Autoit and Thunderbird

[Atila]

Hello, my first post and I apologise, I’m a newbie at Autoit but very keen to learn.

I’ve had some success coding some very simple scripts and now want to do something a little more complicated (well, in my eyes anyway!!)

What I want to achieve is very simple and that’s a message box that contains the number of unread messages in Thunderbirds Inbox.

In other words, if there are five unread messages in Thunderbirds Inbox then the Autoit message box would simply have a number 5 in it. The script would then also update its self, say every 15 seconds to see if the number had changed due to a new messages arriving in the Inbox or an email being read.

So my first question is.... can this be done using Autoit?

And my second question is.... can anyone point me in the right direction to achieve it?

Many thanks

Atila

[Mat]

If the mailbox is known then you can deal with it directly using imap.

I don't think there will be amy easy way to get AutoIt and thunderbird talking. Since thunderbird is designed to work across many systems, it won't have a nice easy interface for AutoIt to use.

[jvanegmond]

I don't think there will be amy easy way to get AutoIt and thunderbird talking. Since thunderbird is designed to work across many systems, it won't have a nice easy interface for AutoIt to use.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_API_documentation

Actually ...

[Mat]

...

Wow

Then links to get started:

Sample code (not AutoIt): https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Mail_event_system

[Atila]

thanks for the info.....

I did say I was a newbie!

Just looked at the two links you have given me Mat and that is way, way, way over my head!

but thanks anyway.