Re: [Evolution] login password

[Albert Wagner <albertwagner cox net>]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? No other
application seems to require the password to my Gnome keyring.  I have
no experience with keyrings and such.  I have them all disabled on
startup.