Hi Lee: I'm no expert but.... it seems if you start evolution BEFORE you unlock the keyring, its going to ask you for a username and password. If you unlock the keyring and then start evolution, I would think this issue will go away. Why does your keyring have your root password in it? Cheers, john On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 22:24 -0700, Lee McKusick wrote: Hello Evolution List, Can you suggest to me instructions for detecting a mail tampering program or instructions for attaching a computer running an ethernet packet program to determine if my email traffic is being altered by some kind of man-in-the-middle process? For the past year I have been having popup windows titled "Mail Authentication Request" coming up every single time my Ubuntu computer starts. Often times the Mail Authentication Request popup appears before another popup titled "Unlock keyring". The popup "Unlock keyring" contains my user password (which is also the root password since this is a Ubuntu system). I am pretty sure Evolution can't do email until "Unlock keyring" is passed. This seems odd, why does Evolution ask me for these very very important email passwords over and over? In the past, I mean over 1 year ago, Evolution never lost email passwords. Speaking about the status of Evolution a year ago, I simply never had to retype my email passwords. No I seem to have to retype them every single time I start the computer. When the "Mail authentication request" pops up I can't access a terminal screen to look up passwords, which is a big annoyance because my passwords are long and hard to type. Something strange is going on. I have run top and I don't see any strange process names. I also don't think a hostile intrusion is going on. I have not had my email accounts used by a hostile party. The rootkit hunter program doesn't find any problem. Therefore, I ask you for suggestions. I have been running Evolution 3.10.4 as part of an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS computer for way longer than 5 years. This is a modest low power Wind pc talking over ethernet eventually to a garden variety cable tv internet access. Cordially yours, Lee M. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list gnome org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list |