Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Pete Biggs
Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? Because that's how it's programmed. As to philosophically why it does it, I presume that's because it removes the need for the programmers to implement (and maintain) a secure store for passwords - why do it when there is a gnome

Re: [Evolution] Feedback

2011-01-17 Thread Lailah
El 11/01/11 23:53, Adam Tauno Williams escribi: Other that the above and the slowness Evolution looks to be a very usable product. So thanks to the developers. I really don't experience any "slowness"

Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
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,

[Evolution] Freeze on restore.

2011-01-17 Thread David Chernoff
I recently upgraded from Fedora 10 to 14 and have run into problems restoring my email. 1. Backup under evolution 2.24.5 - evolution-backup.tar.gz in Fedora 10; 2. Restore under evolution 2.32.1 in Fedora 14 - freeze. To be more specific in step 2: 2a. The data directories were successfully

Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Albert Wagner
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:24 +, Pete Biggs wrote: Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? Because that's how it's programmed. As to philosophically why it does it, I presume that's because it removes the need for the programmers to implement (and maintain) a

Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:01 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: And I don't think you need to be particularly experienced with them to let a program use keyrings - it's just an encrypted store of passwords. My login password allows anyone with access to it, including evolution developers, to perform

Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:01 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:24 +, Pete Biggs wrote: Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? Because that's how it's programmed. As to philosophically why it does it, I presume that's because it removes

Re: [Evolution] Search folders are very buggy

2011-01-17 Thread Thomas Mittelstaedt
Am Montag, den 17.01.2011, 07:17 +0200 schrieb Jeremy Nell: I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I've tried everything. I use IMAP+, so I don't have any local mail. I have set up a few search folders, mostly to mimic the labels (Later, To Do, etc). It gives me an easy way to check my

Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Albert Wagner
On 01/17/2011 11:32 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:01 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: And I don't think you need to be particularly experienced with them to let a program use keyrings - it's just an encrypted store of passwords. My login password allows anyone with access

Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:08 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: On 01/17/2011 11:32 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:01 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: And I don't think you need to be particularly experienced with them to let a program use keyrings - it's just an encrypted store

Re: [Evolution] login password

2011-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:08 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: On 01/17/2011 11:32 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:01 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: And I don't think you need to be particularly experienced with them to let a program use keyrings - it's just an encrypted