Re: [Evolution] evolutio forgets my passwords every start

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 08:13 -0500, Matt Needles wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 05:57 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 09:39 -0200, Lailah wrote:
> > > I was doing some proofs in my system in which live together KDE, Gnome
> > > 3 and Cinnamon.  When I start Evolution in Gnome and click on
> > > "Send/Receiving"  it asks to me for keyring password and then start
> > > normally.  When I start Evolution in KDE and click on
> > > "Send/Receiving"  it asks just like in Gnome.  It doesn't ask me
> > > twice.  The same happen in Cinnamon.  I thought that was the normal
> > > behaviour.  
> > > Then, what is the normal behaviour?  No asking at all?
> >
> > When I, using GNOME, start Evolution I am not prompted to unlock my
> > keyring as that is performed by the GNOME greeter when I authenticated
> > there.
> In other words, if you have automatic login configured for your system,
> where you don't have to enter your password when your system boots up,
> then you'll have to enter the keyring password the first time you use
> any application that requires a password, a la Evo. I discovered this by
> accident, so I turned off auto-login, and set all email accounts in Evo
> to remember their passwords.

No-one has said anything about automatic login. That isn't the issue the
OP asked about, nor is it what Adam implies in his post.

poc