thunderbird-lightning fails on F12

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Nov 17 19:48:52 UTC 2010


Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I tried sending this last week, but never saw it on the list.
>
> Recently F12 updated thunderbird to 3.0.10; however, there was no update
> to thunderbird-lightning so I no longer have access to my calendar.
> When I start thunderbird I get a  message saying lightning 1.0b2pre is
> not compatible with thunderbird 3.0.10.  Is there a plan to provide a
> compatible thunderbird-lightning?  Before I upgrade I want to be able to
> export my existing thunderbird settings including my calendar events.
>
> Also the thunderbird addon to provide bidirectional access to google
> calendar no longer works for the same reason.
>
I suspect this is an end-of-life support issue. Someone updated Tbird and not 
all of the things which depend on it. I would use yum to downgrade to the 
previous version, since it's unlikely to get fixed properly (you could look in 
updates-testing, though).

Better to leave mail working with a bug than secure and unusable!

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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