Uninstall Enigmail Application in Mac OS X – Enigmail removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall Enigmail apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Enigmail completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Enigmail application?

Uninstalling Enigmail in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Enigmail you simply need to drag & drop the Enigmail application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Enigmail from your machine.

Enigmail Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Enigmail application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Enigmail supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Enigmail Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Enigmail is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Enigmail has saved the files. Some of the location where Enigmail would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Enigmail completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the Enigmail Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Enigmail & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Enigmail application process running then quit it, make sure that Enigmail processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the Enigmail name.
Searching "Enigmail" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the Enigmail app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.