Spicebird 0.4
- Integration of email, calendaring and instant messaging into one suite
- Home screen
- Application related applets
- Tasks as a separate application
Spicebird 0.7
- Code cleanup and remove temporary code
- Basic email tabs
- Calendar theme cleanup
- Fix card view
- Restore and test lost features (import/export dialogs? calender prefs, etc.)
- Blogs as Email (Thunderbird addon/Spicebird built-in)
- Post to blogs just as you send mails to your friends!
- See comments as replies to your mail
- Event filter should detect more patterns and allow context based operations on matched within the mail.
- Instant Messaging
- UI improvements to make is as easy as typical IM application
- Store IM conversations
- Home screen applet for buddy list
- Card view improvements
- Formatting options instead of just keyboard shortcuts
- Better chat window
- Move accounts configuration to accounts wizard
- Support account types using gateways
- Get license issues resolved
- Better message alerts
Spicebird 1.0
- Integration with a CMS (Drupal)
- Document management
- More views for calendar and tasks
- Microsoft Exchange connector
- Multiple backends for tasks management
- Partial project management features
- A more meaningful address book
- Last conversation/chat with a contact
- Source of contact
Later
- Social networking inside address book
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Comments
Support for Attachment Extractor
Good for you!
Up to v1.2
Current version (for TBird is 1.34
Coming?
Status Search - v0.71
has no "has" or "has no" attachments.
Coming?
Also, aside from GMail UI, there doesn't
seem to be a way to search or to save
custom searches.
Coming?
Nice to have a roadmap. Great
Nice to have a roadmap. Great Application. Thanks for making it open sourced.
One note
Great programm! I'm waiting for the german version.
I thing, if spicebird (later) will works with Open-Office - nobody needs an Office by Microsoft.
Good work, thanks.
feature chat log
please add chat log feature to spicebird so i can track all conversation between me and my friend/user.
currently, i still pidgin since it has logging feature
thank you
Browser and IRC intigration
Hi i am part of the Kuki Linux Development Team for the Aspire One Netbook.
I am currently testing Spicebird for possible inclusion into our next release and wonder if it would be possible to add a Kuki Linux / Spicebird logo to the main tab.
Talking about tabs , it would be nice to be able to move the tabs to the left or right side of the window due to netbook screen size.
All that seems missing now is a Web Browser Tab and IRC integration into the Chat Tab.
Contact me on freenode #kukilinux or haggis@kuki.me
www.kuki.me
More Calendar options in applet
Hi it would be great if the applet for the home screen which can advise upcoming events had extra options to see more than 2 weeks in advance from the current date. ie 1 month, 2 months etc. I don't have a lot of things in my calendar (mainly birthdays and scheduled jobs around the house that need to happen every 3 - 6 - 12 months like pest inspections, insurance due etc.) Would be great to see more info from the calendar on the home page
Also a similar function for tasks that are open to be displayed on the home page with options of in progress and / or not started.
Anyhow awesome app and looking forward to the future developments of this app.
Bad page to Uninstall survey
Spicebird Uninstall Survey
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Support for WebOS (Palm Pre)
With the upcoming release of the Palm Pre and the companion WebOS, I think the Spicebird project has a real opportunity. If you can be the best or only integrated mobile/desktop client you could really drive quite a bit of exposure on the coattails of the media hype surrounding this potential iPhone killer. With the WebOs being so supportive of web & browser-oriented technologies, Spicebird might be uniquely positioned to leapfrog into a leadership position on this exciting new mobile platform. Just a thought.
PalmOS and WebOS sync
Hello, I've just tried spicebird and I think it rocks! even in beta fase.
The five tabs windows is very clear for the interfase. The "home" tab with google applets is great!. An excelent brother of mozilla Thunderbird.
Your are right Steve, it would by nice to sync my contacts, calendar, task and notes with the upcoming WebOS (Spicebird boys might add a tab with "notes" functionality to spicebird). With current palm OS would be nice too. Spicebird could be the replacement for the old "Palm Desktop".
I think the "account setup" should have explicit option to configure yahoo, aol or hotmail just like google account.
It would by nice to setup all posible functions only with the account. For example, I setup a google account and it configures mail and: contacts, calendar and task (there is no "notes" in google). The same for Yahoo, AOL and Hotmail.
While I'd love to see the MAPI(Exchange) connector, GroupDAV
Our main email system appears to be adding GroupDAV support. The web interface is also moving to web 2.0 and it looks a lot like Thunderbird. I'd love to see Spicebird at GroupDAV support - http://www.groupdav.org/. It's open source and if all email servers adopt it. Then it gives us an open alternative to MAPI.
This means that every email client can implement a standard connector and work with any other open source GroupDAV compliant server. That is huge and can't come soon enough.
