Help me to shift from system enigmail to official enigmail due to lack of maintainer

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Hi. After upgrade to thunderbird version 68.1.1, enigmail from Fedora repositories became incompatible with thunderbird.

The problem is that currently no maintainer for Fedora enigmail package & no upgrade for it & it is currently on version 2.0.8-4 which is incompatible with new thunderbird.

Please see the following:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1752435

Now, I like to shift from Fedora enigmail (package in Fedora repositories which currently has no maintainer) to enigmail from add-on page directly. It will done as following:

  1. remove Fedora enigmail:
    sudo dnf remove thunderbird-enigmail
  2. restart PC
  3. install enigmail from add-on page of thunderbird directly.

But the problem is that: I did not took backaup for my PGP with private part. I’m even did not took revocation certificate to revoke my key. Is it safe to remove Fedora enigmail & replace it by enigmail from add-on package ?

  1. Does this will make new enigmail from add-on page automatically recognize my open PGP key ?

  2. how can I export my Fedora enigmail profile to new enigmail from add-on page, so that I can reuse my enigmail setting that I’m already set if from before when I was Fedora enigmail ? Where is the location of such profile ?

Any help will be appreciated.

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Your keys should be stored in ~/.gnupg. You can use gpg --list-secret-keys to confirm and take a backup of that entire directory to be sure.

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Thank you very much. But I’m asking about where can I find the profile of enigmail (not gnupg)! Where is the location where can I find my Fedora enigmail which currently not work ? I need to know this location so that I can copy it’s contents (the profile of it’s setting that I set), to the new enigmail from add-on page.

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Search files by name:

find ~ -iname "*enig*"

Search recently modified files:

find ~ -mmin -5
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enigmail addon in addons.

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@jpbn
Dear I clicked “Ctrl+H” to show hidden folders & then navigate to:
./thunderbird
but I did not see addon inside it ! I saw 2 files & a folder. I opened the folder & also did not see addon ! I saw, among many other things, the following:

  • a file called “enigmail.sqlite”
  • a file called “addons.json”
  • an archive called “addonStartup.json.lz4”
    I do not know if any of these are related ?

Moreover, now I’m facing other problem: I tried to remove old .RPM enigmail package by command line, but I received the following error for which I aborted the process:

sudo dnf remove thunderbird-enigmail
Modular dependency problem:

Problem: conflicting requests

  • nothing provides module(platform:f31) needed by module gimp:2.10:3120190904121229:f636be4b-0.x86_64
    Dependencies resolved.
    ===================================================================
    Package Architecture Version Repository Size
    ===================================================================
    Removing:
    thunderbird-enigmail noarch 2.0.8-3.fc30 @fedora 8.6 M

Transaction Summary

===================================================================
Remove 1 Package

Freed space: 8.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Operation aborted.

What is this ??!!!
Any help is much appreciated !

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For removing addon in Thunderbird go to preferences, addons and delete the addon.