Bug 231050

Summary:	Evolution does not maintain user pop account passwords during update installation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Scott Couston <scott>
Component:	Evolution	Assignee:	Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	A Nagappan <anagappan>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jrobiso2, simonedice
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	.jpg screen shot showing passwords not retained

Description Scott Couston 2006-12-29 04:27:56 UTC

Evolution. After an upgrade when you first open Evolution the application does not retain the passwords for all the pop3 accounts from the prior installation of 10.1.

This is further compounded by the application NEVER retaining the passwords for the POP3 accounts despite the tick box 'remember password' being activated.

The user needs to enter the account password for every single send and receive process after update. This renders the application basically unusable.

Comment 1 Scott Couston 2006-12-29 04:30:35 UTC

Created attachment 111175 [details]
.jpg screen shot showing passwords not retained

Comment 2 Scott Couston 2007-01-02 16:24:46 UTC

Further testing. Evolution now maintains its passwords for pop accounts in the keyring of a Gnome install.

In other words if you want to use Evolution - you are confined to using a Gnome Desktop

Comment 3 Martin Ament 2007-01-02 19:29:46 UTC

I think this is a Duplicate of Bug 222479

And i think it is no good idea to force using gnome.

This means for all the KDE-Users evolution is not a chance...

This is no good idea, even if the solution are only some lines of code as described in: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222479#c44

Comment 4 Scott Couston 2007-01-02 21:21:46 UTC

I think Martin is correct, however I cannot understand why bug 222479 which was a beta2 and rc1 bug is still outstanding when there has been a final release??/???

Comment 5 Harish Krishnaswamy 2007-01-16 03:29:46 UTC

*** Bug 235259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-02-07 07:57:14 UTC

http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution-data-server/trunk/libedataserverui/e-passwords.c?rev=7590&r1=7584&r2=7590&makepatch=1&diff_format=u

This patch falls back to file if keyring is not available. This will be pushed into autobuild. Im closing this as dupe of 222479.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 222479 ***

Comment 7 Jonathon Robison 2007-02-09 14:45:44 UTC

Srinivasa, can you tell us when an update will come out for our 10.2 installs? Until then, evolution is pretty useless (and running gnome-keyring-daemon in a KDE environment doesn't fix it either).

Comment 8 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-02-09 18:06:50 UTC

Jonathon, Today I have pushed the patch to autobuild. Looks like I have to get an SWAMP ID and resubmit it again. Should be availabe pretty soon.

Comment 9 Jonathon Robison 2007-02-21 15:19:32 UTC

Hmm....Nothing on the update servers yet!