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nickhere
 
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Post Posted October 30th, 2017, 2:19 pm

MY sister has over 50,000 msg in her inbox.
What I want the add on to do is read all the mail address and names in her inbox
Sort it by name then by email address
create the directory by name then by adddress on the local folder
then make and run the filters

I know how to make and load a temporary add on
manifest and javascript.
but how do i access and loop the proper section
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Post Posted October 30th, 2017, 3:30 pm

Moving to Extension Development.
morat
 
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Post Posted October 31st, 2017, 9:33 am

What did you come up with?

Original thread: viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3032139

Here is how to get the "Local Folders" folder.

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var accountManager = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger/account-manager;1"].
  getService(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgAccountManager);
var localFoldersFolder = accountManager.localFoldersServer.rootFolder;

Do you want to create subfolders based on the header address names? Some of these may be illegal folder names.

nsIMsgFolder.createSubfolder
http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-release/source/mailnews/base/public/nsIMsgFolder.idl

Here is how to show a list of unique header address names with count in a new tab. (sorted alphabetically)

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function openTab(aString) {
  var converter = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/scriptableunicodeconverter"].
    createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter);
  converter.charset = "UTF-8";
  aString = converter.ConvertFromUnicode(aString);
  aString = aString.replace(/&/g, "&");
  aString = aString.replace(/>/g, ">");
  aString = aString.replace(/</g, "&lt;");
  aString = aString.replace(/"/g, "&quot;");
  aString = aString.replace(/'/g, "&apos;");
  var data = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">';
  data += "<html><head><title>Authors</title>";
  data += '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">';
  data += "</head><body><pre>" + aString + "</pre></body></html>";
  var wm = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"].
    getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator);
  var win = wm.getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane");
  win.document.getElementById("tabmail").openTab("contentTab", {
    contentPage: "data:text/html;charset=utf-8;base64," + btoa(data),
    background: true});
}
var headerParser = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger/headerparser;1"].
  getService(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgHeaderParser);
var folder = GetFirstSelectedMsgFolder();
var enumerator = folder.messages;
var fromNameArray = [];
var fromNameCounter = {};
while (enumerator.hasMoreElements()) {
  var msgHdr = enumerator.getNext().QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgDBHdr);
  var subject = msgHdr.mime2DecodedSubject;
  var from = msgHdr.mime2DecodedAuthor;
  var to = msgHdr.mime2DecodedRecipients;
  var date = new Date(msgHdr.dateInSeconds * 1000).toLocaleString();
  var fromName = headerParser.extractHeaderAddressName(from);
  var fromMailboxes = headerParser.extractHeaderAddressMailboxes(from);
  if (fromNameArray.indexOf(fromName) === -1) {
    fromNameArray.push(fromName); // unique
  }
  fromNameCounter[fromName] = fromNameCounter[fromName] ? fromNameCounter[fromName] + 1 : 1;
}
fromNameArray = fromNameArray.sort();
for (var i = 0; i < fromNameArray.length; i++) {
  fromNameArray[i] = (i + 1) + ". " + fromNameArray[i] + " - " + fromNameCounter[fromNameArray[i]];
}
openTab(fromNameArray.join("\n"));

Why do you want to create filters to copy messages? Why not just copy messages?

nsIMsgCopyService.CopyMessages
http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-release/source/mailnews/base/public/nsIMsgCopyService.idl
http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-release/source/mailnews/base/public/nsIMsgCopyServiceListener.idl
Last edited by morat on October 31st, 2017, 11:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
nickhere
 
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Post Posted October 31st, 2017, 11:49 am

her filter is empty i want it to move on new msg
thank for getting me started
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Post Posted October 31st, 2017, 5:20 pm

Here is how to show a list with the FiltaQuilla extension.

http://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/a ... ltaquilla/
http://mesquilla.com/extensions/filtaquilla/

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/*Javascript Action*/
function openTab(aString) {
  var converter = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/scriptableunicodeconverter"].
    createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter);
  converter.charset = "UTF-8";
  aString = converter.ConvertFromUnicode(aString);
  aString = aString.replace(/&/g, "&amp;");
  aString = aString.replace(/>/g, "&gt;");
  aString = aString.replace(/</g, "&lt;");
  aString = aString.replace(/"/g, "&quot;");
  aString = aString.replace(/'/g, "&apos;");
  var data = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">';
  data += "<html><head><title>Authors</title>";
  data += '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">';
  data += "</head><body><pre>" + aString + "</pre></body></html>";
  var wm = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"].
    getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator);
  var win = wm.getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane");
  win.document.getElementById("tabmail").openTab("contentTab", {
    contentPage: "data:text/html;charset=utf-8;base64," + btoa(data),
    background: true});
}
var headerParser = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger/headerparser;1"].
  getService(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgHeaderParser);
var fromNameArray = [];
var fromNameCounter = {};
for (var i = 0; i < msgHdrs.length; i++) {
  var msgHdr = msgHdrs.queryElementAt(i, Components.interfaces.nsIMsgDBHdr);
  var subject = msgHdr.mime2DecodedSubject;
  var from = msgHdr.mime2DecodedAuthor;
  var to = msgHdr.mime2DecodedRecipients;
  var date = new Date(msgHdr.dateInSeconds * 1000).toLocaleString();
  var fromName = headerParser.extractHeaderAddressName(from);
  var fromMailboxes = headerParser.extractHeaderAddressMailboxes(from);
  if (fromNameArray.indexOf(fromName) === -1) {
    fromNameArray.push(fromName); // unique
  }
  fromNameCounter[fromName] = fromNameCounter[fromName] ? fromNameCounter[fromName] + 1 : 1;
}
fromNameArray = fromNameArray.sort();
for (var i = 0; i < fromNameArray.length; i++) {
  fromNameArray[i] = (i + 1) + ". " + fromNameArray[i] + " - " + fromNameCounter[fromNameArray[i]];
}
openTab(fromNameArray.join("\n"));

I'm not familiar with filter creation, so I'm not much help to you.

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