Notification: Extending "My Mail" plugin (5 Viewers)

[bigj]

Hey R+J,

It's great to see this is progressing well - nice one.

Regards,
BigJ.

 

[idioteque]

add the option to encrypt the mail passwords so they are not directly visible in the MP xml

 

[reagan+carter]

passwords are now stored in database, not in xml files. Is this enough?

 

[Fidoboy]

What about hotmail email checking? will it be available?

 

[reagan+carter]

Sorry I won't do it, someone else will have to. But one aim of this plugin is the provide a common framework and ease development of (non-instant) messaging systems w\in Mediaportal.

Adding support for Hotmail HTTP transactions *should* only be a matter of putting some protocol-related code into the right parts of the plugin.

EDIT:
WIP status:
last week end I was fighting against the GUI architecture to provide on-the-fly message content update. It's indeed quite a war. As soon as this part of the program and the HTML viewing capability are finished (+ a nasty thread dealock bug is fixed) I will upload a first alpha version of the plugin. Severely crippled compared to the expected release version but should be almost similar to Agree's plugin reagrding functionalities, though.

 

[rtv]

passwords are now stored in database, not in xml files. Is this enough?

I've added EncryptDecrypt.cs in Core/Util for audioscrobbler configuration - you just pass your password string as parameter and get the encrypted pass back; very easy to use

 

[reagan+carter]

I've added EncryptDecrypt.cs in Core/Util for audioscrobbler configuration

Great, i will import this file next time I work on the plugin (I use a very old SVN corresponding to the stable 0.2 version).
Since this request and up till now, I used a MD5 hash generator, with a fixed hard-coded key, to process passwords both ways (quick & dirty but it's the way thunderbird protects them from uninvited eyes, so...). I don't kn

EDIT: done. passwords are now protected using EncryptDecrypt.cs. Thanks rtv

 

[mdolan]

Variable password entry

Would it be possible to allow entering the password via the text entry system as opposed to keeping it stored in the configuration file?

This would allow multiple users to use the system while keeping their email semi-confidential?

Great plugin though!

Cheers,
Mike

 

[reagan+carter]

this will be put on my improvement short list. but right now far more pressing issues need to be addressed in the upcoming very-few-hours-on-wkend coding session.

the main problem with this request is that auto-update - that was meant to be transparent to user - is pretty useless if you don't know the password beforehand. nagging the user for password every X minutes is a serious joykilling limitation. very very unpleasant.
how do you make up this multi-user approach from a user's perspective? a sort of login/logout system to protect one's account?

 

[idioteque]

thx you guys for the quick password fix.

About the hotmail checking:

there is a opensource webmail plugin for thunderbird.

I use it and it's very good

About

The Webmail extension integrates web site based email accounts in to Mozllia Thunderbird, this allows Thunderbird to download and to send emails using the web site.

Currently Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos (Europe), MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero, and AOL domains are supported.

http://webmail.mozdev.org/


Source Code

The webmail source code can be accessed in either of the following ways:

* View the source using the CVS web interface
* Check out the source using anonymous CVS with the following commands (password is guest):

cvs -d server:guest@mozdev.org:/cvs login
cvs -z3 -d server:guest@mozdev.org:/cvs co webmail


CVS clients and Help Documentation can be found at cvshome.org.