[Enigmail] [Solved!] Enigmail not detecting/enabling GPG anymore

[Jean-Marc Meessen]

Hello Olav,

EUREKA.

And it was so obvious !

First of all, I need to say that I am fairly new with unix though I have
25 years experience in computing.

When I salvaged the files (the profile directory that was stored on the
TrueCrypt disk), I restored them on the flash drive. For a reason or the
other, this drive mounts with "root" as owner and so that "user" has no
execute rights...
I moved the profile to the main disk (where I am the owner), changed the
.ini, and tadaa, Enigmail works...

I was put on the scent of this when I tried to run Thunderbird under
root (sudo) and enigmail worked. So, I then started to look for a
security related problem and realized that Enigmail "executables" are
stored in the profile. If they can't be executed, it can't work correctly...
CQFD (ce qu'il fallait démontrer)

Stupid mistake, and sorry to have used this list bandwidth uselessly.

Jmm
(from the eeePC)