Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/25/05 02:18 CST: > Moving on to Thunderbird, I was expecting the worst, and of course, > it was just as I expected. I have had issues with TBird for quite a > few versions now. I'll summarize what I know (which ain't much):
Playing around I discovered many of the issues I'm seeing are easy to fix. Googling showed me that the extensions issue in T-Bird is real. Many folks are recommending to wait until T-Bird-1.1 before attempting to reliably install global extensions. > 1. If you build the installer method, then you get the > a) Movemail > b) RSS News & Blogs > account setup options. I don't know what these are used for, but I > know folks have asked about the RSS account stuff. These two options > do *not* appear if you build using the book method and 'make install'. Sorry if I appear stupid about this stuff and spewing stuff everyone probably already knows. Oh well. Anyway, Movemail accounts are cool. Used to move any local spooled mail (/var/mail type stuff) into T-Bird. RSS/Blog is just what I thought it was. Access to those type subscriptions. Easy to make these active in the current T-Bird build method. This one is a done deal. Just have to update the book. > 2. Enigmail sucks. Using the book method and 'make install' when you > run Thunderbird for the first time you get a shitty message about > "All existing extensions will be disabled" and then Enigmail is not > available. You have to manually edit the > ~/.thunderbird/*.default/chrome/chrome.rdf file and remove the lines > which disable Enigmail. It did *not* used to be like this. It used > to just work. Yes, it did. Some research showed the changes were put in after the 0.8 release. Now when the nsExtensionManager javascript is run when you run T-Bird for the first time (not the root user first time thing, but individual users after installation has been completed), it disables Enigmail because it thinks it is a pre-0.8 extension that doesn't conform to the new installation method. Deleting a couple of lines in your ~/.thunderbird/*.default/chrome/chrome.rdf file makes Enigmail come alive and best as I can tell, work properly. However, I'm not sure the book should recommend to do this. It may have actually been disabled because the Moz devs *wanted* it disabled. I'm leaning to just doing a 'make xpi' to create an Enigmail extension and install that in the /usr/lib/Thunderbird hierarchy somewhere. Then advise folks to just install the Enigmail extension into their profile if they want it. It's a pain in the ass for a multi-user system, but just a one-time deal if the system is just someone's primary desktop. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 14:42:00 up 145 days, 14:15, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.14 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
