Re: Enigmail
Javier Kohen wrote:
Hi, is anybody using Enigmail successfully with Thunderbird? It
doesn't work at all here: the keymanager doesn't work, signatures and
encryption don't work either for incoming or outgoing messages. No
error messages are being shown, except by the "Test" feature inside
the Debug tab in Enigmail's preferences. It says that it cannot
contact the Enigmail service.
Greetings,
Hi Javier,
I've been using it for several months.
I had to build mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail from the debian source
package, as it needed to be compiled for gcc-3.4 and g++-3.4. See
/share/software/src/zinfo for details.
I then switched to Encrypting your e-mails with Thunderbird, Enigmail &
GnuPG <http://www.uk-dave.com/tutorials/misc/enigmail.shtml> and
generated keys directly from Thunderbird. This works -- just make sure
you don't use "Use pgp-agent for passphrase handling" -- that failed
consistently (warrants further testing; there were a lot of variables
and I may be mistaken).
To see your keys, issue "gpg --list-keys".
I then exported the keys to a public key server using this command
(later I discovered kpgp will do it):
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --send-keys 0x<public key ID>
It took a while, but eventually it worked.
Dave
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