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late change in Thunderbird and Seamonkey for custom search attributes.

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Kent James

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Jul 7, 2009, 6:01:22 PM7/7/09
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Bug 495519 "Allow extensions to add custom search terms" landed today
some new strings, that I would like to point out and explain here.

1) filter.properties

To see the dialogs that use these strings, follow these steps (in TB,
similar instructions work also in SM):

- Select a local message folder, then Tools/Message Filters.
- In the Message Filters dialog, select New...
- In the Filter Rules dialog, change "apply filter when" to "Manually Run"
- Define a filter if Junk Status is Junk, then Mark as Read.
- change "apply filter when" to "Checking Mail"
- Press "OK" to try to save the filter.

The dialog then appears with the new strings.

2) search-attributes.properties and search-operators.properties

These strings can only occur with extensions loaded. They occur in the
filter editor dialog, or in the similar search dialogs.

"Missing Custom Term" would occur in the Filter Editor dialog (or
Search) in the attribute menu popup, which has others attributes such as
"Subject" and "From"

"matches" or "doesn't match" would occur in the Filter Editor dialog (or
Search) in the operator menu popup, which has other operators such as
"contains" and "begins with".

Thank you for your efforts, and please forgive these late strings!

Kent James (:rkent)

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