Current events
From Milimail
10/06/2008: new roadmap
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A new roadmap has been published.
For further information, see Roadmap.
22/05/2008 : Version 0.6.1.7 of Notifications Viewer
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Notification viewer is a plugin for Thunderbird which shows delivery status notification (DSN) and message disposition notification (MDN) to the user.
More informations: Notifications_viewer
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14/04 2008 : Version 0.5.2.0 of XSMTP extension
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Add update.rdf file to the extension. Manage the update functionnality.
14/04/2008 : Welcome to Daniel Rocher new contributor to the Milimail project
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Daniel Rocher works on a project for the French Navy and joined the team through its contribution for Milimail.
In fact, for this project Daniel develops an extension for Thunderbird around the correlation of notifications (DSN:RFC3461).
After the integration of the extension, it will soon be available to download, the entire team Milimail says welcome to Daniel.
04/08/2008: Versioning convention
The community explains how to manage the version number of the software Milimail and those extensions.
"About versioning convention..."
03/05/2008: Change of Name
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The Milimail project wishes to change its name. Be the first to give your opinion and your suggestions!
The community is invited to comment the following names. Moreover the project is open to any proposal on the Milimail forum.
Propositions:
- Professional Addons For Thunderbird : PATH
- Thunderbird Professional Enhancement : TPE
- Feathers For Thunderbird
- Stealth Thunderbird
- Covert Thunderbird (Secret and small feathers optimizing the airflow around the bird)
- Sendgraf (German word meaning "Missus Dominicus" Messager)
- Storkmail (The stork is a renowned postman)
- CoatMail (In french 'cotte de mailles')
- SecureMail
- StoneMail
- BlackPenny
- ChainMail
- Admimail
Link to the discussion:
Forum Milimail and link to the article on linuxfr.org: "Le projet Milimail désire changer de nom" (french)
02/19/2008: Mozilla Messaging
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
"The launch of Mozilla Messaging has been announced, the new name for the entity I’ve been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it’s a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications. We’ve put up the essential information about the organization on the website."
More on David Ascher's blog post...
01/30/2008: Milimail - Solutions Linux/Open Source 2008 - Tristan Nitot reports on his conversation with a representative of the French Defense Ministry
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
At the end of the conference on sustainability and governance of open source software, Tristan Nitot had the pleasure of asking few questions to Thierry Leblond about their orientations in term of messaging. See more... (in French)
More on Thunderbird in France from David Ascher of MailCo ...
01/18/2008: Milimail present the 01/30/2008 at the event dedicated to the Solutions Linux/Open Source.
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
January 30, 2008 between 11h00 and 12h30, during the Adele conference (french) : Sustainability and governance of free solutions.
- Thierry LEBLOND - DGSIC / MINISTERE DE LA DEFENSE will talk about Milimail : Interactions with national and international communities.
About it : event dedicated to the Solutions Linux/Open Source.
01/14/2008: Milimail v1 June 2008
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The major version of Milimail v1 is scheduled to come out in June 2008.
01/01/2008: Happy New Year
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The Milimail project team wishes you a happy new year!
12/19/2007: Elaboration of the roadmap for v1 Milimail
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
Period development and validation of the activity there for the first half of 2008 on the project to establish the new roadmap for release v1 of Milimail.
12/01/2007: Specifications of the new features for v1 Milimail
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
- Features under study:
- correlation of notifications,
- API Application Programming Interface,
- Distribution (Linux/Windows)
- ...
11/20/2007: David Ascher from MailCo in Paris
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
David Ascher met a set of representatives from public sector institutions in Paris on November 20, 2007.
10/11/2007: Meeting report
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The goal of this meeting is to work to specify futurs functionalities. As well as the adjustments to be done for the roadmap version 1 of Milimail.
The functionalities are as follows:
- XSMTP.
- DSN.
- MDN.
- correlation of notifications.
- management of the priority.
- triple wrapping.
