Thunderbird (missing enigmail)

[Warren Togami]

Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> Hi, we have been using enigmail with the thunderbird for some of our
> work.. I was wondering why it had been removed from the latest
> thunderbird and would it be put back at some point?
> 

blizzard and caillon objected rightly to the inclusion of enigmail 
within our package, because it is extremely difficult to maintain as it 
is not an upstream feature.  Too often with new versions it takes weeks 
to get enigmail working again in packaged form.  The risk is just too great.

For the short term, we should be able to package it separately in 
Extras, but the only maintainable long term solution is to convince 
upstream thunderbird to accept it.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com