-Nyle
egroupware support
Thanks for spicebird - really a great exchange for the very slow developing thunderbrid. The only problem we have is that we use egroupware for contacs, calendar etc. and unfortunatly the calendar (using caldav) is not working correctly. With the actual thunderbird/lightning combination there is no problem.
Maybe there is a chance that these two great open-source tools work together?
Thanks!
Applets
I'd like to see a weather applet, perhaps hooked into NOAA, via zip code. I spend considerable time outdoors on my job and like to know if I'm going to be walking in the freezing rain, sleet or snow. I go to NOAA each day, but having one application I open and get all the info I need for that day would be nice.
Spicebird for MacBook
just love my Spicebird mail on my windows machine, but normally use my Mac book. any plans to develop a version for Mac?
WebMail (trick the online non-POP3/IMAP servers) Plugin
Hi Spicebird,
I've migrated to Spicebird and have been REALLY impressed at it's stability, even in it's Beta stage. My only thing is that Thunderbird has a WebMail plugin that {tricks} other online non-pop3 email providers (actually they provide pop3 - if you pay), but not for free. However, as you know, with the WebMail plugin, it tricks them and thus allows you to download your emails regularly to Thunderbird.
I hope to add the WebMail plugin to the Spicebird Map.
Mac OS X version
There are 3 main desktop systems in the world: Win, Linux and MacOS.
The whole world waits the SpiceBird for Mac OS X! :)
I agree.
To be able to run Spicebird on OS X would be very important.
Mac OS X version
+1 for cryo's comment - please don't forget Mac!
I use Eudora (Penelope) for the moment, but integration with other tools would be useful.
another one waiting
+1 for a OS X version
Groupware-Connectivity
I see you plan to integrate connectivity with Exchange and Drupal, which is great. Instead of each we use eGroupware (its calendar, address book and site-manager, to be specific), though, to support open source efforts. If spicebird could support that too, it would help us a lot. Thumbs up!
Dual boot with same mail store
One thing that I've always liked with Outlook is that I can keep my mail store on a different partition and use it with both OS from my dual boot. I haven't found a way to do this with Spicebird or Thunderbird and I'm not sure if there is a way, but it would be nice if this could be added. This also keeps my email file safe and easy to back up.
I use 1 thunderbird profile
I use 1 thunderbird profile for both windows and linux. It's easy enough.
Your profile by default is in "C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\thunderbird"
(for vista like c:\users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\thunderbird)
there is a profile.ini file and a folder with random name (like "yhlde4p2.default"). This folder stores your profile's data. One folder for each profile.
Move this folder ("yhlde4p2.default") to another location and then edit profile.ini to handle new location. example:
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=d:\information\mozilla\thunderbird\yhlde4p2.default
Default=1
Warning! if thunderbird fail to find profile (if you made a mistake in path or didn't set Relative to 0), it will not start. Error sounds like "Thuderbird is already started or does not respond". Then just check folder, etc...
Sorry for my English...
Spicebird for MAC OS X
Recently I moved from Windows to MAC OS X. What I miss most is Spicebird version!
Mac???
It is so difficulty to port it to the mac?
two missed features...
Hi,
I'm a regular user of thunderbird and I found very useful the '' key sequence. I tried this with spicebird but the sequence was ignored.
Finally, although the thunderbird filters were imported, the mail module in spicebird didn't filter the incoming e-mails. Then, I tried to run the filters over the inbox folder but it didn't work, too.
Anyway, it looks that will become an amazing tool, thanks.
Multiple instances of Spicebird
I am having trouble opening two or more instances of Spicebird on a single computer (one each for multiple users on a single computer). Am I doing something wrong?
As of now (using the latest .7 release) I have to close the DBUS-daemon process, switch user and then open spice bird for that user?
Any help would be appreciated
thanks
Re: Multiple instances of Spicebird
On GNU/Linux this should not be a problem. On Windows dbus-daemon listens on a fixed port and causes a clash when multiple instances are run. Although we were aware of the problem, we didn't think it was serious and set to fix it later. I raised a bug in the issue tracker and marked it as blocking next release (which will have much shorter release cycle).
There might be work around for this by having multiple copies of Spicebird with different dbus server configuration. Follow the bug at:
https://bugzilla.spicebird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049
Project management...
Hi,
Is there any way to share documents, agenda and task to perform basic project management with Spicebird? In the near future? Any other tool like this?
Thanks in advance.
Jose
Mac OS X
You must provide a Mac OS X version. Thunderbird and Sunbird are available for Mac OS X, so that should help you with any porting issues.
Mutiple calendar snyc
Sync calendar with: home & work; Send/recieve calendars to other PIM users; Group calendar for entry by all users in that group, then available for cross-loading.
microblogging intergration
integration of federated microblogging support would be nice, default setups to something like identi.ca would be nice
nice to have...
Im working a lot with spicebird since 0.4 which must mean that i like it. :-)
however what i miss:
Ability to add own tabs (especially with google applets)
a small light weight browser?!
