Re: [Evolution] occasional authentication problem

[Carl Schaefer <schaefer trilug org>]

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:12 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 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.

agreed; the password dialog box should have an "ungrab" button, but
that's not an Evolution bug.

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:20 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> there is some unfinished work here. Currently, once you cancel the
> password prompt the evolution-source-registry "remembers" that this
> process cancelled the password prompt for this account and then does the
> cancel for you automatically. The only current way to workaround this is
> to close evolution, thus the evolution-source-registry process will
> forget the connection between the cancel and the client process. There
> is no other workaround than what you do.

this seems pretty clearly to be a bug in Evolution.  If there's not
already a bug report on this, I'll open one.
Carl