09/20/2007: DSN added to Main Trunk of Mozilla Thunderbird
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
DSN (Delivery Status Modification) is now commited to the main trunk of Mozilla. Milimail thank Mozilla Thunderbird Team for accepting this contribution. Story link
09/03/2007: CRL_OVER_LDAP Released
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The first release of the functionnality CRL over LDAP is available. This functionality allows to use a LDAP directory to import a CRL.
08/01/2007: MULTI_LDAP Released
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The the functionnality Multi LDAP has been released. This functionality allows to use the autocompletion with multiple LDAP directory.
07/10/2007: Meeting report
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The objectives of the meeting were as follows :
- To present/to point out the context and the objectives of the Milimail project,
- To collect the informations for the points suspends some on the integration of the standard xSMTP v1.1 in the v0 of Milimail and functions (GUI, limitation of the messages size, MDN, DSN),
- To collect additional information and needs on the functionalities to be integrated in the next versions of Milimail (correlation of notifications, management of priority in the wraps, version 2 of the standard xSMTP).
Many ministries were invited to this meeting of Milimail work, so that Milimail client integrates many functionalities for the French administrations while respecting the PEA.
06/26/2007: DSN Released
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The first release of the functionnality DSN is available. This functionality allows the sender of a message to ask a Delivery Status Notification.
05/14/2007: SIGNED_RECEIPT Released
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The first release of the functionnality SIGNED_RECEIPT is available. This functionality allows the sender of a message to ask the recipient to sent back a signed notification.
05/02/2007: TRIPLE_WRAPPING Released
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The first release of the functionnality TRIPLE_WRAPPING is available. This functionality allows, when sending a message, to provide the option to use triple wrapping. A triple wrapped message is a message signed, then encrypted, then signed.
04/26/2007: SEND_FORMAT_LDAP Released
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The first release of the extension SEND_FORMAT_LDAP is available. This extension allows, when sending a message, to find supported email formats for the recipients (Text, HTML) by looking up these informations in a LDAP directory.
In the standard release of Thunderbird, the supported email formats for the recipients are only look up on local address books. The value defined in the LDAP directory is not taken in account.
04/26/2007: MDN_EXTENDED Released
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The first release of the extension MDN_EXTENDED is available.
The MDN or (Message Disposition Notification) is the functionality that allows the sender of a message to ask the recipient to sent back a notification. This notification can be one of the followings :
- a Read receipt: the recipient notifies that he has read the message.
- a Delete receipt: the recipient notifies that he has deleted the message.
The classic release of Thunderbird, handles only Read receipt. This extension handles the Delete receipt in order to be fully compliant with the specification (RFC 3798).
04/26/2007: Meeting with Mozilla Corporation
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
On March 2, Milimail team met Mike Schroepfer, Vice President Engineering, and Peter Van Der Beken, Mozilla Europe developer. Milimail project has been exposed and most relevant interlocutors has been identified. A very interesting meeting which should be profitable for the project!
03/01/2007: Milimail on the forge Admisource
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The project is hosted on Milimail French forge Admisource. Find out sources and documentation in a cvs, tracking bugs, forums and mailing lists.
02/01/2007: Start implementation
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
The core team is ready and has started to write functional and technical specifications.
11/07/2006: XSMTP standard on line
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
This document is downloadable in Documentation.
The XSMTP format brings a description of the additional elements of service which can be implemented in SMTP mail systems.
09/13/2006: The Milimail.org community site goes on line
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
That's it, the first version of the Milimail site is on line! This site describes the project objectives, the target program and the roadmap.
The site has deliberately been put on line before the first versions of the program, whose development starts end 2006/early 2007.
01/13/2006: Launch of the Milimail project
Link to this article: http://www.milimail.org/milimail/index.php/Current_events
As part of a study to accurately identify the potential advantages of public software, the DGA is launching the Milimail project. This program includes two main steps:
- 2006: State of the art, definition of the technical and functional perimeter, creation of the development platform.
- 2007 to 2010: development of the tool and life of the community.
The program aims to develop a set of plugins for the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client in order to handle protocols such as X400 and XSMTP.
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