Re: [Evolution] evolutio forgets my passwords every start

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 15:32 -0800, John Stile wrote:
> Every time I start evolution I am prompted for passwords for accounts on
> one of the IMAP servers.
> My evolution is configured for multiple IMAP accounts on two different
> servers.
> At startup evolution hangs for a long time, but finally prompts for the
> passwords, which are already lists as dots, so I just submit and it
> works.  

Whatever password it remembers is probably wrong;  but this is almost
certainly *not* a problem with Evolution but with your keyring.
Evolution 'out-sources' credential management to the GNOME keyring;
Evolution does *not* remember passwords.

> This location does not seem to matter.
> Even after cleanly restarting the program it happens again.

Yep, because it isn't a problem with Evolution.

If you don't have Seahorse installed, install Seahorse.  Then you can
use that application to look at your keyring and delete the incorrect
entry.  That may help.

>  emerge --info
> Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,
> glibc-2.13-r4, 2.6.39-gentoo i686)

Ah ha!  You are on Gentoo.  You're keying install/setup is almost
certainly borked.

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