Ah, I think I understand. The error I reported does not impact
functionality, it's basically cosmetic.
The reason I am unable to encrypt must then lay elsewhere. It's odd, I
can see my key in KMail but not assign KMail to use it.
Identities > Cryptography > S/MIME signing [and] encryption certificate
only show, "No key"
Could you point me to a good up-to-date guide on configuring Kleopatra
and KMail? Those I have found are outdated, and search engines point me
to GMail guides rather than KMail - wonderfully frustrating.
Best wishes and thanks,
Tom
On 04/11/2025 10.45 am, Sune Stolborg Vuorela - sune at vuorela.dk wrote:
Hi
Summary: You are correct. Use Kleopatra directly instead.
It seems it is correct that loading the GnuPG settings module in KMail doesn't
work.
But please note that the GnuPG settings module is just a component from
Kleopatra, so all the same settings can be reached using Kleopatra (and they
all configure the same GnuPG on your system).
It also seems like it is an upstream bug that has been fixed in later upstream
versions (by doing stuff quite much differently in the 25.04 and later series)
Sorry for the inconvenience.
/Sune
On Monday, November 3, 2025 1:12:02 PM Central European Standard Time Tom
wrote:
Package: kmail
Version: 4:24.12.3-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
With gpg and kleopatra installed, when I go to:
Settings > Configure Kmail > Security > Encryption > GnuPG Settings ...
I receive the following error:
KPluginFactory could not create a KCModule instance from
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/qt6/plugins/pim6/kcms/kleopatra/kleopatra_config_gnupgsystem.so
At first I thought a component might be missing, then did sudo apt install
kde- full, however, the error persists. I now wonder if it could be related
with the transition from Plasma- and QT v.5 to v.6?
NB. encryption worked flawlessly on Debian 12.
Best wishes and thanks,
Tom
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii akonadi-server
4:24.12.3-1 ii kdepim-runtime
4:24.12.3-1 ii kio6
6.13.0-6 ii libakonadisearch-bin
4:24.12.3-1 ii libakonadisearch-plugins
4:24.12.3-1 ii libc6
2.41-12 ii libgcc-s1
14.2.0-19 ii libgpg-error0
1.51-4 ii libgpgmepp6t64
1.24.2-3 ii libgrantleetheme-plugins
24.12.3-1 ii libkf6bookmarks6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6calendarcore6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6codecs6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6colorscheme6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6completion6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6configcore6
6.13.0-2 ii libkf6configgui6
6.13.0-2 ii libkf6configwidgets6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6contacts6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6coreaddons6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6crash6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6dbusaddons6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6guiaddons6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6i18n6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6iconthemes6
6.13.0-2 ii libkf6iconwidgets6
6.13.0-2 ii libkf6itemmodels6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6itemviews6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6jobwidgets6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6kcmutils6
6.13.0-2 ii libkf6kcmutilscore6
6.13.0-2 ii libkf6kiocore6
6.13.0-6 ii libkf6kiofilewidgets6
6.13.0-6 ii libkf6kiogui6
6.13.0-6 ii libkf6kiowidgets6
6.13.0-6 ii libkf6notifications6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6notifyconfig6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6parts6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6service-bin
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6service6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6sonnetui6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6statusnotifieritem6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6textautocorrectioncore1
