Get Selected Message Data In Thunderbird Extension

I need to get some e-mail message data in my Thunderbird extension. I found this example on MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIMsgMessageSer

Solution 1:

This documentation looks fairly outdated. I would suggest:

• using gFolderDisplay.selectedMessage (try typing top.opener.gFolderDisplay.selectedMessage in the Error Console),
• reading some recent code that uses Services and MailServices so as to simplify your code.

That being said, I don't know what you're trying to achieve but:

• you'd certainly be better off using a wrapper such as MsgHdrToMimeMessage (self-reference: http://blog.xulforum.org/index.php?post/2011/01/03/An-overview-of-Thunderbird-Conversations)
• if you absolutely, absolutely need to get the raw contents of the message, http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/db/gloda/modules/mimemsg.js#223 has an example on how to do that (it's the implementation of the said MsgHdrToMimeMessage; by simplifying it, you should be able to get directly the raw data of the message).

Good luck with that, once you get a working sample, please add it to the MDN wiki!

Cheers,

jonathan