs from loading. For the list of DLLs we intend to block, see bug 525103.
  • Blockers:
    • P1: 3
    • P2: 20
    • P3: 0
    • Other: 14
  • Team blocker numbers:
    • Layout: 3
    • Content: 6
    • GFX: 1
    • JS: 14

THUNDERBIRD

• TBird 3.0RC1 (Shredder)
  • 3.0RC1 build 3 available
    • please help us test and file bugs
    • autoconfiguration of new accounts at various providers needs special testing
    • we hope to label and announce as RC1 in the next small number of days

Complete Meeting Notes

Subscribers to the Cloud Testing service can take advantage of the new RSS feed of current status for a project, which has moved out of Beta into production.

The feed can be accessed via the home page for a Project:

You can then view updates in your RSS reader of choice – we use Mozilla Thunderbird:

The Mozilla Foundation, the makers of the famous (and free to download) browser Mozilla Firefox and the e-mail program Mozilla Thunderbird, earned about 79 million dollar in 2008. If you know that none of their programs need to purchase a license,  it’s a rather high amount of profit. The greatest part of the 79 million comes from another enterprise in the same market, Google Inc. Now, Google has his own Open source programs like Google Chrome etc. The profit of Mozilla has grown a lot in the years where Google didn’t have his own browser (in 2007 the earning of mozilla has grown about 12%, in 2008 just a little growth of 5.3%). Before google you just had Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox as the 2 great oligarchs. Now Google is penetrating the market.  The contract between Google and Mozilla is still going until 2011. We all hope Mozilla can stay in Business after 2011!

Read the Article on ZDnet

Wouter Snoeck

This is a really cool video from Golden Filter from the single, “Thunderbird”, a follow up to their debut single “Solid Gold”.

The Golden Filter are an electronic duo based in New York. Lead singer Penelope Trappes grew up in Lismore, near Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, while disco and analogue synth programmer Stephen Hindman is originally from Ohio, USA.

They produced their first single, Solid Gold, in July 2008, which was then this year on the 15th February 2009 and is also available as track 9 on the album Infinity +1 by A-Trak. Its video was filmed in Australia, near Melbourne. They have also released remixes of We Are the People (Empire of the Sun), New in Town (Little Boots), Lay It Down (Peter Bjorn and John) and Far Away (Cut Copy). Quite impression collection of accomplishments mates!

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Check it out world — an on time release (although this blog post isn’t)!

There isn’t much new, but I plan to make up for it with some pretty cool stuff for 0.3.
So after the first release, the feedback I got suggested less UI, so that was what I tried to work towards in terms of achievement.

This release seems very scrawny in comparison to the amazing progress being accomplished by other students of my class, mainly the Processing.js crew. But check it out–here are some of the goals I have set up for my 0.3 milestone:

1. Code a function to disable next/prev button if current message is last/first
2. Code a function to allow seeing a short
3. Code a function to allow skipping spam using navigation
4. Test extension’s display flow on a netbook
5. Navigation buttons that look nice
6. Consult other netbook users and seek review on basic UI left available

This release point is the result of one four-hour and one three-hour sessions in my office, where all I need to test front end code between edits is a lightning quick firing up of Thunderbird. These two days of work resulted in a total of +7 -2 lines of code, but I find victory in the fact that that is 7 hours of material I don’t have to learn again. I moved forward from understanding how to add elements to nodes (in layman’s terms: to insert a new control with its own attributes and programmability into item groups used in the base code of Thunderbird) and got comfortable with a new set of different controls and attributes.
My first aim was to get rid of the top toolbar to free up a good chunk of vertical space for the message content portion, so my plan of attack was to ask if element removal is possible in the #extdev channel. I was hooked up with two attributes to choose from, removeelement and hidden.
Removeelement sounded like a bucket of fun, so I gave that a try on the whole mail-toolbox toolbox. That actually ended up being kinda volatile, as the fs window would no longer recognize any selected message, and simply show a blank white inner space. So I dug one level deeper into the node and removed the two toolbar elements individually, one at a time, and found that it was the top [File, Edit, View, etc...] that shouldn’t be removed. Ever.
But even with one toolbar taken down, it still doesn’t look seamless. So the out-in-the-open answer became hidden. mail-toolbox hidden=”true”, that is. Great success!

