{"id":233,"date":"2007-06-22T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/233"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:59:35","slug":"gpg4win-and-enigmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/233","title":{"rendered":"Gpg4Win and Enigmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently a problem that <a href=\"http:\/\/enigmail.mozdev.org\/\">Enigmail<\/a>, the OpenPGP extension for Thunderbird doesn&#8217;t work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpg4win.org\/\">Gpg4Win<\/a>. The latter is the GUI version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnupg.org\/\">GnuPG<\/a> for Windows. The versions tested were Enigmail 0.95.1 and Gpg4Win 1.1.0 but I understand other versions are affected.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be some dispute as to which program is at fault and the most seen recommendation is to un-install Gpg4Win and install the plain command line version of GnuPG. Although there is some overlap, both provide a key management GUI for instance, this would lose some of the useful disk management functions of Gpg4Win.<\/p>\n<p>I have discovered that there is a much easier fix. In Thunderbird, go to the OpenPGP ==&gt; Preferences menu item and in the &#8220;Files and Directories&#8221; window, tick Override and enter <code>C:\\Program Files\\GNU\\GnuPG\\gpg.exe<\/code>. Now stop and restart Thunderbird and every thing works just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently a problem that Enigmail, the OpenPGP extension for Thunderbird doesn&#8217;t work with Gpg4Win. The latter is the GUI version of GnuPG for Windows. The versions tested were Enigmail 0.95.1 and Gpg4Win 1.1.0 but I understand other versions are affected. There seems to be some dispute as to which program is at fault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-security","category-technical","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}