Thanks for the response Roland, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I've installed pam_keyring, and have also set the environmental variables as shown below:
laptop> gnome-keyring-daemon
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-qdYsbQ/socket
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=16304
laptop> export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-qdYsbQ/socket
laptop> export GNOME_KEYRING_PID=16304
I guess what confuses me about my problem is, unlike others with a similar issue, I'm running Fedora Core 6 with Gnome, not KDE.
Also, I cannot enter any password into evolution. The password window won't accept any input after a very short amount of time (the time it takes for evolution to come up). At this time evolution completely freezes, and I cannot even look at mail stored on this computer. From what I gather by looking at the URL below and others, it seems everyone else can at least enter a password. I've posted my problem to the forum at gnomesupport.org and had no luck.
By the way, sorry about the delay in responding. I had to replace the keyboard on the computer with the problem, and until I did that I had no way of using the computer.
>See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222479 for a solution
>regards, Roland
>2006/12/22, Derek <schutt uwyo edu>:
> Hi all,
> Yesterday Evolution 2.8 decided to ask for a password for an MS exchange
> email account I have to use. Like it normally would if it wants a
> password, a password window pops-up. However, as soon as the evolution
> window that shows all my mail is fully rendered, I can no longer type
> any characters into the password window. The windows somehow becomes
> inactive, and everything associated with Evolution freezes.
> I'd guess I'm having issues with the gnome-keyring-manager, but I don't
> see anything weird, and I don't really understand this so I don't really
> know what to look for.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks. I'm using GNOME 2.16 on a Fedora Core 6 machine (x86_64), and
> trying to run Evolution 2.8.