[qubes-users] Known issue: Qubes extension not yet working with Thunderbird 78

[adw]

Dear Qubes Community,

Many of you are upgrading to Thunderbird 78. The Qubes Thunderbird extension, which allows you to easily open attachments in DisposableVMs, has not yet been updated to work with this new Thunderbird release. You can find the details in this bug report:

Rewrite Thunderbird Qubes extension as a MailExtension

However, while you wait for the extension to be updated, it is important to understand that this extension is purely for convenience. It is not required to do anything. You can do everything that the extension does manually. For example, to view an email attachment in a DisposableVM:

1. Save the attachment in your email VM.
2. Open the file manager in your email VM (e.g., nautilus).
3. Right-click on the attachment and select "View in DisposableVM."

The extension makes this more convenient by automating the process, but it doesn't do anything that you can't do yourself. Nonetheless, we are working on upgrading the extension as soon as reasonably possible.

Further discussion can be found on this forum thread:

Thunderbird / Qubes Attachments

Hello, My question concerns Thunderbird and more specifically the “Qubes Attachments” extension. Contrary to what I was hoping, it doesn’t allow you to “simply” open message attachments in DVMs by right-clicking on the corresponding icon, but you have to save the attachment, in “documents” for example, so that you can, as in other qubes, send it to another qube, read it or edit it in a DVM. Even today, when reading a message for the first time, the usual options are “open”, “save as …”, “deta…

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[lama_gmail.com]

I just got a new extension version 2.0.6 in both my Fedora and Debian VM’s. Doesn´t seem to have fixed the 78 compatibility yet, and I can´t find on github what is new in version 2.0.6.