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> Subject: [Enigmail] [Ann] Dropped Support for SeaMonkey > From: Patrick Brunschwig <patr...@enigmail.net> > Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 19:07:19 +0100 > To: Enigmail user discussion list <enigmail-us...@enigmail.net> > Newsgroups: gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general > > I have decided to stop supporting SeaMonkey with Enigmail. When Enigmail > was created, it was an add-on for the Mozilla Suite (which was later > renamed to SeaMonkey). I have therefore always continued supporting it, > and didn't take this decision lightly. However, I think the time has > come to say good-bye to SeaMonkey. > > Here are my reasons: > > * The number of SeaMonkey users has significantly shrunk over the last > years. The same is true for Enigmail-users with SeaMonkey. We remain > at only around 850 users (which is less than 0.5% of all users of > Enigmail). > > * SeaMonkey is close, but not identical to Thunderbird. There are a > number of SeaMonkey-specific defects and workarounds in Enigmail. I > don't think that the remaining number of users justifies that I > continue to invest time into it. > > * The official "stable" version of SeaMonkey has not received any > updates since SeaMonkey July 27, 2018 (which is comparable to Firefox > 52). Since then there have been about 7 updates to Firefox/ > Thunderbird with quite a number of security-related fixes. I therefore > consider SeaMonkey no longer safe. > > > Good-Bye SeaMonkey, you have been a good friend. > > -Patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > enigmail-us...@enigmail.net > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
