On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 22:28 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: > 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. > Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? No other > application seems to require the password to my Gnome keyring.
?? Dozens of applications use the GNOME keyring; included Nautilus. Install the excellent / awesome / amazing application known as "Seahorse" for a very convenient / easy-to-use / well-designed interface to your key ring and other password and encryption related tools. <http://live.gnome.org/Seahorse>? It is probably packaged for your distribution. The keyring and Seahorse are your friends. Did I mention that Seahorse rocks? If not, it does. Using things like GPG/PGP was awfully hackish until Seahorse rode triumphantly onto the battlefield. I love that application. There are even gedit plugins to easily encrypt / decrypt sections of a text file via a right-click. Sweet. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
