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• What's Mnenhy?
• Features
• Plans
• Contact

What's Mnenhy?

The primary goal of the Mnenhy project is to make some enhancements to SeaMonkey/Mozilla MailNews, since there're still plenty of comfort functions missing if compared to Netscape 4.x and other mail and news clients. By now, it also provides useful features for Mozilla Thunderbird and even Mozilla Firefox!

The project name Mnenhy is an acronym based upon MailNews-Enhancements. The y has been added just for fun. :-)
And, lo!, it's pronounced like mn+any...

Features

(Please read the documentation for more details!)

• Custom Headers [SeaMonkey, Mozilla and Thunderbird]
  Mnenhy allows to alter the set of header lines shown of an e-mail or usenet posting and their respective method of display. Yeah, that makes the references clickable again! :-)
  Multiple lists can be defined in the Mnenhy preferences panel and then be switched via the View → Headers menu.
  This module is also responsible for showing X-Faces.
• Folder Storage [SeaMonkey, Mozilla and Thunderbird]
  Mnenhy provides a mechanism to store the thread pane column layout and preferences dependent upon the currently selected folder. For example, you can hide the junk state in the newsgroup de.test, but show it in your Inbox or activate HTML for RSS feeds only.
• Text Codecs [SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox]
  Mnenhy adds two new context menu items for encoding/decoding text to the mail editor, the mail display, the browser, the source view and Chatzilla. Available codecs are currently ROT-13, Base64, UUEncode/UUDecode, encodeURI/decodeURI and similar, Unicode/number representation, Kenny-Speak, 1337-Speak, Morse, Reverse, toUpperCase, toLowerCase and the evaluation of selections.
• MailNews Sidebar [SeaMonkey and Mozilla only]
  Mnenhy brings back the sidebar to MailNews! Of course, the panel preferences are independent from those of the browser sidebar.
• Chrome Manager (Tools → Chrome Manager) [SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox]
  Mnenhy allows to manipulate the location and the activation and jar state of registered chrome packages: packages can be moved between profile and application directory, packages can be temporarily disabled or removed completely, jar files can be extracted to local directories and used there. This makes it very easy to test new hacks and modifications or new addons that have no uninstaller.
  This feature is nothing for the faint-hearted: you may destroy your Mozilla installation if you don't know what you're doing! Please do read the documentation!
• Registry Viewer (Tools → Registry Viewer) [SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox]
  Mozilla and its derivates use a special database format inherited from older Netscape versions, e.g. for their version registry mozver.dat or the profile registry registry.dat. The Registry Viewer provides a nice, handy tree view of the contents of these files.
• Junk Filter Tools [SeaMonkey, Mozilla and Thunderbird]
  
  • Junk Filter Statistics (Tools → Junk Filter Statistics)
    Mnenhy can compute a Junk Filter Statistics based upon your training.dat. This may freeze Mozilla for some time, especially on slow machines, but you can alter the threshold of ignorable words in the Mnenhy preferences panel.
  • Unknown Junk State Icon
    Mnenhy resurrects the 'unknown' state icon for junk filtered mail.

Plans

The Chrome Manager still needs some usability improvements, e.g. multiple selections or editing of property values. The Registry Viewer should be able to manipulate the registry files (but don't wait for that ;-)).

Further topics on my wishlist include

• sortable newsgroup list
• dropdown boxes or autocompletion for Newsgroup: header (and others)

Contact

Please report any bugs, questions, corrections or suggestions to either the newsgroup public.mozdev.mnenhy (mozdev/maduser) or email me directly.

And if you like Mnenhy, please send me a postcard: :-)
Karsten Düsterloh — Hohe Egge Oberweg 6 — D-45549 Sprockhövel (Germany)