365879 - Don't ship movemail.rdf on the Mac

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott MacGregor]

Now that the RDF files can be installed via extensions for the account manager, I'd like to turn off movemail for the mac. if the demand is there we can ship it as an extension. I think the dotmac and gmail rdf files are going to be much more useful for most users.

We'll leave movemail on for unix

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

don't define MOZ_MOVEMAIL in configure.in for the Mac.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 250419 [details] [diff] [review]
the fix

this will probably make a few folks unhappy, but anyone who can set up movemail can drop the rdf file in the right place :-)

Comment 3

[Joshua Root]

Movemail does not work in the official Mac builds even with movemail.rdf installed in the right place. It *does* work if you reverse this patch and make a custom build. IOW, this patch makes it impossible to use movemail on the Mac, rather than simply hiding the functionality. I take it that the latter is what was intended?

Comment 4

[James McLean]

I can also confirm that Movemail does not work on MacOS X, even with the movemail.rdf in "/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/isp"

Was there good reason why this was taken out? Removing this has caused a bit of an inconvenience.

Comment 5

[Buen Genio]

I also need the ability to access my OSX mail spool in Thunderbird, as I'm doing a lot of development involving postfix, and don't want to use an external mail server for testing, especially when offline.

At least please point to the location of a working .rdf file so that those who need it can re-enable this functionality. 

Thanks

Comment 6

[daviewales]

Is there any way to re-enable movemail support on MacOS?

Comment 7

[Joshua Root]

(In reply to daviewales from comment #6)

Is there any way to re-enable movemail support on MacOS?

It was re-enabled in official builds a long time ago. Currently working fine for me in 60.8.0.

Comment 8

[daviewales]

Perhaps I'm missing something then.

I am working on the assumption that the movemail option should appear when I go to 'Tools -> Account Settings', then click 'Account Actions -> Other Account'. However, I only see the option 'Newsgroup Account'.

Comment 9

[Joshua Root]

An old resolved bug is not a good place for this discussion in any case. Better to use the support forum: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/thunderbird