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Thank you for marking the package as out-of-date. But you not need.

I am working with the founder of betterbird and receive the information about the new version immediately. And I am not 24 hours in front of my PC. Sometimes I have a private life and need to sleep. But you can be sure, I am doing my best to update as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Posi81

Oh, sorry, I've restored the upstream betterbird-115.15.0-bb32.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 file.

The package doesn't build as the archive doesn't exist anymore. Apparently there was some change upstream to the build so _build needs to be changed to bb32-build2 and the sha256sum adjusted.

Please read the comment on www.betterbird.eu:

Note that Thunderbird 128 and hence Betterbird 128 is shipping with a broken backend causing IMAP folder corruption under some circumstances. Some Thunderbird users report that they need to repair they IMAP mailboxes multiple times per week. Hence version 128 SHOULD NOT BE USED IN PRODUCTION!!

For details please follow this bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1890230). Note that since the Thunderbird folks forced version 128.0.1 onto unsuspecting users, they are getting a high volume of reports that people's e-mail can't be displayed any more.

We estimate that version 128.3.0 may be safe to use.

BTW, in Firefox' ESR, 115.15.0 is replaced by 128.3.0 in October, so there is no rush.

I have submitted a patch to the maintainer, but anyone looking for an up to date PKGBUILD can use the following patch:

From eebbbd65c99d5fb50a8256e3245fc86dfaaf85ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wesley Bryie <wes@wesbryie.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:45:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] update: v115.13.0-bb30

---
 .SRCINFO | 8 ++++----
 PKGBUILD | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index fff814c..63c26e4 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgbase = betterbird-bin
    pkgdesc = EN-US // Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will.
-   pkgver = 115.12.0
+   pkgver = 115.13.0
    pkgrel = 1
    url = https://www.betterbird.eu/index.html
    arch = x86_64
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ pkgbase = betterbird-bin
    depends = dbus-glib
    depends = hunspell
    optdepends = hunspell-en_US
-   provides = betterbird=115.12.0
-   source = https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/betterbird-115.12.0-bb29.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
+   provides = betterbird=115.13.0
+   source = https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/betterbird-115.13.0-bb30.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
    source = betterbird.desktop
    source = vendor-prefs.js
-   sha256sums = 9f0ecb1e57cf2a5c59ff6000fe9f4c715f092de2c030a15abf2ba6724615a684
+   sha256sums = 90b99c0112fd7ace5a670cff638fdaf6f838e7b05d7549bb386b83e86ba49759
    sha256sums = b664d5453512ba1c8a58699d106fb1248991dbae0ee44464484be0886278945b
    sha256sums = b11745416d2b2f8bac1ccd3dcb99411c7239b067adf9eb973903c448f8747d09

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 728336e..94707e9 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Maintainer: Posi<posi1981@gmail.com>
 pkgname=betterbird-bin
 _pkgname=betterbird
-pkgver=115.12.0
-_build=bb29
+pkgver=115.13.0
+_build=bb30
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="EN-US // Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will."
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -47,6 +47,6 @@ package() {
             "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/$_pkgname.png
     done
 }
-sha256sums=('9f0ecb1e57cf2a5c59ff6000fe9f4c715f092de2c030a15abf2ba6724615a684'
+sha256sums=('90b99c0112fd7ace5a670cff638fdaf6f838e7b05d7549bb386b83e86ba49759'
             'b664d5453512ba1c8a58699d106fb1248991dbae0ee44464484be0886278945b'
             'b11745416d2b2f8bac1ccd3dcb99411c7239b067adf9eb973903c448f8747d09')
-- 
2.45.2

Wow, we just had a user complaint about this via support e-mail. That user was using Gnome. To our knowledge, there were no corresponding changes in BB to explain this behaviour. The changes to enable global menu already shipped in 115.11.0-bb28, so they don't explain it.

What happens if you go back to 115.11.0-bb28? Still broken?

@goliat88 I'm using the flatpak version and I'm also experiencing the same problem.

Does anybody facing a problem with poping new window of betterbird not on the top of screen?

Hi, thanks for providing the AUR package for betterbird. Herewith a patch to make betterbird use the system dictionaries (via hunspell) so that the user does not have to download dictionaries themselves. This works just as in the thunderbird Arch package.

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 192ce4c..3952ede 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -6,10 +6,14 @@ pkgbase = betterbird-bin
        arch = x86_64
        license = MPL2
        depends = dbus-glib
+       depends = hunspell
+       optdepends = hunspell-en_US
        provides = betterbird=115.7.0
        source = https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/betterbird-115.7.0-bb23.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
        source = betterbird.desktop
+       source = vendor-prefs.js
        sha256sums = d7e6c4bbebc99619ea2a1b8448bab7393e9ee787de9375a0cdf59c4c0745df6f
        sha256sums = b664d5453512ba1c8a58699d106fb1248991dbae0ee44464484be0886278945b
+       sha256sums = 3bc15133a2807f31ea5c80d959bf3426ef3394ceb698c5544f2ce44e82a1b51e

 pkgname = betterbird-bin
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 2d39769..30d2628 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ pkgdesc="EN-US // Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thu
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://www.betterbird.eu/index.html"
 license=('MPL2')
-depends=('dbus-glib')
+depends=('dbus-glib' 'hunspell')
+optdepends=('hunspell-en_US')
 provides=("betterbird=${pkgver}")
 conflicts=()
 source=(
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ source=(
 #    "https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}-${_build}-build2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"
     "https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}-${_build}.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"
     "betterbird.desktop"
+    "vendor-prefs.js"
 )

 package() {
@@ -26,7 +28,9 @@ package() {

     cp -r "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
     install -m644 "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
+    install -m644 "${srcdir}/vendor-prefs.js" -t "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/defaults/pref"
     ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/betterbird "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$_pkgname
+    ln -s /usr/share/hunspell "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/dictionaries"

     echo     "

@@ -43,4 +47,5 @@ package() {
     done
 }
 sha256sums=('d7e6c4bbebc99619ea2a1b8448bab7393e9ee787de9375a0cdf59c4c0745df6f'
-            'b664d5453512ba1c8a58699d106fb1248991dbae0ee44464484be0886278945b')
+            'b664d5453512ba1c8a58699d106fb1248991dbae0ee44464484be0886278945b'
+            '3bc15133a2807f31ea5c80d959bf3426ef3394ceb698c5544f2ce44e82a1b51e')

This is the content of the additional vendor-prefs.js file:

// Use system-provided dictionaries
pref("spellchecker.dictionary_path", "/usr/share/hunspell");

@Betterbird thank you. I agree it's better to handle this upstream at Betterbird. I have posted related issues on GitHub.

https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/commit/a94572872158e9a68b805abfd17e260713a81cc2

I'll talk to the AUR maintainer so that he can use the same file. The only difference is one line: AUR: Icon=betterbird FlatPak: Icon=eu.betterbird.Betterbird