Using the Thunderbird Email tagging

Your e-mails are an important part of daily information work - with NEPOMUK you can tag them and relate them to projects and topics.

For Mozilla Thunderbird, a plugin is provided. The technical description of the plugin is here: DragonTalk .

Installing

Requirements:

• install NightlyBuilds, read UsingNepomuk to learn how to install Nepomuk
• download DragonTalk Tagging Plugin from the OpenDFKI DragonTalk project
• download Gnowsisplugin from DragonTalk

Add both XPIs to your thunderbird application by opening the Extras-Add ons window and pressing install there, more about installing Thunderbird extensions. Restart Thunderbird.

Configuration

Go to addons and configure the plugin, it should be set to:

• Port: 8181
• Server: http://localhost

Tagging e-mails

First, start Nepomuk and Thunderbird. See if the plugin is active in the add-ons list.

Go to your inbox view in Thunderbird and select an email. In the "preview" of the e-mail, you will notice an "add tag" button in the e-mail header.

Problems and FAQ

It doesn't work

start Thunderbird with the -console option to see some error messages.