evolution forgets password after LOGIN fail

[aj]

Binary package hint: evolution

Hi...

I am not sure why - but since I use Ubuntu 9.04 I get asked for the password regularly. It's not like every time I use evolution. But every now an then. There must have been an issue regarding the gnome-keyring in ubuntu 9.04 alpha4 - but this seems solved though.

The problem is more fundamental:
Every time a login fails the password will be erased. This sucks big time since there are some mail services around (eg. gmx.de) which will not allow more than a limited number of logins per time. If you are logging in to frequently - maybe during testing and relogin (evolution is a start application) or may it be as you where awaiting an urgent message and have clicked "Receive / Send" too often - your password will be erased.

Chances are good that the password will not change too often. So I think it is a good idea to define it in the profile settings. That makes it possible to change it afterwards and there is no need for a password request anymore. The password should then never be erased.

The current behavior has also another drawback:
If you are away with your notebook and the password gets erased - you will only be able to use evolution if you have the password at hand. On the other hand if you have it with you - the password might be useless at all - since everybody can use it (in case you don't use a password safe).

If the password is invalid a warning will be displayed in the new errorlog (I really like this feature - thanks again!). The user has to change the password manually.

With this changes there should be no more annoying password request dialogs.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's known upstream you can track the progress here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571504 and feel free to comment there where the software authors can read about your concerns, thanks.

[philinux (philcb)]

Just started using evolution instead of TB and it forgot all passwords for accounts after a hibernate session.

It also wanted a keyring password.

I'm using 9.04 fully up to date.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Is somebody still getting this with Lucid?

[christopher pijarski (kpijarski)]

I had problems with that from time to time in Karmic, but in Lucid this happens to me every day now. I have 6 mail accounts so this is a real nuisance. I hope the fix will be in the repos soon.

[J (jonathan-vola)]

The gnome bug states a fix was committed in gnome-2-23, but lucid with gnome-2-30 still has this bug: The "Fixed" report is inaccurate?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I marked this a duplicate of bug #245589, which will be fixed in Ubuntu 10.10. Thanks for reporting.