Next thing to do was add a Prev & Next button for navigating through emails with the mouse. It took me about almost two hours and several different placements to get the feng shui just right and make sure that they wouldn’t warp or displace themselves like this:

but the two young buttons seem satisfied in their new home behind a spacer. Their auto-fitting with the vertical space was fixed by simply removing the align=”end” attribute I put in. Now they just need funky arrow icons to express their adolescent creativity, and stuff.

Oh yeah and I fixed the minimum version of Thunderbird problem. I set it to 2.9.*, since it seems the safest bet any 3.0pre build.

Also along this road I tried some other attributes that ended up not being necessary, but still cool tools to understand. The first is observes, which I noticed was on a most of the toolbox items, and insertbefore/insertafter. observes is like a radio to a broadcast tower, a broadcaster, sending the signal to adhere to any changed default attributes in the broadcaster. There’s a better explanation here. And have a XUL element reference also for good measure.

And along this road a few more cool feature ideas popped into my head;
People might like to be able to see or know if the next or previous message is junk and would prefer to skip it.
Perhaps add an easy way to zoom the size of text, both in and out to accommodate many different display settings.
A drop down list of message folders (inbox, sent, deleted, etc), with folder change going to the latest non-junk message, but I’m not dead set on keeping this idea if testers don’t feel it necessary.

Will keep you updated.

Well, it is not the easiest journey.  Especially if you, like me, no longer have access to your Outlook 2007 Media.  But here is a way to pull it off. No guarantees, but hope it saves you some time:

1.0 YOU NEED OUTLOOK
OK, you can try to do it without Outlook using a plug-in, but I couldn’t get that working.  Other than that Thunderbird can’t recognize PST files without Outlook installed.  If you don’t have access to your media you can download the Trial version from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/outlook

When you install Outlook, it will set up a mail account – be sure to set one up, even if it is bogus.  Because with no email profile, Outlook won’t create a PST file…and with no default PST file, you can’t open a DIFFERENT PST file.  Why? Oh, please don’t get me started…

2.0 OUTLOOK MUST BE ACTIVATED
For me, if Outlook wasn’t activated, I couldn’t point it to my PST file.  It would blubber about it being a “reduced functionality mode.” Activation, luckily, cures this.

3.0 OUTLOOK MUST BE YOUR DEFAULT MAIL PROVIDER
You can change it later, but if you already have Thunderbird as your default, then Thunderbird import will fail.  So, when you install Outlook, make sure it is set to be your default mail program (No, I don’t know how to set it after you install).

4.0 REMOVE PST PLUG-IN (IF YOU INSTALLED IT)
If you installed the PST plug-in from Softpedia, uninstall it and restart Thunderbird.  That thing will block Thunderbird’s default import process.

5.0 OK, YOU ARE READY!!
Once you have set the stage by completing the above steps, you can begin the process of importing your PST files to Thunderbird by doing the following:

• In Outlook, you should have a default PST.  To get to YOUR PST, you use the FILE -> DATA FILE MANAGEMENT menu option, click ADD and point it to the PST  you want to use.
• Then you will point to that file, click the SET AS DEFAULT and restart Outlook.
• If you are paranoid, like me, you will then go back into data file management, remove the default PST file and restart Outlook.  Because Thunderbird creates file-based email folders, I want to make sure it didn’t encounter 2 “Inbox” folders – I don’t know how it would handle that. 
• WARNING: If you have nested folders in your PST and any folders have the same name, I’ve read you can encounter problems with Thunderbird’s import. In Outlook, you will want to review your folder names and make sure there are no duplicates.
• Close Outlook, and start Thunderbird
• Use Thunderbird’s Tools -> Import and select “mail”, then select “Outlook” - it SHOULD, with all the above steps completed, begin the process of importing your data. Mine took about 10 minutes, and was about 480MB of data.
• Repeat the above only select “Address Books” and that should bring in your contacts.

I am far from an expert, here.  Just a computer geek that found the learning curve a bit obnoxious, and thought I would share what I found out.  If it didn’t work, you can try Aid4Mail (i didn’t). Good Luck!

UPDATED: With more fine wine toonage, thanks to our readers!

