Re: [Evolution] always keeps asking for password

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 10:11 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: 
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 19:16 -0200, Sergio Gelli wrote:
> > Also use EVO at my residence and in that PC 
> > I'm using version 2,28,2
> > I do not have installed seahorse
> > The folder gnome2/keyrings never existed on this PC
> > And everything works fine
> > So it seems that these things are not causing the problem.
> > Neither seahorse or keyrings;
> Seahorse is just a program to manipulate (amongst other things) the
> Gnome keyring - it's not used by Evolution at all.

I don't understand how "I do not have installed seahorse" and "seems
that these things are not causing the problem" go together.

Seahorse is not used by Evolution; but it is utility to edit the
keyrings that are used by Evolution. 

1.) Install Seahorse
2.) Run Seahorse
3.) Do you see a keyring?
3.1.) Can you access the keyring.

> The 'culprit' is that Evo is having problems storing your password
> somewhere.  The normal/usual place that Evo stores passwords is in the
> Gnome keyring.  I don't know if there is a fall back position where it
> stores them somewhere else.
> Also, and I don't think anyone has actually asked this yet because it
> may be a bit obvious, but in the account configuration, do you have the
> box ticked that says "Remember Password"?

+1