Correct Identity is a beautiful addon for Mozilla Thunderbird, the major problem is that Dennis Verspuij has not been having time or desire to keep it up to date and the goody became incompatible with the email client starting version 1.5.
To extend addon’s life a bit it is possible to adjust compatibility information so that the same addon, as it is, could be recognized by Thunderbird version 1.5.
To do this, it is required to locate addon’s RDF file, I have it in:
$(SystemDrive):\Documents and Settings\$(UserName)\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\$(ProfileName)\extensions\{47ef7cc0-2201-11da-8cd6-0800200c9a66}\install.rdf
This is a text file in XML format, openable by text editor, it contains text:
< RDF:Description RDF:about="rdf:#$dZX88"
em:id=”{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}”
em:minVersion=”1.0″
em:maxVersion=”1.4″ / >
which needs to e replaced with, for example:
< RDF:Description RDF:about="rdf:#$dZX88"
em:id=”{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}”
em:minVersion=”1.0″
em:original-maxVersion=”1.4″
em:maxVersion=”1.5″ / >
and after Thunderbird 1.5 restart it will recognize and start the addon. It seems the addon works with Thunderbird 1.5, no problems so far.