Enigmail and Thunderbird

[Andrew Zschetzsche]

I'm sorry Derick, but your reply did nothing but add frustration to the 
problem.

I'm well aware about the archecture and platorm requirement and/or 
restriction.  Do you think I built Thunderbird 1.0 from source (and that 
was before it showed up in YDL-Extras testing) for fun?  If I was on 
x86, certainly I would have used the installer or an RPM.

An I also understand that there are mozilla/firefox/thunderbird 
extensions for different platforms.  I downloaded the _Linux_ Enigmail 
extension.  Obviously it worked somewhat, as I get the menu in the menu 
bar(s) and the icon(s) in the buttons bar.

My question is this:  Do you have to rebuild the Enigmail extension for 
the PPC, or can you download and install it?  Everything working but the 
Enigmail service does make sense in a way, because of the cross-platform 
GUI mozilla uses.


Derick Centeno wrote:

> 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
>
>
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