I have a machine at work with an up to date Win XP installation, it's nearly 5 years old and is hence a bit crufty. It has had Claws Mail installed using the GPG4Win port ever since it became available. When the package 14 version was installed it ended up with all the Claws-Mail components under C:\Program Files\GNU\Claws-mail\, the previous version was under C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\ On running CM it complained that it was unable to find libetpan-13.dll, but also complained it was unable to load the -13 versions of various plugins. Investigation revealed that with the exception of the PGPCore plugin, all of the plugins listed in clawsrc had the old path in their full filenames. I resolved this and also edited the shortcut to ensure that it pointed to the installed location, initially this had the old information in it. I had at least 3 different shortcuts in various start menu entries, one in GnuPG and another in GPG4Win folders and another under the new Claws Mail folder. Not too difficult to fix but maybe more so for the less experienced SC/CM user.
Changes related to this bug have been committed. Please check latest CVS and update the bug accordingly. You can also get the patch from: http://www.claws-mail.org/tracker/ 2012-11-14 [colin] 3.8.1cvs119 * src/common/plugin.c If plugin fails to load from absolute path, try from default plugin path. Fixes bug #1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different archs' Fixes bug #2777, 'Installing latest cvs116 package 14 Windows version results in wrong paths in clawsrc'
Fix will be available in 3.9.0 package, closing.