Beta release for TB115

[Jonathan Kamens]

Hey folks,

There is now a beta release of Send Later for Thunderbird 115. Keep reading for additional details about this release. It's not posted on addons.thunderbird.net yet because I want to get some feedback from a limited subset of users before making it generally available.

You can download the XPI file from here and then drag and drop it onto the add-ons management page in TB115 to install it. You will probably want to quit and restart Thunderbird after doing that.

Please report any issues you encounter with this release either as a GitHub issue (preferred) or via email (or you're welcome to ask questions on this list, of course).

You can now support future development and maintenance of Send Later by donating to Extended Thunder Inc., the non-profit charitable organization which supports Send Later. Donations to Extended Thunder are tax-deductible in the United States to the extent permitted by law. You can donate via Liberapay (recurring) or PayPal (one-time).

Note that Jonathan Perry-Houts, who took over from me as maintainer of the add-on starting with Thunderbird 68, has stepped down, and I have resumed maintaining it.

The XPI link above is the same one you can access from the GitHub release page for this release.

Here's the description of this release, copied from that page:

This is a beta release which includes a number of reliability and robustness improvements over the previous release as well as a first pass at supporting Thunderbird 115. This release only supports Thunderbird 115 and newer; it does not support Thunderbird 102.

Caveats and known issues regarding Thunderbird 115:

• It is not possible in Thunderbird 115 for add-ons to add custom columns to the message list, so this functionality has been removed. It will be restored for a later Thunderbird release when it is possible. In the meantime, you can see a list of scheduled messages by clicking on the Send Later button in the main Thunderbird window.

• While the "Send Later" value for a message is displayed in the message header in the main Thunderbird window, the display is currently a bit sloppy (the label and value appear on separate lines instead of a single line). This will be fixed in a later release when it is possible.

Bug fixes in this release (eventually these fixes will also be released in a version that is compatible with Thunderbird 102):

• The header row showing the Send Later value for a message now works reliably; previously it was intermittently failing.
• Send Later now correctly processes all drafts even when you have more than 100 drafts in a folder.
• The functionality for allowing other extensions to get Send Later's preferences was broken but is now working again.
• A bunch of intermittent timing issues have been resolved, making the add-on start up and function with fewer unexplained failures.
• As noted above, the custom Send Later column in the message list has been removed since it doesn't work in Thunderbird 115. However, two bugs in the custom column have been fixed and those fixes will be included in the next Thunderbird 102 release. In particular:
  • The column is now properly enabled / disabled when it should be.
  • The column is displayed on Thunderbird startup if the user has the Drafts folder selected as their initial folder.