275266 - profile directory on another disk causes extension problems

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Benedikt Waldvogel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0

My thunderbird profile directory is on *another disk*.
There's a symbolic link from "/home/.../.thunderbird" to disk directory
(/extern/.thunderbird)
I made sure the rights are set sufficient

Starting thunderbird causes an problem with the enigmail extension:
Warning: EnigMime module not available

The EnigMime module is part of the Enigmail Extension since version 0.89.5
but a enigmail developer blames thunderbrid for this problem.

I tried some other extension (QuoteExpand, IP Paste, AboutConfig) the all work fine.

Reproucibility:
If I move ".thunderbird" back to the main disk, enigmail get started properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. move .thunderbird to another disk
2. symlink from /home/<user>/.thunderbird to .thunderbird on the other disk
3. start thunderbird
4. enigmail wont work properly
5. move .thunderbird back to /home/<user>
6. start thunderbird and enigmail will work again

Actual Results:  
enigmail get not started:
Warning: EnigMime module not found

Expected Results:  
-

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Bug 89062 is similar request for mail directry/file.
> Bug 89062 : [RFE] give user the option to make symbolic links to mail archive
files
I could not find bug which includes "symbolic" in summary and refers to symbolic
link of "Profile Directry".

Comment 2

[Benedikt Waldvogel]

what I forgot to mention:

its not a symbolic link problem:
linking .thundebird *on the same disk* (even another partition) causes no problems!

Comment 3

[adepali]

I have a similar problem.
I have a Suse and a Gentoo installation that share the same Thunderbird profile.
At first, I had installed Thunderbird under Suse, so the profile was in
/home/xen/.thunderbird. When I installed it under Gentoo, I mounted Suse's / to
/mnt/suse, and linked /mnt/suse/home/xen/.thunderbird to /home/xen. Everything
works fine, but now I want to remove my Suse installation, so I remove the link
and copy /mnt/suse/home/xen/.thunderbird to /home/xen/. However when I start
Thunderbird, it contains the mails up to the date of creating the symbolic link
- everything more recent to that is gone. Maybe some absolute paths are stored
somewhere?

Comment 4

[Benedikt Waldvogel]

Workaround:
install the enigmail extension globally. (thunderbird -install-global-extension
<enigmail-xyz.xpi>)

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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