GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 409525
Password Prompt blocking Mailreception
Last modified: 2015-06-10 06:45:00 UTC
Please describe the problem: If Evolution fails only once to connect to a server, it prompts for the password which is totally unnecessary. This causes a lot of problems: mails are not downloaded any more, Password Prompts are spread out over different desktops and do not have an entry in the Taskbar in Gnome. This means that it is necessary to minimize all windows on all virtual desktops to find those password prompts. If one is not found, Evolution can't be closed. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Evolution 2. Wait for about half a day with 10 email accounts and you get those messages Actual results: You get somewhere, most probably hidden, a password prompt. Expected results: No popup or prompt, just a message in a log at the bottom of the Evolution Mailer window. Does this happen every time? Yes!!! Other information: This is actually a real blocker to use Evolution in an efficient way.
This is affecting one of my friend who has 7 imap accounts configured. He is prompted to retype his password several times a day which is very annoying.
This happens both for incomping and outgoing mail.
*** Bug 495198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've seen this still in 3.2.
Still valid with 3.8.x
I'm closing this in a favour of 3.16.x, which has the password prompts internally changed heavily. If anything like that happens again, in 3.16.x, and a spurious password prompt is shown, then it is also pre-populated with a stored password (if any is stored), thus it's easier to skip these password prompts. Nonetheless, the code around also changed significantly and there are not shown such unexpected password prompts anymore - or at least not that often as in time of 3.2.x/3.8.x.