Monday, August 31, 2020

thunderbird 78.2.1 & enigmail removal

Hi,

upstream thunderbird is tentatively enabling the openpgp integration in
the upcoming 78.2.1 release, which is the only change compared to
78.2.0:
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.2.0/releasenotes/

there's a package for 78.2.1rc1 on my repo, or one can built it from the
release branch of https://cgit.rhaalovely.net/mozilla-thunderbird/?h=release

From my understanding, once updated enigmail should be updated
internally to a 2.2.2 dummy version (cf
https://addons.thunderbird.net/fr/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/versions/)
which should handle migration of settings. Our port is at 2.1.2, but
another version can be installed in the profile.

users of enigmail are *strongly* advised to test 78.2.1rc1, of course
making a backup of your profile first or working on a clean profile.

pending no bad feedback, i plan to upgrade mail/mozilla-thunderbird to
78.2.1 soonish to make sure more people test this version. I dont use
enigmail at all, but i've been using 78 and previous betas daily without
issues.

Landry

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