It's been another busy week of Hastymail development. Looking back over the week there were 28 individual commits since last Monday. Some are fixes and some are additions and they are scattered throughout the code really. I would also like to welcome a new contributor, Matt Smith, to the project. I have a crazy busy day today so rather than a few more lines of pointless blathering lets go straight to the list of whats new.

    Hot on the heels of the filters plugin we have another new addition to add to our colleciton, the logger plugin. This plugin logs Hastymail activity. It's a pretty simple plugin but it does have quite a few options. Log messages can be saved with one of four different mechanisms: syslog, apache/php, a custom log file, or a database.

    The other day a poster in the Forums asked if it was possible to play a sound file when a new message arrived. I thought this would be a fun plugin to put together and decided to give this a try. I just committed the initial version, called "notices", to SVN. The plugin allows users to play a sound file and/or to pop open a browser window notifying them of a new message. There is still more work to do and I have only tested with Firefox but it's shaping up pretty well. Here are some details:

    Over the years one of the most requested features for Hastymail has been to filter messages from the INBOX to other folders based on a string being present in the message. I have always believed that filtering is best handled on the delivery of messages to a mailbox but there are situations in which server side filtering is just not an option. Since we now have a plugin API I thought this would be both a nice addition as well as a good work out for the plugin system. It took about 3 hours to put together and so far is functional but needs a few more features and some more testing. It will be included in the next RC release (which should be soon). Here is the README file for the plugin from SVN: