Ok this has been bothering me for a while, I upgrade my desktop to CentOS 6 to have a nice stable platform going forward from my previous Fedora 14 install and all was good. Except Enigmail gpg passphrase caching broke. Every time I hit an encrypted email I had to enter in the passphrase at least twice it seemed, and pity me if i clicked on a threaded email conversation.
So after digging around I found the following fix:
Edit .bash_profile and add:
gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support --write-env-file "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info"
if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then
. "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info"
export GPG_AGENT_INFO
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
fi
Edit .bashrc and add:
GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY
And now all is happy. Some of this was found on this page:
http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html#Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT
Some of it was trial and error, plus a health amount of googling.
