Re: [Evolution] why Evolution email application unnecessarily prompts for passwords on random occasions.

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 10:05 -0400, James R. Overstreet wrote:
> Why is it that on random occasions Evolution email application will
> start prompting for passwords on EVERY instance of both sending and
> receiving emails.
>
> AND then just as suddenly as it started prompting for the passwords, it
> will stop this behavior (or should I say mis-behavior), just as suddenly
> as it started with nothing having changed as far as any programming of
> either Evolution application, operating system or any other program,
> and/or data updates to the said computer system.

Passwords are handled by an external application - probably gnome-
keyring.  If gnome-keyring is not running, then Evolution will prompt
for passwords.  When it is prompting for passwords, check that the
keyring daemon is running.

If it isn't running, then you need to find out what's making it die. I
doubt it's an Evolution issue.

> Am using Evolution version 3.10.4 on a Linux Mint 17.3 operating system
> computer with all updates applied as on today.

3.10.4 is rather old now.

> This problem has been going on for several years now, seems like to me
> it is time someone decided to fix it.

Have you filed a bug report on it? If not, then it won't be fixed,
because the people who do the fixing don't know about it.  If you have,
what's the bugzilla ID?  But in any case, nothing will happen with
3.10.4 from a developers point of view.

P.