I'm on 11.10 now and the bug is still present and has annoyed me for several Ubuntu versions.
The problem seems to occur when the mail server responds with some kind of error because it has a problem. I have 4 Evolution installations that use the same provider. When the mail service of my provider breaks down evolution starts to ask for passwords - maybe because my provider rejects my credentials due to some malfunction. If the service is back up however Evolution should try to use the original password again. The password dialog should never open once a successful authentication has been established for the first time. There should only be a dialog to inform the user that the service can not be logged into right now. Please finally fix this bug - thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255768 Title: evolution asking for a password, even though it should be remembered Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool: Unknown Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: evolution I have an imap account set up in evolution. the password is set to remember, and has been working fine for weeks. It has also been working fine today. then all of a sudden evolution pops up a "Enter Password for myname@myserver" "Please enter the password for myname on host myserver" why has it forgotten my password all of a sudden? My suspicion is that authentication failed once (maybe the server was busy for a minute), and now it thinks my password is wrong. If this is so it should have a message like: "authentication failed, maybe you have changed you password on the server. do you wish to keep trying with the old password, or enter a new password" this is evolution 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1 on hardy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/255768/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
