[kde-linux] Persistent Passwords in Kmail?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2015-08-06, 09:59:05, mail at blobel.com wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:54:25 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 2015-08-05, 17:29:08, David Baron wrote:
> > > Every time the Internet connection expires and reconnects, I have to
> > > reenter passwords to kmail. Or to kwallet if this is in use and working.
> > > This is an unholy pain.
> > > 
> > > How can I make the passwords persistent?
> > 
> > Hmm, that should be the default when using KWallet.
> > Maybe the access rules on the wallet did not grant the application
> > permanent access.
> > 
> > I only ever provide my wallet password on login and I have granted all
> > applications that accessed KWallet at some point (KMail, POP3 resource,
> > IMAP resource, etc.) permanent access rights.
> > 
> > Never seen an account password request in over a decade I think :)
> 
> I have 5 pop accounts with two different providers. While the account is
> random, I get them daily.

Interesting.
I have 2 POP3 accounts and 2 IMAP accounts and none of the behaves that way.
The only password I have to type is my GPG passphrase, but that is 
intentional.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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