[Enigmail] Running enigmail on winXP and opensuse

[LeRoy Cressy]

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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.
> 
One of the replies I think mentioned it might prudent to only share
~/.mozilla-thunderbird/??????????/Mail/ and
~/.mozilla-thunderbird/??????????/ImapMail/ directories.  The paths are
different for windows and linux.  Thus if you share the entire profile
directory between the two systems one instance of enigmail will work
while the other will not.  Also, any other plugins that you install will
only work on one system.

Sharing the entire profile directory tree has caused troubles.  If you
set the gpg path to /usr/bin/gpg in linux that will mess up the

> 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?
> 
> LeRoy Cressy schrieb:
>> What I was attempting to get across was that Linux distributions do not
>> and cannot use M$ Windows .exe files.  For a new Linux user it is
>> easiest for them to use the package management system. Today there are
>> so many distributions whereas when I first started using Linux there was
>> only RedHat and Slackware.  Both of them would fit on a single CD.
> 
> 
> Robert J. Hansen schrieb:
>> Thanks to the magic of Wine, they can.  However, there are caveats on
>> that, and this is the wrong mailing list to discuss Wine.  Interested
>> people should check out http://www.winehq.org.
> 
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