quickfilters

Important news about the coming Thunderbird update (115):

The latest version of quickFilters supports Thunderbird 102; we had some problems Last year when we tried to switch the Add-on from using "monkey patched" functions (these are internal functions that quickFilters wraps within it's own versions in order to start the assistant before an email is moved / deleted / archived) to a folder-listener based model. Unfortunately these changes lead to performance issues and had to be rolled back.

quickFilters now communicates with the different parts and windows via a so called "background page", which is an invisible container necessary for mail extensions that don't just manipulate a content tab (a web page in a tab). This makes updates of different parts in the UI a lot cleaner and is able to better deal with multiple Thunderbird windows.

For Thunderbird 115, quickFilters needs to be adapted to a completely rewritten mail 3 pane frontpage. Important elements like the toolbar and the folder tree have been completely replaced. This requires considerable work of rewriting all elements interacting with the main page (3pane) of Thunderbird (toolbar buttons, menus, folder tree, drag and drop handlers).

As regards converting into a "native mail extension", there is still a lot of work to be done. There is no API method for things like toolbar / special commands in the filter list, so these have to still be covered in "experimental" APIs provided by the Add-on.

This also necessitates the Add-on asking for full permissions on install. We will try to find a permanent solution for this problem, but it may require a complete reimplementation of a lot of the code. Currently there is no support for user-defined toolbars by a natvie "mail extension", so this will also be subject to negotiating with the Thunderbird Core development team.

If you would like to discuss the changes or find specific problems in Thunderbird beta versions 112 and later, please report it here.

In order to support quickFilters transition into a full "mail extension" many methods of accessing the Thunderbird programming interface have to be recreated. Therefore please support the future of quickFilters by buying a license at the FastSpring Web Shop

quickFilters is fully compatible with Thunderbird 102.10 - which is the latest version of the current ESR period (starting August 2022 - Summer 2023).