Windows fully supports symlinks http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlin ks-on-windows-or-linux/
John A. Wallace The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if you get in the first stroke. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:enigmail-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of LeRoy > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 7:34 AM > To: Enigmail user discussion list > Subject: Re: [Enigmail] enigmail stopped working > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 03/01/2013 05:50 AM, Raziel Kanos wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I noticed today that i get a message from my gnupg that it could not > > start the enigmail service. > > > > Trying to deinstall and reinstall enigmail didn't do the trick. I > also > > tried to run the setup wizzard again, and it keeps telling me that it > > can't find the gpg.exe file - but it's looking in the correct path > for > > it. > > > > I am running Thunderbird 17.0.3 - Anyone has an idea what to do? > > > > This is the header from you. > > Received: from [127.0.0.1] (HSI-KBW-091-089-003-179.hsi2.kabelbw.de > [91.89.3.179]) > by h1798830.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CF87CE834EF > for <[email protected]>; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:51:13 +0100 > (CET) > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:50:58 +0100 > From: Raziel Kanos <[email protected]> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; > rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 > > Windows NT 6.1 seems to indicate you are running Windows 7. > > First I would check your PATH. Since I am not too familiar with > Windows I assume that you can open a console window and run: > > echo $PATH; > > This is the command for MACS, Linux, BSD and etc for checking you path. > You should see something like this in your PATH. > > /windows/Program\ Files/GNU/GnuPG/ (Linux Version) > C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\ (Windows Version) > > The directory that contains your gpg.exe should be listed in the system > PATH variable. If it is not listed in the PATH then enigmail probably > cannot find it. > > You should check to make sure that gpg.exe is in the directory in the > path. > > I also would manually run gpg from the console. > > gpg --fingerprint > > This will list all of the keys in your default keyring if it is > working. If gpg.exe cannot be found you will get an error message. > > If gpg.exe is working properly and is in the same path that enigmail is > using then enigmail should be able to find it. If gpg.exe is located > in a different directory than where enigmail thinks it should be then > you can either copy gpg.exe from the directory where it is located to > where enigmail says it should be or you can create a symbolic link > pointing to the file. I do not know if windows supports symlinks. > > I hope that this does not confuse you too much and helps a little. > > LeRoy :-) _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
