809356 - Missing: Message filter Import/Export Feature

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[eSoftware2021]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.2
Build ID: 20121026204328

Steps to reproduce:

I´m searching for Import/Export-feature for message filter


Actual results:

found only an add-on for Thunderbird


Expected results:

Either usable add-on or similar feature as in Address Book!

Comment 1

[Jess H. Brewer]

Confirmed: there is a Message Filter Import/Export extension for Thunderbird but it will not load into Seamonkey 2.14.1 on a Mac running Mountain Lion ("incompatible" error message).  I gather this has been the case for some time.  Is support for Seamonkey being gradually withdrawn?

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Jess H. Brewer from comment #1)
> [...]  Is support for Seamonkey being gradually withdrawn?

Yes and no. The SeaMonkey (voluntary) developers do all they can to keep the Suite up-to-date, supported, etc.; there is certainly no intention of withdrawing SeaMonkey. What happens is that many extension developers use Thunderbird and/or Firefox but not SeaMonkey, and that they "forget" to support the Suite even when it is as simple as adding a <targetApplication> section for it in the extension's install.rdf

Comment 3

[Jess H. Brewer]

Thanks for the clarification, Tony!  Sad to see yet another uniquely useful utility marginalized by herd behavior.  <sigh>  We should all try to proselytize about the integrated mail/browser advantages of Seamonkey a bit more aggressively... then maybe developers wouldn't forget to keep us in the loop.

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

In reply to comment #1 and #3 (cont.)
See also:
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Extensions_support_in_SeaMonkey_2
* http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2481107 "Modded extensions for SeaMonkey" (and its predecessor, 119 pages now locked, http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=500361 "Post the extensions you want compatible with SeaMonkey")

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

@Reporter?
a) So the request is to make whatever add-on for TB running with SeaMonkey?
b) What is the name / dolwnload location for the TB add-on?
   Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export 1.3.7.6 
   <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/thunderbird-message-filter-imp/>?
    Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export Enhanced 1.0.3 ?
    Something else?

Comment 6

[Jess H. Brewer]

Rainer: that's the add-on under discussion, all right; but now it seems not even to work in the latest Thunderbird, so any hope of getting it available for Seamonkey seems remote.  Perhaps I have too long a Message filter list, but it sure is a PITA to transcribe it by hand every time I set up Seamonkey on a new host!  Things seem to be slowly falling apart....

Comment 7

[eSoftware2021]

Version 2.35 nothing works!

Comment 8

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Jess H. Brewer from comment #6)
the most promising approach seems to be to rework the add-on, for SeaMonkey this one actually is WONTFIX.
There might be some chance for a Thunderbird enhancement request with a new bug report.

Also see 
* "Bug 1222768 - remove all "teesoft.info" contact info at add-ons of author 
  "Wind Li"".
* <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.addons.user-experience/SM$202.39$20add-on-compat|sort:relevance/mozilla.addons.user-experience/nw8jj-eKIyM/cEh0EnCyAgAJ>

Comment 9

[Rainer Bielefeld]

WONTFIX for now because of limited resources, no votes and good workaround with an Add-On, see "User Story" above!