Why is Enigmail incompatible with my Thunderbird or IceDove?

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Why is Enigmail incompatible with my Thunderbird or IceDove?

Postby patrick » 22nd Jan 2008 23:10

Enigmail is only compatible to official releases of Thunderbird and SeaMonkey as provided by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiaries.

These releases are currently built for the following platforms:
  • Windows: x86,32bit
  • Mac OS X: x86, 32bit and PowerPC
  • Linux: x86, 32 bit
Special note for Linux:

The following error message means that you cannot use the official Enigmail packages with Thunderbird as provided by your distribution: "Enigmail" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

In particular, releases shipped with Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu, Redhat, OpenSuSE or Debian) cannot be supported. If you want to use Thunderbird / SeaMonkey / IceDove / IceApe created and installed by your distribution, then you also need an Enigmail release created by the same distribution. A 64-bit version of Enigmail for Linux is provided on the Enigmail downloads page, but there is no guarantee that it will work with a specific distribution.
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