[Enigmail] Running enigmail on winXP and opensuse

[John Clizbe]

Florian Schubert wrote:
> Hallo LeRoy and Robert J. Hansen,
> 
> how it shines, the discus is pointing in a wrong direction. I wrote in
> my first letter, I´m surching for gpg.exe on a linux os. I`m sorry, I
> only meant surching for gpg on it. WinXp .exe surching on linux can be a
> long journey :)
> My problem is, thunderbird profile is shared between WinXP and OpenSuSe.
> That meen the profiles.ini of winXP and suse point in the same file on a
> fat32 partition.This is no problem and thunderbird is running fine.
> 
> The problem is now, that the extensions are in the same file and the
> options of the extensions are configured on one of both operating
> systems. In engimail, I have to show (option dialogue box) where gpg is,
> or it is automatically find.
> On winxp this is no problem and enigmail is running without any problem.
> Under suse the option dialogue box of enigmail tells a mistake, can`t find
> gpg. When I`m telling enigmail where it is, it is failing.
> 
> Now, I think the problem is sharing the profile with the installed
> extension of enigmail. Probable the extension is only fully provided by
> winxp and not through suse.
> The question is,can I share the extension but have to configure two
> separate files for enigmail extension and when how to?

Ok, I understand your problem better now.

Oh WinXP, make sure that the directory containing gpg.exe
(C:\Programme\Gnu\GnuPG for German localized systems) is part of the PATH
environment variable. Open a command window, (Run --> cmd.exe), the command

    gpg --version

should return several lines of info, version, home directory, algorithms
supported. If you get an error that it can't find gpg, then you'll need to add
it's location to PATH. On a Windows NT/2000/XP system, open Settings →
Control Panel → System → Advanced → Environment Variables and edit the  PATH
variable under System variables. In the edit field, add  ;C:\Programme\GNU\GnuPG
 to the end of PATH and then click OK three times.

On the SuSE side, the command to locate gpg is

    which gpg

it should return something like /usr/bin/gpg. If not, verify that GnuPG 1.4.? is
installed.

Now in Thunderbird, Open Enigmail's preference panel and clear the the check box
that overrides Enigmail's automatic location finding results.

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