I have Mozilla provided Thunderbird and Enigmail as a plugin on Debian - could not get Debian's Iceweasel to work properly. Both of these are outside the distro's packaging. It's this machine I'm emailing from right now and works beautifully. I have tried the CentOS provided Thunderbird (CentOS does not provide Enigmail) with the xpi file and another repo install (remi?) of Thunderbird and Enigmail. These various combinations have not worked thus far and that is likely due to whatever is causing or not causing gpg-agent to fire up. I have had other combinations "just work", like I've currently reverted to on that CentOS box Thunderbird 10.x and Enigmail 1.4 - again Thunderbird is distro provided and Enigmail is the xpi provided by Enigmail team.
The server provides different packages than normally found on a desktop install, but many of the same as well including the desktop environments and is used daily in my office so the longer life cycle of the RHES based system is better for us. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was a stripped down machine only running a few services as I would normally do for a machine not purposed this way. Server in this case just means I can't go mucking with it during business hours. Patrick On 03/14/13 09:41, David wrote: > > > Excuse me. An Linux non-expert observation? > > I am far from a Linux expert. I have dabbled with it over the years. > However I have never tried to run an email client on a server install. > > I have had, and currently do have, Thunderbird with Enigmail working > on Fedora 18, Fedora Rawhide, Mageia 2, and Mageia Cauldron. > > But. I have found that for these to work I have had to use the > Thunderbird package provided by the distribution as well as the > Enigmail package also provided by the distribution. They 'change > thins' and 'move things'. > > I have never had any reliable success using the Thunderbird package > from Mozilla with the Enigmail package provided by Patrick and the > Enigmail team. > > And for these distribution packages to work, in this way, did not take > any magic. No tweaks. No editing. Nothing. Just install them and, from > the box, they work. > > >
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