On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:34:30 -0500, Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
