Many thanks to all who responded to my cries for help. I seem to have a functioning system now!
The trick was to:
Uninstall gnome-keyring and
Reinstall gnome-keyring
That was it! I do not know if a) gnome-keyring itself did not install properly or b) one or more dependencies were missing (despite the assertion that RPM does not allow packeages to be installed with unresolved dependencies) or c) I inadvertently did something along the way.
What I think I learned
OK, yes, I am a relative newbie to Linux (about 1.5 years with Linux Mint 13 MATE and 8-9 months with Mageia KDE) -- and will confess that I have not used command lines much since the days of MS-DOS. So, I have learned a bit more about Linux -- other than how to distro hop. :)
More importantly to address an issue that was raised during my agonizing: it would appear that KWallet and Gnome keyring can co-exist -- and that Evo will not call KWallet (or at least the latter will not respond). I did try running Evo without gnome-keyring, but it would not function. After reinstalling the keyring it behaved normally asking for a master password and the password for the e-mail account.
Again, thanks to Matthew, Patrick, Pete, Ralf, Rick and anyone whose response may have crossed this message in cyberspace.
Roy W. Reese
Madrid, Spain
