Looking at the announcement of the Facebook Graph API from Facebook F8 it seems like it will be a little easier to work with the Facebook system. In Raindrop we already have some integration with Facebook in order to identify emails coming from the Facebook system and help you filter them out. But there is [...]

Should links inside emails be considered attachments?  In the technical sense of an email (like rfc 2183) links wouldn’t be considered a different content type.  The question isn’t whether they are technically attachments as much as if they should be attachment-like in the user interface. Facebook Facebook handles links in a message almost like an [...]

I spent some time on Friday and Monday writing a script to do some analysis of the Enron Email Dataset.  I’m working on a new type of message list view for thunderbird, well a whole new layout actually, but for the message view I wanted to have an idea of message size and content. Email [...]

It’s time to start looking into a new search method for Thunderbird. One of the major changes planned for Thunderbird is a new and improve search, but what does that mean? What do we have? First lets look at what we have for a search system.  At a very simple level most search systems break [...]