[Enigmail] Running enigmail on winXP and opensuse

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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John Clizbe wrote:
> Florian Schubert wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I`m using enigmail with thunderbird on winXP and opensuse. Profile
>> running on fat32 partition without any problems.
>> Only enigmail 0.95.7 extension have some problem. Under winXP the way to
>> gnupg, gpg.exe, is found automatically by the system. And enigmail is
>> running fine. :)
>> But naturally, I think, the aim of gpg.exe of winXP can not be the same
>> for opensuse and so enigmail really do not run on suse, on my suse.
>>
>> Can anyone help or tell that he/she has the same mistake?
> 
> While everyone else is being helpful trying to help you sort out the path to the
> gpg executable, the simple answer is that you can't share profile directories
> between operating systems.
>
> That is not to say that you can not share files and even full directories within
> a profile. I've done it several times with the suite (Seamonkey and Mozilla
> prior) so I know how much work it is. Best to only share the mail, news and imap
> folders.


I don't quite agree with this. These days (not speaking of former
Mozilla 1.x times, and not speaking of SeaMonkey before 2.0) you can
easily share profiles on Windows and Linux, with the following restrictions:

* you have to stick to Thunderbird from Mozilla.com; using Thunderbird
as provided by OpenSuSE won't work

* the GnuPG executable (gpg.exe on Windows, gpg on Linux) must be found
automatically by Enigmail, i.e. the path to GnuPG must remain empty. In
order to achieve this, make sure that the directory holding gpg/gpg.exe
is in the PATH variable.

- -Patrick
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