Thanks to everyone on this thread who helped us find a working solution and to Carsten especially for explaining everything in detail and taking the trouble to provide several solutions and rebuilding the package for Jessie. That was of great help to us!
In the end we opted for using the Mozilla add-on since this seems to be the solution less likely to break with future updates, if I understood everything here correctly. On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 at 19:05:17 +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > if seen you have open a similar bug report against enigmail. Please > mention such similar bug reports also in the affecting package(s). I'll keep that in mind in future, thanks for letting me know. Cheers, Shevek
