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just had a little problem to fix;

when i opened an encrypted or signed message in thunderbird, the error “the enigmime service is not available” was shown. however, enigmail and thunderbird were installed and even setting the path to the gpg binary manually doesn’t fix the problem.

however, it’s not too difficult to fix;

this uninstalls enigmail, including global settings. it’s not enough however, you’ll have to open thunderbird and remove it using the extras – add-on’s dialogue. afterwards, you may reinstall enigmail and it works as always.