I have all these programs:

enigmail 1.8.2 , thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64 , and gnupg2-2.0.14-8.el6.x86_64 .

They all sort-of work. If I start up thunderbird and want to compose a message, I can do that. If I say I want to sign or encrypt it, I can sort of do that too. A pinentry dialog box comes up, and I enter my passphrase, and it works.

Similarly for reading signed or encrypted messages.

But I get the pinentry dialog box _every time_, and I did not used to with the 1.4 (I think it was ) versions of these programs.

I have googled and stuff, and nothing I find seems to apply to RHEL systems. They have me enter stuff into .profile, and I have no such file. They want me to put stuff into .xsession, .bashrc, and .bash_profile. They all do stuff. But not useable.

I assume this is a configuration problem. But where do I find the _authoritative documentation_ on how to configure these programs to work together.

Some advice talks about a gnome keyring.