1.5.4-4 ii libkf6textautocorrectionwidgets1
1.5.4-4 ii libkf6textcustomeditor1
1.5.4-4 ii libkf6textutils1
1.5.4-4 ii libkf6userfeedbackcore6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6userfeedbackwidgets6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6widgetsaddons6
6.13.0-1 ii libkf6windowsystem6
6.13.0-2 ii libkf6xmlgui6
6.13.0-1 ii libkpim6akonadiagentbase6
[libkpim6akonadiagentbase6-24.12] 4:24.12.3-1 ii
libkpim6akonadicontactcore6 [libkpim6akonadicontactcore6-24.1 4:24.12.3-1
2]
ii libkpim6akonadicontactwidgets6 [libkpim6akonadicontactwidgets
4:24.12.3-1 6-24.12]
ii libkpim6akonadicore6 [libkpim6akonadicore6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6akonadimime6 [libkpim6akonadimime6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6akonadisearchdebug6
[libkpim6akonadisearchdebug6-24.1 4:24.12.3-1 2]
ii libkpim6akonadisearchpim6 [libkpim6akonadisearchpim6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6akonadiwidgets6 [libkpim6akonadiwidgets6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6calendarutils6 [libkpim6calendarutils6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6gravatar6 [libkpim6gravatar6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6identitymanagementcore6
[libkpim6identitymanagementco 24.12.3-1 re6-24.12]
ii libkpim6identitymanagementwidgets6 [libkpim6identitymanagemen 24.12.3-1
twidgets6-24.12]
ii libkpim6kontactinterface6 [libkpim6kontactinterface6-24.12] 24.12.3-1
ii libkpim6ksievecore6 [libkpim6ksievecore6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6ksieveui6 [libkpim6ksieveui6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6ldapcore6 [libkpim6ldapcore6-24.12]
24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6ldapwidgets6 [libkpim6ldapwidgets6-24.12]
24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6libkdepim6 [libkpim6libkdepim6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6libkleo6 [libkpim6libkleo6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-3 ii libkpim6mailcommon6 [libkpim6mailcommon6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6mailtransport6
[libkpim6mailtransport6-24.12] 24.12.3-1 ii
libkpim6messagecomposer6 [libkpim6messagecomposer6-24.12] 4:24.12.3-4
ii libkpim6messagecore6 [libkpim6messagecore6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-4 ii libkpim6messagelist6 [libkpim6messagelist6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-4 ii libkpim6messageviewer6 [libkpim6messageviewer6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-4 ii libkpim6mime6 [libkpim6mime6-24.12]
24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6mimetreeparser6
[libkpim6mimetreeparser6-24.12] 4:24.12.3-4 ii libkpim6pimcommon6
[libkpim6pimcommon6-24.12] 4:24.12.3-1 ii
libkpim6pimcommonakonadi6 [libkpim6pimcommonakonadi6-24.12] 4:24.12.3-1
ii libkpim6templateparser6 [libkpim6templateparser6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-4 ii libkpim6textedit6 [libkpim6textedit6-24.12]
24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6tnef6 [libkpim6tnef6-24.12]
4:24.12.3-1 ii libkpim6webengineviewer6
[libkpim6webengineviewer6-24.12] 4:24.12.3-4 ii libqgpgmeqt6-15
1.24.2-3 ii libqt6core6t64
6.8.2+dfsg-9 ii libqt6dbus6
6.8.2+dfsg-9 ii libqt6gui6
6.8.2+dfsg-9 ii
libqt6keychain1 0.15.0-1 ii
libqt6network6 6.8.2+dfsg-9
ii libqt6webenginecore6
6.8.2+dfsg-4 ii libqt6webenginecore6-bin
6.8.2+dfsg-4 ii libqt6widgets6
6.8.2+dfsg-9 ii libqt6xml6
6.8.2+dfsg-9 ii libstdc++6
14.2.0-19
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii accountwizard 4:24.12.3-1
ii gnupg 2.4.7-21
ii kdepim-addons 24.12.3-1
ii kdepim-themeeditors 4:24.12.3-1
ii mbox-importer 4:24.12.3-1
ii pim-data-exporter 4:24.12.3-1
ii pim-sieve-editor 4:24.12.3-1
ii pinentry-gnome3 [pinentry-x11] 1.3.1-2
Versions of packages kmail suggests:
pn clamav <none>
ii kaddressbook 4:24.12.3-1
ii kleopatra 4:24.12.3-1
pn procmail <none>
pn spamassassin | bogofilter | spambayes | bsfilter | crm114 <none>
-- no debconf information
