Re: Installing Enigmail
Quoting HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, James Hosken wrote:
>
> > > $ su - <user>
> > > # export DISPLAY=:0.0; xauth merge ~<user>/.Xauthority
> > > # xfontsel &
>
> Upon reading this again I see a possibility for confusion. The user
> you
> "su" to in order to run that application is iof course not the same
> as
> the user whose cookie you need to import (in other words the user
> that
> can already use X apps). You probably understood this, but just to
> be
> sure I mention it anyway (and for the benefit of those searching the
> archives at a later moment in time).
It was a bit confusing, but I worked it out. :-)
> > I then started Mozilla as root to complete the install.
> > Then started as mornal user but it fails "Failed to initialise
> > Enigmail"
> > I have entered the path for gpg as /usr/bin/gpg
> >
> > What's going wrong?
>
> Not sure, but it could be a permissions problem. Is the user part of
> a group that has access to the necessary files?
Enigmail is installed in the mozilla dir, so I would guess that the
user does have permission to enigmail as they have permission for
mozilla.
> Another thing I seem to remember is that enigmail is quite picky when
> i comes to using the correct version with mozilla or thunderbird. Did
> you check you are using the version that is meant for your mozilla?
> See mozdev.org for more info on that.
Testing has got Mizilla 1.0.0 and I installed the correct version of
enigmail. I guess dig around mozdev.org may help.
Cheers
James
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