Bug 132468

Summary: kmail asks everytime it is closed if each password should be saved, an may lose passwords
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Forgotten User XG9X5w8kVa <forgotten_XG9X5w8kVa>
Component: KDEAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Attachments: patch to avoid kmail's passwords usability nightmare

Description Forgotten User XG9X5w8kVa 2005-11-05 13:44:06 UTC 
If you have a wallet for web passwords, but don't want to save there your mail passwords, everytime kmail is closed (or account configuration is changed) it will try to open the wallet, so kdewallet will ask you the password, and it will ask, for each password, if the password should be saved on kmail's config file. It is easy to hit enter and, since the default is not to save the password, you'll lose the password. And, if kde is closed with kmail open, it will lose all your passwords.
This is a really serious usability problem.

How to reproduce:
Activate kdewallet with some password, and close it.
Open kmail and create a pop account, tell it to save the password. After finishing, it will try to open kdewallet to save the password there. Cancel kdewallet so the pasword should be saved on kmail config file. A dialog will popup asking for confirmation, so click on "save". Close kmail.
Open kmail, close kmail, kdewallet password will be asked again. Cancel. The confirmation dialog will popup again. If you have created more than one account, one dialog for each account will popup.
Open kmail. Close kde. All passwords will be lost.
Comment 1 Forgotten User XG9X5w8kVa 2005-11-05 13:47:52 UTC 
Created attachment 56549 [details]
patch to avoid kmail's passwords usability nightmare

This little patch will solve the described passwords nightmare making the popup confirmation only once.
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2005-11-24 10:24:30 UTC 
please report upstream at bugs.kde.org
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:34:01 UTC 
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:35:41 UTC 
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:41:33 UTC 
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:53:01 UTC 
Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(