On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:29 -0600, Dustin D. Trammell wrote: > Before submitting this as a bug, I thought I would check here first. > After a quick search of the archives, I have found some various threads > already involving gnome keyring[1][2][3][4], however all of those issues > relate to Evolution not being able to access the keyring at all, the > keyring daemon not being started, etc., which is not my problem. > > My Evolution can access the gnome keyring just fine, however it can only > seem to ever store a maximum of two passwords in it at any given time. > My current setup involves two mail accounts, each with a POP3 password > and an SMTP password, thus a total of 4 passwords. If I check mail on > both accounts, Evolution prompts for and stores in the keyring the two > POP3 passwords required. It continues to retrieve mail fine with the > stored passwords until I send mail from either account. When I send > mail, Evolution prompts for the SMTP password, stores it, and drops one > of the POP3 passwords. I can continue to send mail from the account > previously used and it works fine using the stored password, however if > I want to send from the other account or check mail for the account > who's POP3 password it dropped, it prompts for those passwords and drops > others. Essentially, it's only storing the last two passwords that I've > actually used. > > Has anyone else run into this problem? I originally thought this may be > a problem with gnome keyring and have nothing to do with Evolution, but > searches along those lines have turned up nothing. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list@gnome.org/msg05173.html > [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list@gnome.org/msg05042.html > [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list@gnome.org/msg04036.html > [4] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-12/msg01728.html
Dustin, I had the keyring problem, which I got past via use of pam_keyring - your problem is one I didn't come across when I was researching the issue I had. Are you using pam_keying? I posted a short procedure on 12 Jan to this list, if that helps. Des -- Des Dougan, Principal Dougan Consulting Group Ph: 604-980-2848 Email: des at DouganConsulting dot com www.DouganConsulting.com Design - Implementation - Support _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list