Re: [Evolution] login password

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:47 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote:
> Why does Evolution need my login password?  I have never seen any other
> application require such a thing, certainly not a mail client.

It doesn't. It requires the password to your Gnome keyring, which is
where is keeps your mail account passwords. Some people make the keyring
password the same as the login password, which IIRC is detected by the
Gnome system as a special case. Others don't do this.

poc