[Evolution] Bug#561513: Bug#561513: evolution: fails to remember passwords

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 17/12/2009 23:54, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 22:35 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
>> I meant in gnome-keyring. Can you see the password in the keyring
>> manager?
> 
> I don't know where, or how, to look.

Oh, sorry. In the gnome-keyring-manager package there's a
gnome-keyring-manager too. Try to run it. If you don't have the package
(it's only available from stable), maybe look in the seahorse package
(which I think have replaced the gnome-keyring-manager).
> 
>>>
>>>> Is the UI asking for password the evolution one or the
>>>> gnome-keyring one?
>>>
>>> It is asking for the POP3 password.
>>
>> So evolution can't speak to gnome-keyring. As it started appearing after
>> 2.28 upgrade, I'm assuming you already logged out (and/or rebooted
>> maybe?) few times before reporting? 
> 
> Yes, I did.

Ok.
> 
> Also, evolution keeps asking for the POP3 password even if I type it in
> several times, so I guess there must be something else.
> 
> A workaround seems to be to go offline, then go online again.  At least,
> that way, the POP3 password entered isn't forgotten (which is why I can
> write e-mails at all).

But once you've entered the password in the session, it'll forget it
even for the next “receive mail”?
> 
>> It seems that evolution can't talk to gnome-keyring, but I'm not sure if
>> it's an evolution or a gnome-keyring (or dbus or whatever) problem.
> 
> I would assume evolution, because it keeps forgetting the POP3 password.

Well, if evolution sees gnome-keyring running but it doesn't reply,
it'll do the same thing I guess. As a workaround you might be able to
just kill gnome-keyring so evolution will not ask g-k at all.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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