Thunderbird 1.0 and Enigmail

[Stephen J. Smoogen]

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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Stephen J Smoogen.
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