On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 11:01 +0100, Michal Pryc wrote:
> Hello Tracker community,
> 
> I am sending few patches to add support for Thunderbird Emails through 
> extension, which was originally written by Pierre Östlund[0].
> 
> I have made each patch for each file, because it is easier for me to 
> describe what actually the patches are doing.
> 
> After applying those patches, you can see README, which describes 
> process of building and installing Tracker with Thunderbird support.
> 
> I have tried this on my e-mail account which contains *lots* of e-mails, 
> and it worked fine :-)
> 
> Comments welcome :-)

a very quick review:

> 
> So, a little explanation of each patch:
> 1. tracker-email-evolution.diff
>     There was a little bug, which basically make iteration, but the 
> values were not taken from the interation itself. Also I have changed 
> the function a little bit, and now if the name from the e-mail is not 
> found it is e-mail itself (which caused seg fault on Solaris).

fine


> 
> 2. thunderbird-extension.diff
>     Patch that need to be applied for the thunderbird-extension taken 
> from beagle svn. This patch should be placed in the tracker source code 
> as described in the patched README file. The extension in the 
> Thunderbird will tell that it is Beagle one. In the future it will 
> change, I need to discuss this.
> 

yeah beagle refs need to be removed - they can stay for testing but must
change when we release with it enabled by default


> 3. tracker-01-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds to trackerd.c routines for ThunderbirdEmails service, enables 
> index_thunderbird_emails.


fine

> 
> 4. tracker-02-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds description to docs/tracker.cfg.5 for the IndexEvolutionEmails
> 
> 5. tracker-03-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds to data/services/default.service [ThunderbirdEmails] servuce 
> description
> 

fine although we need to refresh this file in trackerd for existing
users so it picks up changes

> 6. tracker-04-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Changes the glade file to allow "Enable Thunderbird email indexing" 
> in tracker-preferences. The glade file was generated using glade-3.
> 
> 7. tracker-05-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds keys for configuration to tracker-preferences.c for Thunderbird 
> (/Emails/IndexThunderbirdEmails)

will have to delay changes to TP until TB backend is stable and fully
operational (deletes/junk). 

As with Kmail support, support can be added manually to cfg file but
should be off by default until its stable


> 
> 8. tracker-06-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds the "IndexThunderbirdEmails=true\n" to the configuration file.
> 
> 9. tracker-07-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Changes the function thunderbird_watch_emails to have argument 
> "(DBConnection *db_con)". I made this change, since all other e-mail 
> headers have this argument, so why to have different one?
> 
> 10. tracker-08-thunderbird-support.diff
>     * Adds the "IndexThunderbirdEmails=true\n" to the configuration file.
>     * Adds the tracker_parse_log_message_and_add_missing_formatting 
> function. This function replaces "%" with the "%%". This was written, 
> because some of the log messages contained characters with the "%" for 
> example "mail-message://[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in that case printf and 
> other functions that used formatting on Solaris caused seg fault, 
> because of wrong string. The correct string should look like 
> "mail-message://[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> 
> 11. tracker-09-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Changes argument passed to the thunderbird_watch_emails function 
> (change followed by patch: tracker-07-thunderbird-support.diff).
> 
> 12. tracker-10-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds tracker_parse_log_message_and_add_missing_formatting to the 
> header file (change followed by patch: tracker-08-thunderbird-support.diff).
> 
> 13. tracker-11-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Parses output of the log message (change followed by patch: 
> tracker-08-thunderbird-support.diff).
> 
> 14. tracker-12-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds MAIL_APP_THUNDERBIRD_FEED as an application to the 
> MailApplication enumeration. This might be in other place, but since 
> feeds and mails generated by extension doesn't differ almost at all, 
> this was the simplest way to go.

ok not sure about it but its harmless atm


> 
> 15. tracker-13-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Change followed by previous patch. This will add 
> MAIL_APP_THUNDERBIRD_FEED to the tracker-db-email.c and simple return 
> correct mime. Also fixes the email subject, when the subject is null.
> 
> 16. tracker-14-thunderbird-support.diff
>     In the tracker-search-tool-callbacks.c adds opening e-mail by 
> Thunderbird functionality.
> 
> 17. tracker-15-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Lot's of changes in tracker-email-thunderbird.c to support generated 
> messages. The old functions were not deleted, just new ones added above 
> those.

perhaps not needed stuff can be deleted? will make maintenance easier

> 
> 18. tracker-16-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Adds my name to the AUTHORS file ;-) :-)
> 
> 19. tracker-17-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Changes Makefile.am to build thunderbird-extension if this extension 
> was found and the configure was run --with-thunderbird-extension option
> 
> 20. tracker-18-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Changes configure.ac to get --with-thunderbird-extension as an 
> argument. Also checks if the thunderbird-extension was patched with the 
> thunderbird-extension.diff
> 
> 21. tracker-19-thunderbird-support.diff
>     Changes in the README.


I will do a full review over weekend - thx


> 
> 
> TODO;
> - Dealing with deletion of folders and messages
> - Feeds. To enable feeds, only few lines of code needs to be 
> uncommented, but I need to discuss this, since the feed is going to be 
> another service, so I don't want to index them as an Email service, that 
> is why I have commented this out.
> 
> 
> [0] http://postlund.org/
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