[Package Info] Enigmail for Debian Thunderbird and Mozilla Mailnews

Wednesday, April 6. 2005

Posted by asac (Alexander Sack) in Debian OS, Debian Thunderbird at 19:07 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

[Package Info] Enigmail for Debian Thunderbird and Mozilla Mailnews

Enigmail for Debian

QUOTE - From the Debian Package Description:

Enigmail is an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows users to access the features provided by the popular GnuPG software from within Thunderbird and Mozilla Mailnews.
Enigmail is capable of signing, authenticating, encrypting and decrypting email. Additionally, it supports both the inline PGP format, as well as the PGP/MIME format as described in RFC 3156.

General

Debian provides packages for both, mozilla-thunderbird and mozilla-mailnews. The packages you need to install are: mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail (for the former) mozilla-enigmail (for the latter).

Please keep in mind that extension packaged the debian way will be installed as global extensions and thus all users will get such extensions.

Install using APT

Add the current APT respository lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list and use

CODE:

$ apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
or
$ apt-get install mozilla-enigmail

to install enigmail for thunderbird or mozilla-mailnews. After restarting either thunderbird or mozilla the enigmail extension should be properly installed. Have fun!

Currently Packaged Locales

Up to date, there is only the german localization packaged as a debian package. The package is not yet released to the official debian archive because of the tightened upload policies currently encouraged, because sarge hopefully being released soon. To install all locale packages needed you can use:

CODE:

$ apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-locale-de
$ apt-get install enigmail-thunderbird-locale-de

Afterwards, you need to set the environment variable LANG, either by selecting it as your
default locale by using

CODE:

dpkg-reconfigure locales # if locales is not installed use apt-get install locales

to select de_DE as your default locale or you can set the LANG environment manually, if you didn’t choose german as your default locale.

CODE:

$ export LANG=de_DE # or de_DE.UTF-8 or whatever you want
$ mozilla-thunderbird # start thunderbird in german

Note: you have to select the de_DE locale in anyway when configuring the locales package as outlined above. If your system looks completely german this might be a good indicator that your system locale is already set properly. Nevertheless, KDE need to be aware, that they might run in situations where KDE just looks german, while the system is still english or whatever. So if you don’t get thunderbird up in german, remember to use the locale command to check if your current locale is really the one you expect. A good setting might look like this:

CODE:

alex@hanson:alex> locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=”de_DE.UTF-8”

or like this:

CODE:

alex@hanson:alex> locale
LANG=de_DE
LC_CTYPE=”de_DE”

Questions or Comments?

Feel free to ask and critize and provide patches for this text. Use the comment mechanism in this blog utility. I will consider all improvements for the next version of this document. Please consider consulting the enigmail developers site first before posting questions about some feature. Thanks!

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I’m new to linux, how do I set the Thunderbird mail client so i can get my my from Linuxmail.org,MSN.com, ect. I don’t know how to find my POP3 and IMAP settings to enter in the wizard.

#1 Reic Hancock (Homepage) on 2005-10-10 18:58 (Reply)

Use google and search for pop3 msn settings …. or, you know. If you ever managed to setup outlook for pop3/imap, the settings should be pretty similar.

#1.1 asac (Homepage) on 2005-10-10 19:10 (Reply)

Today I upgraded to Icedove 2.0 and Enigmail 0.95.

After the upgrade I could not use Enigmail in Icedove, seemed like Icedove referred to the old Enigmail version.

This did solve it for me:

apt-get remove—purge enigmail

apt-get install enigmail

#2 tux821 on 2007-06-15 17:19 (Reply)

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