Re: [Evolution] Passwords not been saved

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 13:33 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote: 
> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:45 +0200, Ignacio Mas Ivars wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have just upgraded to evo 2.7.4 and now my passwords for the IMAP
> > accounts are  not been saved between evo runs. Every time I start I need
> > to type the passwords even though the 'Save password' option is marked.
> > I guess I am missing some update to some gnome component, but I don't
> > know which one and I don't want to simply make a hole system update. Any
> > hints on how evo 2.7.4 stores the passwords?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > /Ignacio
>
> $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution stores the hashed passwords.
> Some types of failures erroneously get classified under 'Authentication
> Failed' which then removes the saved password and causes Evolution to
> prompt.
In case you have built with GNOME KEYRING, make sure that your keyring
daemon exists. Normally, it is started , unless you "su or ssh" as a
user. In which case you have to start the gnome-keyring-daemon and
export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET GNOME_KEYRING_PID manually and start
evolution from the shell.

Thanks
Srini.
> You can capture such failures using CAMEL_DEBUG=1 on the terminal where
> you run Evolution and file a bug report with the log attached.
>
> Cheers,
> --Harish
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