9:27 a.m.
Hi,
Any chance to get Enigmail back, either in the Thunderbird 1.0 rpm
or as an additional Fedora (non-extras) package?
Enigmail is said to have a version for Thunderbird 1.0 now. IIRC
it was once removed because of a maintenance nightmare, maybe this
problem disappears after the official release of Thunderbird?
Thanks,
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11:34 a.m.
Jos Vos wrote:
Hi,
Any chance to get Enigmail back, either in the Thunderbird 1.0 rpm
or as an additional Fedora (non-extras) package?
Enigmail is said to have a version for Thunderbird 1.0 now. IIRC
it was once removed because of a maintenance nightmare, maybe this
problem disappears after the official release of Thunderbird?
The problem will always exist as long as they are not maintained by the
same people and thus on different release cycles. The basic nightmare
is: new release by mozilla, enigmail is broken until a new release of
it. Generally, this is fairly quick, but it is unreliable, and when
time becomes important (say for security updates), you can see where
this becomes a problem.
I would very much applaud and offer what assistance I can to an effort
to get Enigmail integrated into Mozilla Thunderbird's source, as I think
that is the ideal solution here.
1:13 p.m.
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:34:30 -0500, Christopher Aillon
<caillon(a)redhat.com> wrote:
The problem will always exist as long as they are not maintained by
the
same people and thus on different release cycles. The basic nightmare
is: new release by mozilla, enigmail is broken until a new release of
it. Generally, this is fairly quick, but it is unreliable, and when
time becomes important (say for security updates), you can see where
this becomes a problem.
I would very much applaud and offer what assistance I can to an effort
to get Enigmail integrated into Mozilla Thunderbird's source, as I think
that is the ideal solution here.
Makes a lot of sense, and I am not familiar with the mozilla code base
so this may be an ignorant question. When I download the thunderbird
build from mozilla, I can then install engimail in it as a user. When
I install the fedora rpm, I cannot install this same xpi file. It
makes sense to me that enigmail cannot be easily shipped in Fedora but
can the rpm be built so as to allow me to install it as a user in
~/.thunderbird/blah.default/extensions ?
Is this already possible, and I am just doing something wrong?
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1:22 p.m.
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:34:30 -0500, Christopher Aillon
<caillon(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any chance to get Enigmail back, either in the Thunderbird 1.0 rpm
> or as an additional Fedora (non-extras) package?
>
> Enigmail is said to have a version for Thunderbird 1.0 now. IIRC
> it was once removed because of a maintenance nightmare, maybe this
> problem disappears after the official release of Thunderbird?
The problem will always exist as long as they are not maintained by the
same people and thus on different release cycles. The basic nightmare
is: new release by mozilla, enigmail is broken until a new release of
it. Generally, this is fairly quick, but it is unreliable, and when
time becomes important (say for security updates), you can see where
this becomes a problem.
I would very much applaud and offer what assistance I can to an effort
to get Enigmail integrated into Mozilla Thunderbird's source, as I think
that is the ideal solution here.
And the fact that the Enigmail or Mozilla people do not advertise it
as an extension for Thunderbird when you look for extensions does not
help any. I think this is an issue where people contact the Enigmail
upstream, find out what the problem is, and see if it can be fixed.
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4:29 p.m.
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:22:32 -0700, Stephen J. Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And the fact that the Enigmail or Mozilla people do not advertise it
as an extension for Thunderbird when you look for extensions does not
help any. I think this is an issue where people contact the Enigmail
upstream, find out what the problem is, and see if it can be fixed.
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Normally enigmail not loading means mozilla was built with
--disable-shared or without --enable-crypto. The fedora build appears
to use both. It will install enigmail but then complains about
enigmime not being available but in new versions of enigmail, enigmime
is built in.
As for them not advertising:
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
"Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla / Netscape and
Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and
encryption features provided by the popular GnuPG software"
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.12
"Hooks to PGP or GnuPG are not included in Thunderbird, but are under
development at Enigmail."
Also at:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/list.php/Thunderbird/privacy
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=thunderbir...
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