[Enigmail] Running enigmail on winXP and opensuse

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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John Clizbe wrote:
> 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.

There's one more thing that you *must* do, or you'll fail for sure:
you'll have to download the official release of Thunderbird from
Mozilla.com and the official multi-platform Enigmail XPI that we
provide; you cannot use Thunderbird & Enigmail as provided by the
distribution, nor any other Enigmail XPI.

- -Patrick
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