On 11/05/12 14:36, Adrian Warman wrote:
As far as I know, Thunderbird has no awareness of KDE in general. It is
desktop-platform agnostic. Certainly, using Thunderbird does not result in
any entries in Kwallet. So, most likely when you started Kmail for the
first time, that action initiated the task of putting some data into
Kwallet. I would also guess that since you started Kmail once before, it
may now be trying to start automatically each time you login and as part of
that is asking Kwallet for mail-related passwords.
I don't use Kmail myself, so I can't offer detailed suggestions, but things
I would consider trying:
- Checking to prevent automatic Kmail startup during login.
- Deleting the Kwallet entries for mail (after backing up the contents).
To back up the contents of Kwallet, simply use the File -> Export option.
This allows you to create a clear-text XML file containing all the details
stored in Kwallet. NB: Clear-text means that all passwords are in the
clear, as well!
HTH,
Adrian
On 11 May 2012 10:08, Peter Merchant<[email protected]> wrote:
When I start the computer (kubuntu the latest), I get a prompt for the
kwallet password to allow "Mail of type Imap email server" to run. I don't
know what this is, but I have recently installed Thunderbird, transferred
all my mail from evolution across, and am using that now. I did try to run
kmail, but didn't complete the connection process.
In Kwallet, there are two items under Mailtransports/passwords, but one is
a nine digit number and one is a ten digit number.
Does anyone know how to relate this number to the application so that I
can delete the offender? I hope that if I do that it will stop this logon
prompt and give me a clue to what is the application to remove.
Thanks,
Peter M.
Thanks Adrian,
Actually I think this question was mis-labelled. The problem was that
some startup program was asking to access kwallet, and I assumed that
was because it knew that there was something relevant in Kwallet.
I did as you suggested, backed up kwallet, and then deleted the two
password elements from there. The problem remained so I guess that
sometime soon I might find out what those password elements refereed to.
I then used a suggestion that I found and accessed /etc/xdg/autostart.
In there I found a file with evolution in the name so I deleted that.
--- No effect.
I then went into the system panel, startup settings, service manager,
and stopped kmixd, and also set startup so that on login it did not
restore previous session.
+++++ That seems to have fixed the problem.
So thanks for your help.
Peter Merchant
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