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Bug 499224 - When Evo asks for my APOP password, it saves it just for the session
When Evo asks for my APOP password, it saves it just for the session
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[passwords] evolution[pop]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-23 18:44 UTC by Paul Smith
Modified: 2010-07-10 02:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Paul Smith 2007-11-23 18:44:03 UTC 
When I enter my password for my Exchange and IMAP accounts, Evo will allow me to save those passwords in the keyring manager so that I don't have to re-enter it when I restart Evolution.

However, when I'm asked for a password for my APOP account, the only checkbox I get is to save the password for this session, and sure enough when I restart Evo I have to re-enter my APOP password.

Evo should have the ability to save POP passwords in the keyring as well so I don't have to reenter them when I restart Evo.

Other information:
Comment 1 Paul Smith 2007-11-26 16:58:03 UTC 
I wouldn't be surprised if this had been reported before, BUT I definitely looked through the database before I reported it and came up completely empty.  My search was not aided by the fact that you can't search for words less than 4 characters long (such as "pop" :-/) :-(.

Anyway, although it seems like too obvious an issue to have never been reported, I can't find another bug.  So I filed this one.
Comment 2 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-12-04 06:47:31 UTC 
Sankar, Is it so?
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2007-12-18 20:20:55 UTC 
Try this and see if it helps:

echo -n default > ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default
Comment 4 Paul Smith 2007-12-19 02:06:29 UTC 
Well, I tried this but nothing changed.  It still asked me for my password with a checkbox offering to save it for the session, and if I stopped/restarted evo it asked me again.  I don't really understand what this does; am I supposed to put my password in there instead of "default"?  I did it exactly as you typed it.

Before this I had two files in ~/.gnome2/keyrings: a default.keyring and a login.keyring.

Does anyone else see this?  Does everyone else's POP accounts save passwords over multiple sessions?
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:36:44 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 6 Patrick Ohly 2008-08-26 09:35:05 UTC 
FWI, I have observed the same problem.
Comment 7 Sankar P 2008-12-24 16:32:52 UTC 
I believe this could be the mail-config issue. Does it still happen in trunk, After we committed the patch for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552583 

I believe this should not happen anymore. I will verify and close (or fix if needed)
Comment 8 Milan Crha 2010-05-24 16:44:16 UTC 
Could you retest with actual stable, 2.30.x please? Thanks in advance.

Note that my pop3 account remembers passwords well, though I use a plain text password only, no special authentication mechanism. From the code reading I agree with Sankar, changes in bug #552583 should fix this issue as well.
Comment 9 Tobias Mueller 2010-07-10 02:23:43 UTC 
hm. I'm closing as OBSOLETE now. Please reopen if this is still an issue.