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Ready for TB 68+?
Is this addon ready for the usage with Thunderbird 68 and higher (or probably 67)? If not, are there plans to update it?
Note the commit https://github.com/wangvisual/autoarchive/commit/31292a5bd80ea3d68c2c0d5cc3bca65d70c4a056 "add src/manifest.json for TB69, note: not fully work yet"
The upgrade to 68+ takes a fair amount of work, no doubt it will come eventually.
This would be awesome, I feel lost without this plugin :) I'd happily insert some coins if that would be helpful.
There doesn't seem to be any movement at all on this -- very concerning to me as my whole email handling (I have about 8 accounts I need to handle) depends on this add-on :(
I would gladly donate $20
@wangvisual could you say anything on this topic? Maybe you could just contact me and we could talk about what's needed to get this super helpful plugin back to work. Thanks!
I see nothing happening -- Wang Opera has three addons, none have been updated for the new Thunderbird, and no comments from the developer for many months on any of them.
Time permitting, it would be worth branching this or contributing. With a single developer working on something it should be concerning because life (and death) happens and a project can abruptly end.
I would also appreciate any news – or suggestions for alternatives, should there be none. Thanks!
I have spent many hours trying to see how I might do the half-dozen things I do with this addon in other ways, so far I have found nothing.
Hey, that's promising - a sign of life from wangvisual! :-) Wang Opera, please share your plans for this super useful plugin with us. Looks like there are quite a few enthusiastic users willing to support the required update to TB 68+ either with some money or by actually taking part of the work!
I'm lost without this....folders are filling up, didn't even realize how much I was doing with it until it stopped working!!
Just installed Mint 19.3 and it came with Thunderbird 68.2.2 Awesome Auto Archive successfully collected 40gigs of monthly email back to 2014. But the plugin says no longer supported. Any luck adopting it to TB 68? Where do we send starbucks gift certs?
For people who aren't afraid of code, I've had success with this utility: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
Took a couple hours for me to figure out how to code my rules using examples online, but it works.
Looking to src code, it seems that Wang knows the problem because there are changes related to 68.x version. I see there is a beta 0.9 version but I don't know if it's working in the last thunderbird (manifest.json reports compatible but you never know... it's just a string... anyone has tried it?) and how to install a beta version. Thank you.
Looking to src code, it seems that Wang knows the problem because there are changes related to 68.x version. I see there is a beta 0.9 version but I don't know if it's working in the last thunderbird (manifest.json reports compatible but you never know... it's just a string... anyone has tried it?) and how to install a beta version. Thank you.
I've installed 0.9 beta but it remains disabled, i've tried to edit the manifest to change the TB compatibility range but that also did not help.
Before updating to TB 68+ I wanted to know if there would still be this Add-On working. After reading this issue, my hopes are gone. No comment and update since a while from the developer :( OK then, I will stay on TB 62 some longer. Or anybody knows a working replacement for this Add-On?
EDIT: I just found AutoarchiveReloaded, for TB 68+, which seems to be under active development and seems to do the job (I need), to automatically move older mails to a local store, to keep the online mail account small enough.
I also don't see any movement here. Can you use AutoarchiveReloaded to archive a different account?
Can you use AutoarchiveReloaded to archive a different account?
Especially that it is doing. You need to configure all accounts first (default is no autoarchve at all). But you cannot choose folders in your account, just all the mails in your accounts older than x days. And it relys to the archive settings of TB in the account setting. So the archive folder is to set there! Seems that this Add-On is quite basic and not that rich-featured than wangvisual's, but I guess for me it should be enough.
After waiting for months, I have given up. I have managed to get Thunderbird to do some of the things, some I will do manually. I don't love it, but wanted a couple of the things that 68+ gives me.
Hi @wangvisual
Please give as an update on what your plan is.
Even if the plan is to not fix it, then we know if we need to wait or move on.
There's some pretty significant changes to Thunderbird, so it's a lot of work to expect updates especially for a free add-on. Looking forward at Thunderbird, it appears there are going to be some significant updates in version 70. So, Thunderbird is getting better, but a lot of add-ons that make it really awesome are not going to work. This could cost Thunderbird some market share.
For anybody who can, reviewing the developer area and trying to chip in and help out would be great. I've taken a look but I'm very limited on time for the next several months. It would be nice to branch this, help Wangvisual out, then see if updates can be merged back in.
@wangvisual could you say anything on this topic? Maybe you could just contact me and we could talk about what's needed to get this super helpful plugin back to work. Thanks!
Just to repeat @wangvisual: I'd be happy to help funding the development to get a working plugin for current Tbird versions, I just need to know a $$number to check if it is possible. Thanks a lot!
I'm another who'd gladly donate if this fabulous addon can be updated to 68+ Nothing else does what I need and it'd be a big pain to do it all manually. Have reverted back to TB 60 for now, just to keep using Awesome.
