MailNews Core

Mail and news components common to Thunderbird and SeaMonkey

Select a component to see open bugs in that component:

Account Manager

Problems with setting up accounts within MailNews.

Address Book

Problems with the address book backend and shared frontend bits

Attachments

For problems with mail or news message attachments.

Backend

Problems with RDF data sources and application logic. Most likely, your problem can fit in one of the other components so this component should be rarely used.

Build Config

Bugs concerning the comm-central build system and build problems with that repository that are not specific to one of the applications. For example, bugs in mailnews/ Makefiles.

Composition

Problems with the writing a new email or replying to one including using the autocomplete feature. Generally, problems found are within the compose window before sending a message. A few examples: 1. User interface and functionality problems with the html compose window and the plain text compose window. 2. Problems with addressing a mail message or adding an attachment.

Database

Problems with underlying code in storage of address book content and mail/news summary files. If the problem you are encountering is with the user interface of the address book or of accessing mail, then this component should not be chosen.

Feed Reader

For bugs in MailNews Feed Reader featureset

Filters

Problems with using filters to filter your mail. A few examples: 1. User interface and functionality problems with creating, editing, deleting, using filters. 2. Incoming mail is not filtered properly.

General

Bugs that cannot be categorized into other components in Mailnew Core

Import

Import Mail, Import Mail Settings from third party applications. Also, Import Address Book entries and preferences.

Internationalization

Internationalization is the process of designing and developing a software product to function in multiple locales. This process involves identifying the locales that must be supported, designing features which support those locales, and writing code needed.

LDAP Integration

Problems with LDAP functionality that relate to mail/news components. For example, performing LDAP queries in the addressbook, LDAP typedown addressing/autocompletion, and LDAP preferences.

Localization

Localization is the process of adapting software for a specific international market; this process includes translating the user interface, resizing dialog boxes, replacing icons and other culturally sensitive graphics (if necessary) and customizing features.

MIME

Problems with parsing the MIME structure and displaying messages. When this problem happens, it's often useful to attach a copy of the mail message generating the problem. If you have Communicator 4.x, you can select the message and save it as an .eml file (just save with the .eml extension). A few examples: 1. The contents of a message do not display properly. Certain items do not show up.

Movemail

Problems with getting mail from the user's spool file. (/var/spool/mail/*). This is UNIX only.

Networking

Problems with general networking issues integrating with libnet. For specific protocol problems, please choose: IMAP, News, POP, or SMTP from the list.

Networking: IMAP

Problems with receiving mail when your mail account is set up for IMAP. This component should be chosen if you've verified that the receiving problem is specific to IMAP protocol. A few examples: 1. Interoperability problems with IMAP servers (i.e. folders, naming conventions) would fall into this component. 2. Using the IMAP delete model

Networking: NNTP

Problems with reading, posting, or subscribing to newsgroups (also sometimes referred to as USENET)

Networking: POP

Problems with receiving mail when your mail account is set up for POP. This component should be chosen if you've verified that the receiving problem is specific to POP protocol. Deleting messages to the trash folder would also fall into this component.

Networking: SMTP

Problems with sending mail. If you have specific problems with the compose window, you should choose the "Composition" component from the list.

Printing

Problems with printing mail messages and address book cards.

Profile Migration

Problems with migrating your profile from Communicator 4.x to the current Mozilla mail. Choose this component if you've verified that the problem you are seeing does not occur when you create a new profile and add the mail or news account you were using with migration.

Security

This component covers all bugs that relate to use of cryptography, S/MIME, and SSL issues for MailNews. Or, use this component if you have a MailNews security bug.

Security: OpenPGP

OpenPGP is about all aspects related to encrypted or signed email messages using the OpenPGP protocol.

Security: S/MIME

S/MIME is the sending of signed and/or encrypted email.

Simple MAPI

File a bug against this component for problems when using the simple MAPI feature. This feature allows a non-messaging application to perform messaging operations, such as send, address, and receive messages.

Testing Infrastructure

Bugs relating to the testing infrastructure that is specific to the mailnews code, e.g. xpcshell-tests, fake servers.

XUL Replacements

For bugs affecting XUL bindings removed from Firefox which still need to be supported in Mailnews Core