thunderbird can not import gpg-key

From	Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	thunderbird can not import gpg-key
Date	2023-03-25 11:30 +0100
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Hi folks, 

I wanted to import my secret key into thunderbird, but thunderbird can not read the directory. 

What an I doing wrong?

I do (my thunderbird is in German, so my English translation might not be quite accurate): 

- starting thunderbird
- chose  in "Open PGP" the option "add key"
- click "add existing key"
- click "files for import"
- now chose in my /home the folder .gnupg/private-keys-v1.d

and then I get

Error opening /home/myusername/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d
Access not granted

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the settings for these are set:

drwxr-xr-x   6 myusername myusername     20480 24. Mär 17:51 .gnupg
drwxr-xr-x   6 myusername myusername     20480 24. Mär 17:51 .gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/

The keys themselves are set "rw" and owner is "myusername:myusername"

The only explanation I have, that thunderbird is calling a plugin with another owner than me, as 
thunderbird itself is started with ownership "myusername".

However, even if I set the rights to "everybody can read it" (what is of course only set for testing 
purposes!) it does not work.

Anything else, where I should take a look?

Thanks for any hints.

Best regards

Hans

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thunderbird can not import gpg-key Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-03-25 11:30 +0100
  Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2023-03-25 14:00 +0100
    Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-03-25 14:40 +0100
      Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2023-03-25 15:20 +0100
        Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-03-25 16:00 +0100
          [SOLVED] Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-03-25 16:20 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key Probably like <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2023-03-25 17:20 +0100
      Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2023-03-25 16:20 +0100

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