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Bug 638721 - Evolution: Storing of mail account ...
Evolution: Storing of mail account ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 603855
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: BugBuddyBugs
2.30.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Triage Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-05 07:04 UTC by Marcus Zurhorst
Modified: 2011-01-05 10:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30



Description Marcus Zurhorst 2011-01-05 07:04:48 UTC
Storing of mail account passwords:
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I have, besides others, one free email account, and thus, the provider limits me to one pop3 fetch per 15min period.
Everytime I'm unpatient and try to enforce the send/receive process before this time span is over, Evolution fails to proceed for this particular mail account.
Then, it displays a popup window and asks for my password for this account.

Even if I close Evolution and open it the other day, the password for this freemail account is not stored any longer!

Can you please fix this? - This behavior is in Evolution for quite long, and it was one of the reasons I didn't like Evolution some years ago.
Now I'm back, and it immediately start to be annoying ;-)

My expectation:
If user chooses to store the password, it should be stored "forever", and it should not be lost when a certain communication with the server is unsuccessful.
(one may discuss whether it makes sense to un-set the password for the case that the server tells:  pw wrong or so,  but this is a corner case, I guess)

Thanks a lot!
Regards, Marcus


Distribution: Mandriva Linux release 2010.2 (Official) for i586
Gnome Release: 2.30.0 2010-03-31 (Mandriva)
BugBuddy Version: 2.30.0
Comment 1 Akhil Laddha 2011-01-05 10:01:50 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 603855 ***