Mailnews Status 12/18
Mailnews Accomplishments:
- Resolved as fixed 29 bugs.
- Jean-Francois spent most of the week working on regressions, but he also started looking at Apple single/double encoding for sending attachments.
- David helped Alec with expiring history entries and with a history
db corruptionbug. He also helped Seth with
58238 which is a subscribe dialog crasher. He fixed an IMAP interop
bug with the Lotus Domino IMAP server and he continued making progress on
offline mail.
- Varada worked on memory leaks and some regressions.
- Navin implemented expunge Inbox on exit for Imap. He also made it so that the new folder dialog sizes itself correctly.
- Seth made it so that we properly migrate secure mail and news servers
from 4.x. as well as working on the subscribe dialog crasher.
- Bhuvan fixed a crash that occurred when closing the SMTP server dialog.
He also made it so that the account manager list is updated immediately upon
deletion and creation of accounts which prevents the list we save to prefs
from getting messed up.
- Candice made it so that we used nsIFilePicker instead of nsIFileSpecWithUI in the address book.
- araman@cyber-networks.fr worked on 60904 which made it so filters can be edited.
- Peter Annema made the new and rename folder dialogs have focuswhen they come up and he also cleaned up the dialog code.
- andrew.taylor@cal.montage.ca made it so that weshow the recipient column in the drafts and unsent messages folders.
- Ben Bucksch will be trying to enhance the ISP support in Mailnews and Mozilla in general. ISPs should be able to configure Mozilla (mail/news-accounts, proxies, startpage, etc.) with some some consistent and simple steps, without requiring any user intervention and ideally without overwriting any existing configuration.
QA:
- Verified 80 bugs.
- Created 76 bugs.
- Karen Huang updated IMAP Command Execution CREATE, DELETE, RENAME, NOOP, CHECK, EXPUNGE, COPY, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, LOGOUT test cases in IMAP Interoperability Test Spec on Mozilla.
- Ninoschka Bacafinished updating the Account Wizard Visual and Functional test plan.
- Jennifer worked on alternate design ideas for what to do when the
Account Level is selected. This is a top usability problem. She posted
the meeting notes to n.p.m.mail-news. Check out the new and improved
mail-news spec page.