My very good friend Randy Fuller has a really cool blog that is not about rock and roll.  It’s about wine, but he wrote an excellent piece recently on rock and roll wines.  Actually, it’s about good wine in bottles with rock and roll labels – Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is there, so are the Rolling Stones, and even a Woodstock poster bottle.  As I said, very cool, and you can read it here.

I’ve known Randy for many years now, we went to college and high school together and even back then I knew him as a wine connoisseur. My tastes in wine ran mainly toward the red, namely Ripple Red and Thunderbird Red Label.  Randy had a more adventurous palate, seeking out the exotic and poetically named Annie Green Springs.

Any time you spent an evening with Annie Green Springs you always had to save the last dance for the porcelain maiden, hugging her inviting curves as you relived – and re-tasted – everything you had for dinner and lunch and possibly for breakfast about 18 hours earlier.  And I always found no matter how much you puke, the tender toes of Ripple still dance along your palate, even as you encounter the earthy nose of those Jack In The Box tacos you had for supper.

One very hot and humid Labor Day weekend, when I was still living at my parents’ house, Randy and I were assessing the merits of a few bottles of fine wine when suddenly I had to make room in my stomach for more wine.

Unfortunately, the door I thought was the bathroom was really the front door (now this is my own house) and my vomit settled warmly upon the front porch.  Many hours later, I was awakened by a crash and a torrent of violent cursing – from the unfortunate paper boy who slipped on the puke.  Somewhere an ex-paper boy is loading his deer rifle for a trip to the mall, and I’m very sorry about that.

Of course I have very fond memories of dear MD 20/20, the nectar of the ghetto.  Silky smooth on the tongue and available in a rainbow of colors, a typical “Mad Dog” experience was very much like drinking gasoline that somebody pissed in.  Although this fine wine had some very attractive flavors (“Electric Melon” comes to mind)  my favorite was always the down-home “Red Grape Wine,” which smelled a bit like merlot – that someone spilled in a dumpster.  Many a night I felt the warm embrace of dear 20/20, as it beckoned me to a ride on the Tilt-A-Whirl Bed Spin and finally punched my round-trip meal ticket before kissing me goodnight.

Well, enough of this bullshit – if you want to read about wine go see my friend Randy Fuller at his Now and Zin website and explore the pleasures within.  You will find this is a man who knows his wine, and I’ll drink to that.

Now and Zin – the website

And these are for the connoisseurs:

MP3: “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” by Richard Thompson

MP3: “Nightrain” by Guns n’ Roses

MP3: “Talkin’ Thunderbird Blues” by Townes Van Zandt

MP3: “Ripple” from “Sanford and Son”

MP3: “My Baby Got Drunk” by Paul “Wine” Jones

MP3: “Wine Do Yer Stuff” by Commander Cody

MP3: “Thunderbird” by Slim Gaillard

MP3: “Spill The Wine” by Eric Burdon and War

MP3: “Wine” by James Luther Dickinson

MP3: “Red, Red Wine” by Neil Diamond

MP3: “Backslider’s Wine” by Jerry Jeff Walker

MP3: “Wine” by the Electric Flag

MP3: “Wine With Dinner” by Loudon Wainwright III

MP3: “Cooking Wine” by Alkaline Trio

MP3: “Night Train” by the Viscounts

MP3: “Thunderbird” by the Nightcaps

MP3: “Kiss Me, I’m Shit Faced” by the Dropkick Murphys

MP3: “Lust For Vomit” by the Pogues

MP3: “Ripple” by the Grateful Dead

MP3: “California Wine” by Dale Watson

MP3: “Mad Dog 20/20″ by Teenage Fanclub

MP3: “Drinking Ink Splink” by Andrew Tibbs w/Dave Young’s Orch.

MP3: “Drunk” by Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy

MP3: “Wine With Dinner (Night Cap)” by Loudon Wainwright III

Ghetto Wine website

This Wikipedia entry is also pretty hilarious

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The Golden Filter é uma banda americana de Electropop formado em 2008, pela dupla Stephen e Penelope. Influenciados por The Human League, Saint Etienne, Donna Summer, Depeche Mode e The Cure, já são considerados pela crítica uma das “next big things” da música pop. Em fevereiro desse ano lançaram seu primeiro single, Solid Gold, aclamadíssimo pela crítica, além de participarem da coletânea Kitsuné Maison Vol. 7, famosa pela divulgação de artistas electro pop/indie, com a faixa Favourite Things. Além disso, também remixaram faixas de artistas como Little Boots, Cut Copy, Peter Bjorn and John e Empire of the Sun.

