[hashcash] Re: ways of integrating into Thunderbird
- From: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:32:17 -0400
On 6/30/2011 11:20 AM, John Honan wrote:
Would a hashcash plugin do the stamping as a background task, transparently? -
Or do we need to invoke a dialog and make it foreground? (imo hashcash
stamping should be as transparent as possible, in fact the only thing the user
should see is a checkbox on the thunderbird preferences screen to enable it,
and perhaps a 'number of bits' textbox value)
Anyway, here are a couple of links;
http://www.unsignedbyte.com/?page_id=4
Here's one called the 'send later' extension, it allows you to schedule
outgoing emails to be sent later. I think it's relevant as it uses a method of
moving the email to drafts, then monitors the drafts folder until a certain
time, and then moves it to outbox.
that looks interesting.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162057/how-do-you-insert-email-headers-with-a-thunderbird-extension
Uses js to intercept the outgoing email and insert headers.
Also looks interesting as does:
http://email.about.com/od/mozillathunderbirdtips/qt/Add_an_Arbitrary_Custom_Header_to_Mozilla_Thunderbird.htm
we also want to grab messages inbound to check for valid stamps and handle it in
some hand-waving appropriate method.
After I sent my message, it occurred to me that maybe we want to start stamp
generation when the user starts creating a message and if the person sends the
message before the stamp is done, then use the queuing and send later technique
suggested above. maybe I'll ask him about a mechanism for adding a plug-in that
does some filtering/competition a work and sends the message when it's done. We
would also need some sort of an alert indicator to say that the message hasn't
been set yet.
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