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Bug 225158
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Thunderbird should act as an RSS/Atom newsreader, too
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)
MailNews Core
Feed Reader
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(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
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(Reporter: mozilla, Assigned: Bienvenu)
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(Keywords: fixed-aviary1.0)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+ I'm no expert (and I'm probably missing something vital :), but it seems that Thunderbird could be fairly simply extended to read RSS newsfeeds too. The "Add account" dialogue could have a third option, "Newsfeed account (RSS)" perhaps. All RSS feeds could be automatically placed into a folder, "RSS feeds"; the user could, of course, make their own subfolders in order to categorise feeds. The main display could work a lot like the current handling of newsgroups; except Subject would be named Title; Sender, Author; and so on. It'd be a hell of a nice new feature; possibly even unique? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Comment 1•21 years ago
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Yes, I've been thinking about an RSS extension to thunderbird and what such an extension should do recently as well.
Dupe of bug 171453?
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Comment 3•20 years ago
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Bug 171354 is for the browser; related, though.
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Comment 5•20 years ago
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re: comment 4: that's bug 214124
Comment 6•20 years ago
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The way Scott MacGregor describes how RSS feeds could be integrated into thunderbird works already with Opera's mailclient M2 (the beta Opera 7.5 at least has it...) It's completely integrated, and works just the way e-mail works... it can also be filtered; copied to mail folders, very interesting. I've added an screenshot of M2 displaying an rss feed for better illustration.
Comment 7•20 years ago
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verycool. thanks for the screen shot.
Comment 8•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #5) > re: comment 4: that's bug 214124 The funny thing is that You can't even vote for bug 214124 ;-(
Comment 9•20 years ago
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+1 vote :p
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Updated•20 years ago
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Assignee: mscott → bienvenu
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Comment 10•20 years ago
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initial backend work, starting from Seth's patch, and some stuff added...
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Comment 11•20 years ago
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I've also checked in some initial code for a thunderbird extension to work with this backend code, in mail/extensions/newsblog - it's basically myk's forumzilla extension code with a few changes to use the new backend rss server, and I've added a js component that the rss server code can use to update/download a feed. There's a lot of duplicate code between the js component and the extension. I think the duplication will be removed by moving more code into the js component, and calling the js component from the extension js, but I need to get a much better idea of what the interface(s) will look like. I've added the destination folder for the feed to the subscription ds - currently, it will always be the folder with the feed name under the news & blogs server, but in the future, that will allow us to be flexible about where the feed gets downloaded. The next thing I'm going to do is write some code to make unsubscribe work - if the folder is under the news and blog server, and there are no other feeds feeding into that folder, then the folder should be removed.
Comment 12•20 years ago
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This checkin broke my SeaMonkey build since I don't have the xmlextras extension enabled. Can we disable this feature if xmlextras isn't being built?
Comment 13•20 years ago
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Do you thought about the feature to write comments to a newsfeed?
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Comment 14•20 years ago
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Comment 15•20 years ago
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Comment 16•20 years ago
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Perhaps we could repurpose the notification code used by mail into something more generic. That way, a user can ask to be notified if a feed is updated. Perhaps use a different sound, and color/icon for the popup notification.
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Comment 17•20 years ago
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Comment 18•20 years ago
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need to make set flags set flags_inited flags so we won't crunch the result of an initial setFlags.
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Updated•20 years ago
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Comment 19•20 years ago
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this change also removes the onload timer stuff, which I'm not sure of the need for (perhaps because the folder pane in tbird does a delayed load - perhaps we need to make sure the accounts get loaded in our onload.
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Comment 20•20 years ago
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Adding Atom to summary - if we can do RSS, we can do Atom
Summary: Thunderbird should act as an RSS newsreader, too → Thunderbird should act as an RSS/Atom newsreader, too
Comment 21•20 years ago
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Even *Ximian Evolution* has had integrated RSS feeds for months!!! Its kind of buried, though. You might never find it if you didn't know it was there (. Now you know - go check it out ('Tools | Settings | Summary Preferences'. 'News Feeds' tab). Article titles appear in the 'Summary'. In Mozilla/Thunderbird, I'd suggest adding a 'News Feed' folder, in addition to 'Junk', 'Sent', 'Drafts', etc. I see no need to make a user add an account, as has been previously suggested here. Possibly allow the user to drag-and-drop URLs to the folder to add new feeds. Provide a selection of useful feeds. Since a screenshot of Opera has been posted, I'll try to post one of Evolution, but since I'm in Windows now, I'll have to do it from another computer.
Comment 22•20 years ago
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Shows feed/article titles in summary and setup dialog.
Comment 23•20 years ago
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Note that a new version (0.5.1) of Forumzilla, the extension upon which this code is based, has been released at: http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/ Highlights since 0.5.0 include: * a new subscriptions manager for maintaining your feed subscriptions; * the option to download stories into any local/POP folder; * no need for a separate "News & Blogs" account; * a link for opening stories in your web browser; * a fix for the bug that caused Forumzilla to redownload stories after you deleted them; * some performance improvements; * a bunch of other bug fixes. Note that the patches in this bug are forked from an early version of 0.5.1 and thus may have a version of some of these enhancements.
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Comment 24•20 years ago
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this patch adds a new interface to nsIMsgLocalMailFolder to add a message, and switches the newsblog extension to use the interface. This makes it so mail filters will now work on newsblog messages. I'm seeing an anomaly with "Fr" displayed before the message, that might be related to this change, though everything looks OK in the mailbox, and in the message source.
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Updated•20 years ago
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Comment 25•20 years ago
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Comment on attachment 152456 [details] [diff] [review] make filters work on rss messages I'll speak up if I start seeing your FR issue after I update with this change :)
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Comment 26•20 years ago
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the message size is off by 2, I'm pretty sure - 2 bytes too big. I'll try to figure out why. I'm just throwing the data at the parser - not sure it's getting the message size wrong.
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Comment 27•20 years ago
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this fixes the problem I mentioned before...
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Updated•20 years ago
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Component: Mail Window Front End → RSS
Comment 28•20 years ago
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When will this be included with the nightly aviary branch builds?
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Comment 29•20 years ago
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it will be when mscott turns it on, which should be any day now, if it hasn't already happened.
Comment 30•20 years ago
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As with Forumzilla, the integrated RSS reader doesn't handle special characters (like ä, ö, ü) correctly, instead it only displays a question mark. Two feeds where you can see this behaviour: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf http://photodb.kicker.de/library/rss091/kicker.xml Will this issue be "tackled" in the near future? :)
Comment 31•20 years ago
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this has been adressed as a problem in the seperate bug 253807
Comment 32•20 years ago
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What is the trick to have Thunderbird display the <description/>? Works here: http://www.internet-nexus.com/rss.xml Doesn't work here (shows webpage directly): http://photodb.kicker.de/library/rss091/kicker.xml
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Comment 33•20 years ago
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marking fixed - please open new bugs for remaining issues. Scott and I (mostly Scott :-) )have got it basically working. Neither Scott or I are planning on porting this to Seamonkey, but that doesn't mean someone else can't or won't.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 34•20 years ago
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I filled bug 255834 for Seamonkey port.
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Updated•20 years ago
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Keywords: fixed-aviary1.0
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Comment 36•19 years ago
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Comment on attachment 151466 [details] [diff] [review] allow new flag to be set from js clearing old request
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