MailNews

MailNews stands for "Mail and Newsgroups". MailNews is the back end of the messaging parts of SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. It provides a number of functions and capabilities, including:

Communications protocols - SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP
Message Management, including search and filtering
Message Composition
Address Book

The MailNews code lives in the mailnews/ directory of comm-central.

AsyncTestUtils extended framework: The AsyncTestUtils Extended Framework is one mechanism for testing the MailNews component of Thunderbird. See MailNews automated testing for a description of the other testing mechanisms.
Leak And Bloat Tests: This page describes how to perform tests that measure memory leaks and bloat for MailNews and its sub-components.

MailNews automated testing

Automated testing is an increasingly significant and important part of MailNews development. It allows reviewers to quickly pick up regressions in patches and helps developers to think about different cases.

See pages tagged MailNews for additional MailNews-specific information.

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