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Bug 215162 - rc1 somehow keeps forgetting my pop password
rc1 somehow keeps forgetting my pop password
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214838
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 215207 215246 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-11-12 17:03 UTC by Jeroen Zwartepoorte
Modified: 2001-11-13 19:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Jeroen Zwartepoorte 2001-11-12 17:03:23 UTC
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Description of Problem:
Evolution rc1 keeps forgetting my pop password (and as such keeps asking me
to enter it again) even though i've checked the "remember password"
checkbox every single time.


Steps to reproduce the problem:
Unknown. It "just happens". Sometimes right after i start evolution,
sometimes when evolution automatically checks for new mail (every 10 min).
Sometimes when my pc has been running for a while and sometimes when it has
just booted.

OK, i have been able to reproduce it somewhat.
1. I checked for new mail (there wasn't any).
2. I verified that the "remember password" checkbox is checked in the Settings.
3. I closed evolution.
4. I started evolution again.
5. "remember password" is _NOT_ checked in the Settings now.

If i do "killev && oaf-slay" between steps 3 and 4, the "remember password"
is still not checked.

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


How often does this happen?
Quite often (it's noticeable and becoming annoying)


Additional Information:
Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2001-11-12 22:12:14 UTC
The bug is in wombat/wombat-private-moniker.c in
wombat_private_lookup_db(). Wombat doesn't check if the directory
~/evolution/private (where it wants to store private data such as
passwords) exists before creating the config database object. I can't
see that the directory gets created anywhere else (such as in the
first time setup of evolution), so this may well be the place to fix
it in evo itself. To work around this until it gets fixed, simply
"mkdir ~/evolution/private; chmod 600 ~/evolution/private".

Set severity and priority (hey, due to that my wife complained that
evolution lost her mail -- if that's not major, what else? ;-)
Comment 2 Heath Harrelson 2001-11-13 03:13:48 UTC
*** bug 215207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Heath Harrelson 2001-11-13 03:54:48 UTC
There are a number of other password-remembering bugs that popped up
recently that may or may not be related. It might be worthwhile to
take a look at them:

bug 215071
bug 215090
bug 215192
Comment 4 Heath Harrelson 2001-11-13 15:38:42 UTC
*** bug 215246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jeffrey Stedfast 2001-11-13 19:01:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214838 ***