Error "OpenPGP Confirm: Enigmime Service not available."

[Daniel Hahler]

Caused by some of the latest updates (during the last weeks), I am getting the following error when trying to use Enigmail:

"""
Enigmime Service not available

Failed to initialize Enigmail.
Send unencrypted message?
"""

Bug #52763 is similar (symptom), but I think it is caused by some incompatibilities now.. I am using both thunderbird and enigmail from the Ubuntu repositories.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: enigmail 2:1.3.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic-pae 3.2.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 31 15:36:43 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: enigmail
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-16 (15 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sam Bromley (sam-sambromley)]

Enigmail seems not to recognize the gpg executable. The auto-detection of GPG files, and using "override" with a specified path to /usr/bin/gpg has not effect. Using the "Wizard" dialog for browsing to the gpg executable fails to consider the selected path /usr/bin/gpg as the executable. Running /usr/bin/gpg from terminal works fine.

confirmed also when running from ppa:
running enigmail Version: 2:1.3.4-0ubuntu0.10.04.1~mtn1
running thunderbird Version: 10.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1~mtn1

The following configuration works fine:
Thunderbird Version: 8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
enigmail Version: 2:1.3.2-0ubuntu1.3

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

It is fixed for me, please re-open it in case it is not fixed for you, too.