Thunderbird 78 external smart card not working (GPGME)
Hello everyone,
I have installed the current Thunderbird 78.2.1 and followed the manual (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards) for enabling my external smart card. Unfortunately this does not work.
I have added my public key to the Thunderbird key store and granted it full trust. I am using Gpg4Win with Kleopatra. There I have created my primary key and different subkeys. The primary key for certifying other signatures resides on my computer while the other three (encryption, authentication & signing) resides on my smart card.
According to the manual I have added the primary key ID to Thunderbird.
Problems: I can encrypt draft email but I can't decrypt them. I cannot send myself encrypted and signed emails. Thunderbird does not even ask myself for entering a PIN to unlock my smart card.
Anyone else having similar issues?
Thanks & best regards,
Mathias
Endret
All Replies (1)
If you're using the external gnupg configuration, then please check that Thunderbird can load GPGME. The Thunderbird error console should show a success message mentioning gpgme if it can.
Are you using a 64 bit version of Thunderbird? It's currently know that it doesn't work, because a 64-bit version of the GPGME DLL is required, which is not yet available.
https://admin.hostpoint.ch/pipermail/enigmail-users_enigmail.net/2020-August/005731.html
If that's your issue, you could try to temporarily use the 32 bit version of Thunderbird on Windows until the issue has been resolved.
Kai