Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/15/17 23:52: <snip> >> I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right >> now) > > It looks like it's currently in Sid. Has anyone tried it? > > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=thunderbird > I'm using a mixed testing/sid system and have also experienced such sudden deaths of icedove with version 45.6.0. A few hours ago I did the transition to thunderbird. It went really smooth by upgrading the iceweasel*/iceowl* packages (it makes a backup of ~/.icedove and generates a new ~/.thunderbird from that), and after using some unmarkauto/markauto and purge commands there are now only the thunderbird*/lightning* packages on the system. In my lxpanel config I had to replace icedove.desktop by thunderbird.desktop, the firefox Application "mailto" was adapted automatically. All runs smooth so far.
Regards, jvp.