5.3. Installing Enigmail

Download the latest version of Enigmail suitable for your mailclient and operating system from http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download
Enigmail comes as a XPI file which is the standard extension for Mozilla plug-ins. The latest Enigmail version is 1.0.0, which can be installed on Thunderbird 3.0 and SeaMonkey 2.0.1 and higher. If you have an older mailclient, you must install a previous version of Enigmail accordingly: for instance, version 0.97a can be installed on SeaMonkey 2.0, and version 0.96.0 can be installed on Thunderbird 2.0 and SeaMonkey 1.1. The Enigmail download page will help you in automatically identify and download the correct version.

Screenshots throughout this handbook mostly show Enigmail 0.96.0 on SeaMonkey 1.1 (Modern theme) running under Windows XP, and a few show Enigmail 0.97a on SeaMonkey 2.0. If your installation is different concerning
the Enigmail version, mailclient, or operating system, there will be minor differences in the GUI but functionalities will be the same.