Re: Enigmail

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

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