A new Thunderbird is on the horizon (v 0.2b1) and some e-mails reminding me of updating the Virtual Identity extension (see [1] , [2] ) for usage with the new release. As usual, it's time to solve some problems and go trough the list of bugs, so I did. And I added some features too.

  • the smart-reply window was sometimes hidden by other windows. Changed the behaivior to wait for the MessageComposeWindow shown to up till a decision in the Smart Reply-dialogue which made.
  • smart-reply till now only Compared email adresses, not the full names beneath them. But sometimes the email address is always the same, but the full name changes for different recipients. Sun changed the behaivior.
  • In Thunderbird 2.0b I am able to retrieve at URI of the original email while editing a draft. So its possible to extract the former transmitter address. Which means: Now with e-mails on virtual identity can be saved and edited afterwards, without any problems.

For a testing phase I released a beta version of the upcoming extension, feel free to try it and please report any problems or suggestions. You can find this release under http://absorb.it/hacked/thunderbird/virtual_identity-0.3.5b-mz+tb.xpi

The "Paragraph Style drop-down menu inoperable if installed Virtual Identity"-bug is open still, see my entry into the XULPlanet forum . Any help appreciated!

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