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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2018 09:03:33 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, gecko@freebsd.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Lightning removed from ThunderBird?
Message-ID:  <f652124b-e795-08b8-115c-0620a0008968@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7aa3ec9f-7f75-c61f-d764-4a47774c469c@netfence.it>
References:  <7aa3ec9f-7f75-c61f-d764-4a47774c469c@netfence.it>

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Andrea Venturoli wrote on 2018/05/23 07:07:
> Hello.
> 
> As an heavy user of ThunderBird + Ligthning I was a bit worried when I 
> saw the following commit message this morning:
> 
>> mail/thunderbird: drop LIGHTNING as it's unusable after r470672
> 
> I understand this was later backed out, but I'd like to ask some questions.
> 
> 
> Is Lightning going away or is this temporary?
> In the former case, are there any suggested replacements?
> Or can Lightning be installed independently of the port?
> 
> Any pointer to what's going on here more generally?
> 
> Has this anything to do with the (imminent?) switch to version 60?
> 
> 
> Sorry to bother, but I just would like to avoid being caught by surprise 
> if/when Lightning will suddenly stop working one morning...

Just "me too" - I am using Seamonkey, currently in version 2.49.1 where 
Lightning lo longer works even if I have LIGHTNING=on selected in 
options. I will try 2.49.3 soon but I am worrying about future of the 
Lightning.
Are there any compatible replacement usable on FreeBSD desktop?

Miroslav Lachman





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