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Integration of TaskCoach with Mozilla Thunderbird

Asked by Mauricio

Dear sirs:

I have been trying to integrate my e-mail (Mozilla Thunderbird) with TaskCoach, I am trying with the "drag and Drop" procedure, but it does not seem to be working. Nothing is shown in the tasks to which I have attached some e-mails. ¿What could be happening?

I have open my e-mail client (Thunderbird) and a specific task (in the attachments window) in task coach, I select one of my e-mails, dragged and dropped it on the attachments window of a specific task without any problem, warning or error message, but at the end, nothing has happened the e-mail has never been attached to my task.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Kinf regards.

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Frank Niessink (frank-niessink) said : 		#1

We have had issues for a while with Thunderbird and drag-and-drop not working. I'll look into it again. What version of Thunderbird are you using on what platform?

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Mauricio (mauricio-hdz) said : 		#2

*Dear Mr. Niessink:

Tahnk you very much for your promt answer to my question.

I am using Task Coach Version 1.2.6 Mozilla Thunderbird Version 3.1.7 and
all this is running in a Desktop PC under Windows XP Professional SP3

Regards,

**Mauricio H.
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2011/1/5 Frank Niessink <email address hidden>

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Frank Niessink (frank-niessink) said : 		#3

I've applied a fix for this issue. Will be part of the next bug fix release.

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Mauricio (mauricio-hdz) said : 		#4

*Dear Mr. Niessink:

Thank you for your answer. ¿When is this patch going to be available?

Regards,

**Mauricio H.
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2011/1/5 Frank Niessink <email address hidden>

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Frank Niessink (frank-niessink) said : 		#5

The plan is to release 1.2.7 this coming weekend. In the mean time, you can download a recent build to test the fix. See http://www.fraca7.net/TaskCoach-packages/latest_bugfixes.py (under the Release1_2_Branch heading).

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#6

Still does not work for me. Although the "+"-Sign is next to the mouse pointer before dropping.
TB 3.1.7 / TC 1.2.7 portable / Win7 64 bit

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Jérôme Laheurte (fraca7) said : 		#7

I'm going to do some serious refactoring this week-end and test all platforms.

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Mauricio (mauricio-hdz) said : 		#8

Still the same issue: the "+" sign next to the mouse while dropping, but nothing gets attached to my Task Coach database/task.
Using TaskCoach 1.2.7 WXP Pro SP3

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Jérôme Laheurte (fraca7) said : 		#9

BTW, do you use Thunderbird profiles ? IMAP or POP ? Through SSL ?

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#10

POP3, partly with SSL.

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Frank Niessink (frank-niessink) said : 		#11

Also note that the fix for drag and drop from Thunderbird in release 1.2.7 is not working correctly. Can you download a recent build from http://www.fraca7.net/TaskCoach-packages/latest_bugfixes.py (under the Release1_2_Branch heading) and see whether that helps?

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#12

Just installed 1.2.8.
Dragging and dropping now work. But now there is a problem with the charset. It says "UTF8"..
Can't Task Coach handle UTF8?

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Frank Niessink (frank-niessink) said : 		#13

Can you be more precise? Who says "UTF8"? What kind of error message do you get exactly? Thanks, Frank

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#14

After dropping and double-clicking the mail (includes one answer) in Task Coach I get the text below. With the message from Launchpad it works although it is UTF 8 too. So there is another problem here..

Special characters like Ü, Ä, ß etc. are not displayed correctly..

--------------080105030404080105040406
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

> 4 Evaluierung der Lösungsmöglichkeiten

>
> Viele Grüße

>

--------------08010503040408010234234235040406
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
  </head>
  <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
              [Text cleared]
      </font> <br>
    </blockquote>
  </body>
</html>

--------------0801050304040845345340105040406--

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Jérôme Laheurte (fraca7) said : 		#15

That's because the message was transfered as a multipart MIME message. Task Coach does not try to parse MIME parts.

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#16

Ok, but isn't it the usual case to have multiple messages in one?

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Jérôme Laheurte (fraca7) said : 		#17

Not really. Outlook really abuses this.

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#18

Here you have it. Multiple messages are not needed...

Special characters seem to be a problem...Look what your name has become...

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Not really. Outlook really abuses this.

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Jérôme Laheurte (fraca7) said : 		#19

Yes, Outlook also abuses this kind of encoding, presuming that other MUAs wouldn't understand Unicode, I guess. Working around the various quirks of Outlook would basically amount to re-implementing a mail user agent, which is no feat, and would produce more bugs than it would solve problems...

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#20

I don't understand you. Thunderbird reads this Unicode message without problems.

"Outlook also abuses this kind of encoding." What kind of encoding?

EDIT:
I just found out, that TB obviously already stores the information wrong. In the source code of the last message your name is already wrong: "J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me", but viewing the message in TB it is all correct. So it doesn't happen while importing. :(

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Jérôme Laheurte (fraca7) said : 		#21

Yes, that's what I mean. Outlook uses an outdated way of encoding non-ASCII characters; most MUAs, including Thunderbird, are able to recognize this and decode it in order to display it correctly. But it's a *lot* of work. And error prone.

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toomuch (toomuch) said : 		#22

Thanks for the info.

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