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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:09:08 -0600
From:      "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com>
To:        John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mail/thunderbird builds with enigmail even though not selected in options
Message-ID:  <5126E154.8070506@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5126E0D5.6090603@riverwillow.com.au>
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On 02/21/13 21:07, John Marshall wrote:
> On 22/02/2013 13:33, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:
>> On 02/21/13 19:47, John Marshall wrote:
>>> On 22/02/2013 12:18, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:
>>>> Is anyone else having an issue with enigmail-1.4.6 (re)building with
>>>> mail/thunderbird even though it's not selected? I"ve had it not selected
>>>> for two updates now and it's still listed in add-ons. I'm wanting to try
>>>> the one from addons.mozilla.org but I can't enable it with 1.4.6
>>>> installed concurrently.
>>>
>>> See /usr/ports/UPDATING for 20121010.
>>>
>>> Enigmail is now (optionally) integrated with Thunderbird. You need to
>>> delete the old Enigmail port before building Thunderbird.
>>>
>> I am aware of this, but the enigmail in ports causes current Thunderbird
>> to crash when you try to do anything useful with it (unless enigmail in
>> ports has been updated to 1.5.0). I don't want the enigmail in ports.
>> Period.
>
> So you haven't disabled and deleted your old Add-on(s)?

You cannot delete the compiled-in-from-ports enigmail in that manner, 
I've tried, frequently.

> - Disable and delete your ancient Enigmail Add-on from Tools-->Add-ons
> - pkg_delete any existing Enigmail package you have installed
> - Install the current Thunderbird port
>    - without the Enigmail option if you don't want Enigmail; or
>    - with the Enigmail option if you want the integrated Enigmail 1.5.1
>

Ports enigmail has been updated? My complaint with the former ports 
enigmail was it kept crashing Thunderbird.

-- 
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Joseph A Nagy Jr
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