Enigmail and GPG not compatible/wrong settings?

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Enigmail and GPG not compatible/wrong settings?

Forum: Enigmail Support

Creator: Michael Schmid

Created: 2013-06-29

Updated: 2013-06-30

Michael Schmid - 2013-06-29

Somehow it seems that my enigmail does have problems to "communicate" with my pgp installation...

OS: Ubuntu 12.10
Thunderbird: 17.0.7
Enigmail: 1.5.1
GPG: 1.4.11

I was not even able to generate a keypair using enigmail. I just stuck during generation and did not work (waited about an hour). When I generated the keypair directly on the console it just took me a minute or so...
Also enigmail can not sign or encrypt my messages. I also can not find the key in "Schlüssel verwalten..."

Here is some more info:

If I want to just sign a message and send it to myself:
Error: "Das Senden wurde abgebrochen. Fehler - Verschlüsselung fehlgeschlagen"
Console:
*START*
enigmail> /usr/lib/gnupg/gpgkeys_curl --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --comment Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ -t --clearsign -u 0xDAC0ECFB --use-agent
*END*****

I also have already another public key in my keyring, but I enigmail seems to be not able to find it.

Anyone an idea? What info do you need to find the problem?

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Ludwig Hügelschäfer - 2013-06-29

You seem to be bitten by bug 148 https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/148/

Please follow the discussion there.

Last edit: Ludwig Hügelschäfer 2013-06-29

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Michael Schmid - 2013-06-29

OK, thanks!

So you think the other problems I have (not able to generate Keypair, keys already known not shown, etc.) have the same source?

Is it possible to fix this by myself easily or do I have to wait for a fix?

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Michael Schmid - 2013-06-29

I added the quotes as suggested in the thread " https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/148/ ". But that did not solve my problem! :-(

(--> I got the quotes in the console, but apparently did not help)

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Ludwig Hügelschäfer - 2013-06-29

Ok, my first shot did not help, sorry. Please post (private things obfuscated) or send a debug log.

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Michael Schmid - 2013-06-29

I also get messages like this one:

Here some message depending on action done
/usr/lib/gnupg/gpgkeys_curl: invalid option -- '-'
-h, --help help
-V machine readable version
--version human readable version
-o output to this file

If I want to perform test (OpenPGP-Settings --> Tab "Debuging") I get message:
Ein unbekannter Fehler ist aufgetreten. (Unknown error occured)
And console says:
EnigTest: START ****
EnigTest: To: mschmid@gmx.ch
TEST MESSAGE 123
TEST MESSAGE 345

Last edit: Michael Schmid 2013-06-29

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Patrick Brunschwig - 2013-06-30

Gpgkeys_curl is the wrong tool. The correct tool is gpg or gpg2. Gpgkeys_curl only handles downloads and uploads to key servers.

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Michael Schmid - 2013-06-30

Ups... :-( Thanks Patrick, that was the problem! (Is it possible that enigmail set it automaticaly to this path? I think I did not set this path, but I am not sure.)

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- Patrick Brunschwig - 2013-06-30
  
  Enigmail won't look at such a location. Enigmail only looks for gpg and
  gpg2 in the directories of the PATH environment variable.
  
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