Enigmail and Thunderbird

[Derick Centeno]

The link I found regarding the Thunderbird extension enigmail was:

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php? 
application=thunderbird&version=1.0
&os=Windows&id=71

(note that the URL is intended to be all on one line)
However, www.enigmail.mozilla.org, just doesn't exist.

You probably intended to mean:
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

As regards to your complaint, it should suffice to remind you that all  
of mozilla's products are for different architectures and one has to  
pay particular attention to what page and what specific item from that  
page one has selected to download.  This is true in any OS of course,  
but especially true in Linux.  One also must attend to, especially  
during a build from source, which sequence of steps are initiated AND  
whether each one completed successfully.

Integrating extensions, and so on into mozilla does not require a  
rebuild from source each and every time something new is added.  At  
most, the application may need to be restarted.  I have not heard or  
experienced that the computer itself would need to be rebooted.  The  
one exception to this is that you have downloaded the extensions or  
whatever in source as well.

IF that is the situation then you must build the application first,  
followed next by the extension to the application.  Again following all  
the appropriate and requisite procedures throughout the process for  
each item.

This strategy would be necessary if the application nor it's extension  
existed yet in the PPC architecture and you didn't want to wait for  
someone else to build it first.  In Linux, there are reasons for  
rushing ahead and going for various apps first and having them run on  
one's system immediately.  However, if this doesn't apply to your  
situation you then could take a much easier road, wait for someone else  
to build it and then download and install that.  Then all you would  
need to do is to restart that application.



On Mar 30, 2005, at 3:51 AM, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have built-from-source Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 a while ago, and now  
> I'm trying to get the current version of Enigmail to work nicely with  
> it.
>
> I can download the .xpi from the Mozilla extensions website, and I can  
> sucessfully install it.  When I rebooted Thunderbird I can see the  
> Enigmail menu, and all of the menus are functional.
>
> But when I try to generate a key I get the message "Error in accessing  
> Enigmail service."  I checked, and I do have gpgme rpm from freshrpm's  
> installed, and the gpg path is correct.
>
> Do I have to rebuild enigmail for the PPC archecture?   
> enigmail.mozilla.org has instructions, but then I have to rebuild  
> Thunderbird too.  Weird, I could have sworn that I just installed the  
> .xpi when I installed it before....
>
> Oh, and when I click to print i get "Failed to initalize Enigmail  
> service" message.
>
> Oh, and if there were any intial setup steps, I would have said "Don't  
> generate a key" since I have mine from OS X, but I can't remember if  
> there was an inital setup dialog or not.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andy Zschetzsche