Hi Joseph, Thunderbird has a preference setting pointing to the gpg executable. It is usually in /usr/local/bin and called gpg. The 2.0 version has the same path but is called gpg2. If you change that in the path it should work.
Till Sent from my iPad On Aug 18, 2013, at 12:44, Charly Avital <[email protected]> wrote: > Joseph Laevens wrote on 8/18/13 1:00 PM: >> Hello, Enigmail; >> >> I use OSX, saved your suite to Thunderbird (17.0.8), and downloaded >> GnuPG (GPGMail 2). >> >> In the Wizard, for two days, I have been getting the message; 'The >> Wizard could not find the GnuPG executable, please locate it manually in >> the following dialog. If you did not install GnuPG yet, we recommend you >> visit http://www.gnupg.org.";. > > Launch Terminal, type: which gpg > and hit return. > The resulting answer should give you the path to Gnupg. > Then you could copy/paste the answer to your Thunderbird OpenPGP > preferences. >> >> Typically, as a non-coder, I really do not fully understand what is >> going on; yet have tried safe instruction based techniques numerous times. >> >> I also get a 'Enigmail failed to initialize' message when I try to send >> a signed, encrypted message with Thunderbird. > > Probably because you have not yet set the path to gnupg executable in > Thunderbird's OpenPGP preferences. > > It is also possible that you have not installed gnupg in your computer. >> >> My mac system is 10.6.8. Hope I am not a nuisance. It is quite frustrating. >> Any advisement would be much appreciated. > > As far as I remember, there's a specific version of gnupg for MacOS 10.6.8 > > I suggest that you go to <https://gpgtools.org>, and follow the links. > Good luck, > Charly > 0x15E4F2EA > Mac OS X 10.8.3 (12D78) > MacBook Intel C2Duo 2GHz 13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008 . > (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.0.20 - gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.14 > TB 17.0.7 Enigmail version 1.5.2 (20130703-1322) > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
