Hi Sylvain,
Thanks for your hint! As I had already installed gpgsm (compiled from the gnupg-1.9.10 sources), I thought I should try compiling libgpgme11 on my system instead of installing the debian binary package. I fetched the debian sources, built the packages libgpgme11 and libgpgme11-dev and installed them through dpkg - SUCCESS!
At least the configuration of the GPGME S/MIME backend in KMail is no longer grayed out. Anyway, it will take some time to test the S/MIME signing and encryption thoroughly, and I will report my mileage later.
Clemens
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