Re: [Evolution] occasional authentication problem

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 01:00 -0400, Carl Schaefer wrote:
> I've seen Evolution 3.12.1 occasionally lose the ability to connect to
> one of my mail servers (not always the same server, btw) after having
> been connected for a while.  When this happens a dialog box appears
> asking me to re-enter my password.  Unfortunately the dialog box grabs
> the X input, which prevents me from retrieving the password from my
> password manager, so I cancel the dialog box.  

The issue of modal password boxes is discussed here every now and again
- usually in the context of Evo not remembering passwords.  But it's a
window manager issue not just Evo.  AFAIUI all Evo does is to ask the
window manager to give it the password for a certain account identifier
- that password is retrieved from a keyring store somewhere and if it's
not available, it will be prompted for.  It's not Evolution that puts up
the password box.

> I didn't see any obvious matches in bugzilla, so I'm inclined to create
> a new bug report...

 See:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688434

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660293

As far as I can see the issue still exists and is being "actively
discussed", but Evolution is not the place to fix it.

P.