Re: [Evolution] Evolution keeps asking for my passwords

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2021-03-24 at 15:01 -0700, Steven Taylor wrote:
> Hi, I have had evolution 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 running for about a week now
> on my Kubuntu 20.04 system and it has been fine. Today, when I booted
> the system, it said an application wanted access to my keyring so I
> entered my password for that and started Evolution. Now every time
> Evolution checks my mail, it asks for my email passwords, I put them
> in, sometimes leaveing the "Store password in the keyring" box
> checked, sometimes with the box cleared. Everytime, it goes ahead and
> retrievesmy mail okay, but the next time, it asks for the password
> again. It has never done this before now and I haven't made any
> changes. I am about ready to go back to Opera as my mail client.

evolution isn't able to communicate with your keyring. Thus it is
asking the password everytime (and is unable to save it, and thus it
gets asked again next time). If there really wasn't any change, I would
reboot and see if it gets picked properly, as it may be the quickest
solution. Otherwise, you can start by shutting doen all evolution
processes (eolution --force-shutdown), checking the keyring contenst
(open seahorse)...

Best regards