A nice RSS Reader
in pre 0.7 for me is not working:
- Calender import from google just imports partial.
- Mail are not shown in Home applet if IMAP
- Contact import is not working at all for me.
Can you provide compatibility for Citadel 2.0 Calendar/Task/Note
Please see if you can provide compability for Citadel 2.0 for shared calendar/task/notes area.
This Spicebird coupled with Citadel 2 would be a back breaker for Exchange.
I second that!
I second that!
Backup Spicebird for Linux
I've just transitioned to Linux and have obtained Spicebird. I'm using Ubuntu, latest release, with the Gnome desktop.
I have a folder titled .Spicebird. Does this contain all the info for my install? Windows like to scatter things around. I don't know if Linux does the same thing.
If I do a nightly copy of my .Spicebird folder to my USB drive, will this constitute a complete backup? And can I copy this folder to my laptop and have a complete Spicebird system?
Thanks.
Backup Spicebird for Linux
The .spicebird folder will contain the entire profile and data including mails, imap cache, addressbook, calendars, preferences, certificates, account info, passwords etc. There are exceptions though, mostly when you explicitly change the settings:
1) If you explicitly change the settings to store mails to a folder outside .spicebird
2) Your signature files if they are present outside .spicebird
Thanks! I appreciate the
Thanks! I appreciate the help.
SyncML
I think this will be a great outlook substitute (even better) if it got SyncML support!
Exchange compatability is NOT "meaningless"
Outlook rejection is not "MS hate." Outlook is for those who yearn for a proprietary, locked-down system of 1997 vintage. Anyone who thinks Outlook is free, please try and find it in shareware or freeware. Lets face it: most of us use Outlook not because we choose it as the best option but because our employers have Exchange servers and we can't access the Exchange server with anything else (unless we beg and plead with the IT people to enable IMAP or POP.) You can't sync your Outlook data with other applications that do not pay homage and license fees to MS because of Outlook's proprietary file structures.
Many of us are yearning for a modern system with some combination of e-mail, task, calendering, contacts and journaling that will allow data migration between other applications.
So, please press ahead with Exchange compatability and free us from the tyranny of Outlook. And while working on sync, please do not forget the legions of Palm OS users.
Absolutely! If you guys are
Absolutely! If you guys are serious about taking on the Outlook-dominated office world, face it by the front door and make proper compatibility add-ons/modules. Once done, people will have a real alternative and this will mean the arrival of the transition era.
thundebrowse for more comfort
thunderbrowse is a addon for Thunderbird. Somit hat man die verlinkten Website im Nachrichtenfenster lesen. Ohne das Email Programm zu verlassen. Wie eine Brücke. Diese Zusatz diese Idee ist so natürlich das es alss Killer Applikation für Spcebird dienen soll.
Great product - Any timeframe for next release?
Hi, I've been using Spicebird exclusively since March or so. It's a bit buggy obviously (which is why it's a 0.4) - particularly with email fonts and sizes. Are you guys working on any kind of timeline for the next release? Or is it more a situation of "whenever we get around to it?" The Roadmap doesn't have any dates on it which implies the latter.
No disrespect intended, but we all would like to know whether this is a serious program that will be improved, bugs fixed, etc., or whether 0.4 pretty much stands on its own and is effectively dead in the water.
(Please don't make me go back to Outlook!)
-I Love Spicebird
Guys- Wonderful program. I
Guys- Wonderful program. I do see from your posts that you are working hard. The only thing that i keep wondering about is the future stability of your company. I know that Mozilla will be around for some time. How do you respond to my above statement. Who are you guys. What is your revenue stream? are you solid.
I already am using your program. But i would not risk implementing it in the corporate environment. I would install and experiment with it personally.
Import Thunderbird mail and settings
Any plans to allow Spicebird to import Thunderbird settings and mail, residing on the same or another computer? It seems a bit silly that one can only import TB stuff in a hackish kind of way.
Hi, Do you have a schedule
Hi,
Do you have a schedule for release for each of the beta versions and 1.0?
Thanks!
What is the status of the next release?
I have been enjoying Spicebird for sometime now but I am wondering when the next release when be done? I do not want to stick with a product if it is not going to be develop anymore.
CMS integration
I second trond on the CMS integration issue. Why Drupal and not other systems? WP, MODX, Silverstrpe, Joomla....
IMHO it will be better to leave CMS integration alone.
synching
synching with mobile devices (esp. nokia) via synchml or something like webdav.
more calendar-features like reminder-fox. better integration with rainlendar.
some gtd-functionality & integration with thinking rock task-lists
synching
synching with mobile devices (esp. nokia) via synchml or something like webdav.
more calendar-features like reminder-fox. better integration with rainlendar.
some gtd-functionality & integration with thinling rock task-lists
synching
synching with mobile devices (esp. nokia) via synchml or something like webdav.