mail / gmail applet doesn't remember account details after reboot / logout

[Uri Shabtay]

The mail applet is superbly functional, and works well when configuring a Gmail account. Yet, when logging out/rebooting - the applet resets itself - and i need to insert my details again.. every time.

[Mark Lee (malept)]

Thanks for filing a bug.

For future reference, this is a bug against the mail applet, which is a part of the Awn Extras project. Please file any other bugs that you find against this applet in the Awn Extras bug tracker.

[onox (onox)]

Fixed in revision 1327.

[onox (onox)]

Oh, I guess I haven't implemented some "Save password" checkbox after all. Is it that the mail applet used to save the password and does not do that anymore? Because in the revision I've committed I fixed the resetting of the preferences window. Not sure whether you meant that too.

[Uri Shabtay (uri.shabtay)]

thanks, Mark, I'll pay attention next time :)
onox, is this fix, once committed, will be uploaded to the core version (the one that is in the Ubuntu 10.04 repos., for instance), or I'll have to add the ppa?

BTW, thanks for the quick response!

[onox (onox)]

I think you have to add the ppa for now. But there's no fix atm. I asked a question in my previous comment, could you answer it?

[Uri Shabtay (uri.shabtay)]

onox, the mail applet - as far as i know - haven't saved my password before (i returned to AWN after a clean install of 10.04). it was like this ever since i began using 0.4 from the repos.

[onox (onox)]

Ok, then someone should add a "Save password"/"Remember password" checkbox or something and save it via (preferably) gnome-keyring.

[MisterBlack (thesympsons)]

#6 I think I have the same problem here, but I realize if I log out and back in, the applet remember my username/password perfectly (for all the 4 instances), so I guess it could be a problem of reading the data before some services have been loaded. Hope it helps

[Uri Shabtay (uri.shabtay)]

MisterBlack, i tried something similar, and noticed the applet REMEMBERS my info as long as i write my user name WITHOUT the @gmail dot com. Maybe now the dev. should just add a note: "write your username only", etc. and "AWN will remember your account details"

[Gabor Karsay (gabor-karsay)]

This is probably fixed in revision 1502 but i'm not completely sure I understand the problem. If you say "log out and reboot" do you mean log out from your Gmail account or log out from your Gnome (or whatever desktop environment) session? The first one (logging out from email account) should be fixed, password is not lost.

Uri Shabtay, logging in with or without "@gmail.com" should make no difference.

Please try again with the next PPA (not the actual one with bzr1500 in the name; this will take some time).