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Bug 513667 - Evolution only saves at most three passwords
Evolution only saves at most three passwords
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 354923
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.12.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[passwords]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-01 12:02 UTC by Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
Modified: 2008-06-07 12:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20



Description Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus 2008-02-01 12:02:22 UTC
Please describe the problem:
I'm using Fedora 8 with Evolution version 2.12.3 and GNOME 2.20.2
Also two IMAP and two SMTP accounts are managed via Evo.

The problem is that Evo only saves at most three passwords. This means that if I have a look at the default gnome keyring only three passwords are stored. Either two IMAP and one SMTP password or one IMAP and two SMTP passwords. Whenever I need the fourth password I have to enter it and one of the three other passwords get substituted by the new one.

Following is an example to reproduce the error:
1) SMTP password for account X is stored in gnome keyring
2) IMAP password for account X is stored in gnome keyring
3) SMTP password for account Y is stored in gnome keyring
4) While starting Evo it tries to synchronize the IMAP of account Y but no password is saved so it prompts for it. After typing in the password one of the three passwords (e.g. the IMAP password of account X) which are already stored in the gnome keyring get substituted.
5) Now SMTP and IMAP password for account Y are in gnome keyring. But IMAP password of account X got substituted.

If you would now try to receive mails via IMAP of account X the game starts again and one of the three passwords get substituted by the newly entered one.

This is a really annoying bug. Does someone has a fix for it?

Steps to reproduce:
1. Just do some action (e.g. sending or receiving mail) of the account which fourth password is not stored. Then one of the existing passwords gets substituted.
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus 2008-06-07 06:47:50 UTC
I noticed something while Upgrading to GNOME 2.22. When I setup my IMAP and SMTP account #1 with both the same passwords at least one of them gets saved to keyring and I don't get a password prompt.

Guys is it possible that you designed evolutions password management to support only one password for IMAP and SMTP? Whenever I have different passwords for IMAP and SMTP only one gets saved into keyring and evolution asks me to enter the other one again and again and again ...
Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2008-06-07 12:25:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 354923 ***