On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:47 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: > > Why does Evolution need my login password? I have never seen any other > > application require such a thing, certainly not a mail client. > > It doesn't. It requires the password to your Gnome keyring, which is > where is keeps your mail account passwords. Some people make the keyring > password the same as the login password, which IIRC is detected by the > Gnome system as a special case. Others don't do this. > > poc > Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? No other application seems to require the password to my Gnome keyring. I have no experience with keyrings and such. I have them all disabled on startup.
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