Tag Archive for 'spam-firewall'

Barracuda Spamfirewall plugin for Thunderbird update

As mentioned, Barracuda Networks seems to have no interest to support their own Barracuda Spamfirewall plugin for Thunderbird. The problem is, that it doesn’t work since Thunderbird Version 2.0.0.4. Here a hack from the user forum to make the plugin work with Thunderbird 2.0.0.4.
If you unzip the .xpi file (it’s really a zip file, just with an xpi extension), and edit the “install.rdf” XML file, you can update the maxVersion value to a number the same as or greater (for example from 2.0 to 2.2) than the version of Thunderbird you’re using, and then re-zip the files into a new zip file with a name ending in “.xpi”. Reinstall in Thunderbird and everything is fine.

Thunderbird and Barracuda Spamfirewall plugin

A very nice feature offered by Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall is the Thunderbird plugin to classify mails as spam within Thunderbird. But after upgrading Thunderbird to 2.0.0.4, the plugin stops working. Barracuda Networks Support answer to this : Unfortunately we do not have a new version of the Thunderbird plugin and we currently do not have an ETA on when a new plugin will be available. I apologize for this inconvenience.

barracuda spamfirewall thunderbird plugin

One solution might be to build as custom Thunderbird filter, mentioned here.