i'm not 100% sure, if Portable Thunderbird would work under Wine or not, but worth a shot. Many windows Portable apps, does run using Wine. And what about loading a small custom Windows XP inside a VirtualBox based VM on Linux, then run Windows apps ?
-- Bry8Star. Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > antispa...@sent.at: >> I see TorBirdy is readily available. But that might mean a system wide >> instance of Thunderbird. For Windows the solution is just a clean >> version of Thunderbird provided by PortableApps.com and TorBirdy, maybe >> downloaded via Tor/TBB. What about Linux? I could not find the >> equivalent PortableApps.Linux. > > We'd love to provide this and in fact, we'd be able to provide a safer > Thunderbird for Tor usage as our patches would be included. The downside > is that Tor usage is not the only thing that matters - updates of all > kinds will need to be tracked and kept in line with upstream. > > It is a lot of effort to make TBB and to make a Thunderbird version, > keeping it updated and so on - it would require a lot of thinking on our > part. I think without Thandy, I fear that it would be a nightmare. > > Perhaps there is some way to adapt Mozilla's secure updating system to > give users an upgrade path? I'm not sure. I welcome any thoughts on the > subject... > > Ultimately, we like the idea - so hopefully we can find a way to do it > without drowning ourselves in work on a fork of Thunderbird that isn't > required. Ideally, we'd like upstream to merge everything - heck, even > TorBirdy, and make it a simple option... :) > > All the best, > Jacob > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk