Re: [Evolution] Evolution doesn't save Mail Account's passwords

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 12:07 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I'm not using Debian, so my advice may mean very little to you.  When I
> > start evolution mail I get a popup dialog box from gnome keyring asking
> > for my master keyring password before evolution will let me fetch new mail
> > or even read my old mail.   Really very annoying.
>
> Well that's because that's how gnome-keyring has been configured - it
> doesn't have to do that.  A quick Google search will come up with
> methods of stopping it happening - for instance on the Ubunutu forums:
>
>   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1405477
>
> > BTW, my distribution (gentoo) is about halfway between gnome2 and gnome3,
> > so I'm not sure that I see what the gnome devs think I should see :)
>
> All that Evo does is to ask gnome-keyring for the password - if
> gnome-keyring needs more info it will ask for it: it shouldn't matter
> what version of Gnome you are using.

Unfortunately the auto-login setting of gnome-keyring is only effective
when logging into Gnome. AFAIK users of other desktops have no recourse.
This has been a sore point for years.

poc