Rocket.chat as Thunderbird Add-on - Notifications not working

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1

Hi there,

have written a small Thunderbird Add-on, that connects to our rocket.chat server.
All works fine except notifications (new message and so on). In error console I cann see error message “Error: Missing host permission for the tab”.
Tried to fix this with Thunderbird settings but no success :frowning:

Does somebody tried that also and can give me some hints to fix this?

Thanks
JeiBie

2

Hi!

Is this Add-on open source?

how it connects to Rocket.Chat?

Thanks!

3

If it will be working all as expected, have no problem to make it open source.

But as I said, this is a very simple Add-on. I use Thunderbird built in browser engine (Gecko) to connect to our rocket.chat server:

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
  browser.tabs.create({
    url: browser.runtime.getURL("https://rocket.chat.server")
  });
});

As I said, all works without any issues except notifications. Think some security policies prevent notifications, but don’t know how to deal with this.

4

So this may be something close to an iframe integration.

This may help you:

You will need to listen the notification from the iframe and pass it over to thunderbird. There is a listener for that. This works on regular browsers, but not sure how it may behave inside thunderbird.

5

Hello,
I’ve never done that kind of upgrade. Is it possible to access to a full tuto or make it an Add-on ?
thank you :slight_smile: