{"id":697,"date":"2007-02-27T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/02\/27\/undocumented-thunderbird-function-help-needed\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T19:01:29","slug":"undocumented-thunderbird-function-help-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/02\/undocumented-thunderbird-function-help-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Undocumented Thunderbird function – help needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

For documenting a research project<\/a> I want to insert quick links to previous emails. Clicking a link should kickstart Thunderbird and go directly to a known message. Mozilla.org<\/a> says<\/p>\n

\nAthough Google desktop is able to do it, there is no clear API to instruct Thunderbird to display a given email stored in its mail box (knowing the folder & message ID)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is how Google Desktop Search (GDS) links to an email<\/p>\n

\"gsdurl.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What I have found out so far by comparing different links<\/p>\n

(1) is the fixed parameter relating to my hard disk??
\n(2) is a variable parameter relating to the physical location of my \\daten\\Mail\\thunderbird\\imap\\INBOX file??
\n(3) is the unique Message-ID that may be seen in Thunderbird with the View Header<\/a> plugin
\n(4) the variable salt\/seed value that is stored in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\\\Google\\\\CustomSearch\\\\Google Desktop Search\\\\Url which may be retrieved with a 2 line perl script.<\/p>\n

So I am ready to construct URLs that link to an email by using GDS. This is, however, not very elegant. Isn’t there any other way (maybe by a Thunderbird extension) to construct and follow links directly to emails? Can somebody trace with Sysinternals<\/a> Process Explorer what GDS spits out and follow it up at XUL planet<\/a> ? <\/p>\n\n

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\n CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.06.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For documenting a research project I want to insert quick links to previous emails. Clicking a link should kickstart Thunderbird and go directly to a known message. Mozilla.org says Athough Google desktop is able to do it, there is no clear API to instruct Thunderbird to display a given email stored in its mail box … Continue reading Undocumented Thunderbird function – help needed<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2949,709,708,711,703,710,302],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-computer-software","tag-gds","tag-email","tag-extension-needed","tag-kickstart","tag-mozilla","tag-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}