Solid Gold

Recentemente, The Golden Filter lançou seu segundo single, ainda melhor que Solid Gold, Thunderbird. Um electropop sensual, lembrando Goldfrapp em alguns momentos (quando essa ainda era legal), é possivelmente um dos melhores singles do ano, além de ter um vídeo bem interessante:

Thunderbird

Um álbum da dupla, ainda sem nome, está previsto para o início do ano que vem. Se seguir a qualidade de seus singles, 2010 começará com uma excelente novidade musical!

Tanto si tenemos Outlook como Thunderbird, u otro cliente y no nos gusta o no oímos el sonido que emite cuando nos llega un nuevo mensaje y lo queremos cambiar tenemos que:

Introdução

O Google Calendar é um serviço de agenda on-line lançado em 2006 oferecido pela Google .

Através do Google Calendar é possível controlar e compartilhar eventos e compromissos através de uma interface simples e bastante intuitiva construída usando Ajax.

O objetivo deste artigo é descrever e apresentar as ferramentas necessárias para integrar / sincronizar uma agenda do Google Calendar utilizando o cliente de e-mail  Thunderbird e conjunto com o complemento Lightning.

O complemento Lightning adiciona ao Thunderbird as funcionalidades básicas de uma agenda.

Tutorial

Obtendo o endereço privado do calendário

Abra o sítio do Google Calendar,

1. Selecione a opção Settings

2. Clique na aba Calendars

3. Selecione o Calendário que será utilizado com o Lightning

Na tela seguinte, copie o endereço do atalho presente em  Private Address > botão ICAL

Complementos – Thunderbird

Instale os seguintes complementos no Thunderbird

• Lightning

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/

• Provider for Google Calendar 0.5.5

https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/thunderbird/addon/4631

Instalação de complementos

1. Faça o download dos complementos
2. No Thunderbird, no menu Ferramentas, selecione a opção Complementos
3. Clique no botão instalar. Selecione o complemento (extensão .xpi) ou arraste a extensão até a janela Complementos (Aba- extensões)
4. Aguarde a contagem regressiva e pressione o botão instalar

Adição de Calendário no Thunderbird

Selecione a opção Arquivo > Novo > Calendário

Na tela que irá se abrir selecione a opção

• Na rede

Clique em avançar

Na tela seguinte selecione a opção Google Calendar, no campo Local insira o endereço privado do calendário

Clique em avançar

Na tela seguinte insira no campo Nome, insira o título que será utilizado no Thunderbird para o respectivo Calendário

Caso o acesso a HTTP seja feito através de proxy, configure o endereço/porta através de

Ferramentas > Opções > Aba – Avançado > Aba – Rede e espaço em disco > Conexão

Referências

Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird.

Med de senaste modellerna finns nu följande Thunderbird-modeller klara för brodyr på kudde, pläd, ryggbrodyr jacka mm.

- 1955 Convert
- 1956 Convert
- 1959 Convert
- 1960 HT
- 1966 HT

Jag kan lätt göra både HT och Convert av samtliga årsmodeller så det är bara att höra av sig.

http://www.jaims.org Considering study in Hawaii? JAIMS could be the perfect fit for you. The JAIMS East-West Knowledge Leaders Program can be attended as a primer before entering an MBA program, or more often as a stand alone intensive “crash course” that will help you transition to the next level in your international business career. This 3 month graduate diploma program is offered in addition to the AACSB – accredited Japan-focused MBA offered in conjunction with the University of Hawaii at Manoa Shidler College of Business.

I’ve found two themes for firefox and thunderbird that I’m so pleased with them I have to promote them a bit . They are Charamel and Silvermel created by Kurt Freudenthal. I discovered them thanks to Chewie. So, what I like about them is:

• Works with newer versions of Mozilla firefox and thunderbird (Including version 3 beta 4)
• It’s got really nice colours and  a nice layout.
• It works fine under linux and Mac OS X. In the latter it lets you have small icons in the bookmark bar, whereas the default theme does not allow you to do that. See image to see what I mean.
• You’ve got two different colours to choose from.

So go and buy the guy a beer so he can work more on them .