Mail Console Extension

A very simple Extension for Thunderbird (tested against Thunderbird 1.5) that provides a Console window to Thunderbird.
The console has some commands that helps to manipulate the emails.

Release 0.9.5

Download		Here
Install		Here

Thanks to the Tipbar extension because it has provided the base code for this one.

This is a snapshot of the extension:

Features

Command history with autocompletion
Basic manipulation commands (see the Commands section for a reference)

Usage

Type the command in the text box and press Return or click the Do command. To activate the console without the mouse use the "d" key.

Commands

The commands supported by this extension are based on the OpenVMS mail commands.

When it is necessary to specify a folder name just use the name, but if there are multiple folders in different accounts use a prefix of the account before the name with ":".

For example if the folder is Sent and there are multiple account (e.g. x@xyz and pit@gmail) use "pit:Sent" or "x:Sent"

Reference

Command: dir
Syntax: dir FOLDERNAME
Description: it shows the specific folder

Command: move
Syntax: move FOLDERNAME
Description: moves the selected emails to the destination folder

Command: del
Syntax: del 
Syntax: del /ALL 
Description: deletes the selected emails, moving them to the Trash. With the del /ALL deletes all in the
current folder

Command: mark
Syntax: mark [read|unread|flag|unflag]
Description: marks the selected emails with one of the options

Command: select
Syntax: select /all		all emails in folder
Syntax: select /none	clear selection
Syntax: select /invert	reverses the selection
Syntax: select [/in] [selectioncommand] [text]
Description: selects a range of mail by contained text. If the /in option is provided the
search is performed inside the current selection. 

The selection commands are:
	/new				only new emails
	/since /before DATE	search by date before or after a selected date
	/size SIZE			search the email bigger than the specified size in KB. If negative looks for the smaller
	/subject TEXT		search by subject (it is the default)
	/marked /nomarked	only flagged or not flagged
	/attachment			with attachment
	/from /to TEXT		author in the from or to

DONE

No selection after move or copy
Support for " and case insensitive

TODO

Extensive testing
Autocompletion
Improve date parsing (now using JavaScript)
Multiple criteria for select

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By Emanuele Ruffaldi
PERCRO Lab
Email: pit@sssup.it