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enigmail problems on OSX Catalina (64-bit)

2020-01-19
2020-01-20
  • Mark Jeftovic

    Mark Jeftovic - 2020-01-19

    After moving to OSX Catalina, 64-bit, Enigmail fails in both Thunderbird and Postbox. I've run the install wizard several times for Eigmail / GnuPG, the GnuGP always says "installation successful", but the enigmail within thunderbird wizard says "the installation was not successful".

    I think the problem may be that /usr/local/libexec/gnupg-pcsc-wrapper is 32-bit, I'm not sure if that got there when I migrated all my data from old laptop or the installer is putting it there:

    /usr/local/libexec/gnupg-pcsc-wrapper --batch --no-tty --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8 --version --version
    zsh: bad CPU type in executable: /usr/local/libexec/gnupg-pcsc-wrapper

    From looking at the enigmail console it's also trying to use

    /usr/local/bin/gpg2
    zsh: bad CPU type in executable: /usr/local/bin/gpg2

    ....and SOLVED. In case anybody else needs it:

    I've found /usr/local/MacGPG2 and gone into Enigmail preferences and changed "override with" to /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg

     
  • Olav Seyfarth

    Olav Seyfarth - 2020-01-20

    Hi Mark, it works out of the box if you let Enigmail find/decide which binary to execute. Delete the path-to-bin in Enigmail and retry, please. If it doesen't work, please post relevant (start of TB/EM) parts of the debug log accessible through the enigmail menu.

     

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