Thunderbird 1.0 and Enigmail
Stephen J. Smoogen
smooge at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 19:22:32 UTC 2004
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:34:30 -0500, Christopher Aillon
<caillon at 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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