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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 16:19 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 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.

The desktop environment may also be relevant. Evo is built for Gnome
and using it in other DE's such as KDE can require some extra work to
make gnome-keyring run automatically on login, which is the desirable
situation.

poc