Request for help: Thunderbird script
Posted on:: November 22nd, 2004
To help me fight comment spam, I really need to be able to programmatically open all selected messages in Thunderbird and process the contents. I had a script in Outlook that did this, but I can’t find or figure out how to do it in Thunderbird. The hard part is opening the selected messages. Anyone have a code fragment or two that they can post or point me to?
Thanks!
Categories: Uncategorized dw
Do you have the outlook script? That might help figure out exactly what you are looking for.
I’d blogged it lo these many years ago:
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002669.html
This is probably what you meant, but you are most likely going to need an extension here. Don’t know if there is any kind of scripting like this within thunderbird since there is the whole extension system.
So you would have to change from VBA to Javascript, and of course the thunderbird API
Which I am not familiar enough with to help out
I’m not worried about the VBA > JS transition since the string handling is minor. I need help figuring out how to get the script to read the selected msgs in the first place.
You could directly submit a feature request here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=30&sid=e4a379b71565ae750bdea432f4b3f90b
hm can’t you just send enter as key with sendkey or so?