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Thunderbird 115.8.0 can't find GPGME from Gpg4win 4.3.0

Luke Faraone
Luke Faraone
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Hi,

My PGP subkeys are on a Smartcard (Yubikey).

I'm running Thunderbird 115.8.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11 Enterprise (23H2; 22631.3235) with Gpg4win-4.3.0.

I configured an external key ID per Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards#Allow_the_use_of_external_GnuPG. I've imported my public key into Thunderbird's key manager.

However, when I try to send a digitally signed message, sending fails and the console in Browser Toolbox says "Error: invalid configuration, request to use external GnuPG key, but GPGME isn't working".

The GPGME shared library is installed at path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\bin_64\libgpgme-11.dll" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuPG\bin\libgpgme-11.dll". PATH contains "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\GnuPG\bin".

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Hi, My PGP subkeys are on a Smartcard (Yubikey). I'm running Thunderbird 115.8.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11 Enterprise (23H2; 22631.3235) with Gpg4win-4.3.0. I configured an external key ID per [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards#Allow_the_use_of_external_GnuPG Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards#Allow_the_use_of_external_GnuPG]. I've imported my public key into Thunderbird's key manager. However, when I try to send a digitally signed message, sending fails and the console in Browser Toolbox says "Error: invalid configuration, request to use external GnuPG key, but GPGME isn't working". The GPGME shared library is installed at path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\bin_64\libgpgme-11.dll" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuPG\bin\libgpgme-11.dll". PATH contains "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\GnuPG\bin". Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Modified by Luke Faraone

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The solution was to edit my PATH environment variable to add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\bin_64" to the list.

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Luke Faraone
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The solution was to edit my PATH environment variable to add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\bin_64" to the list.

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