[Kde-pim] kmail dispatcher agent is not remembering my SMTP password

[John Aldrich]

On Thu December 20 2012 3:40:35 PM salamandir wrote:
> On Thursday, December 20, 2012 06:02:12 PM, John Aldrich, an eminent
> 
> manifestation of divinity, wrote:
> > Odd. Do you have a little "wallet" icon in the system tray? If so,
> > that's your wallet and if you cancel the send when it prompts for a
> > password the first time, it should retrieve the password from the
> > wallet after that.
> 
> after rebooting (i thought you didn't have to do that with linux), the KDE
> Wallet Manager appears in the systray, although it is hidden by default.
> 
> now:
> 
> 1: configure kmail -> accounts -> sending -> choose account and click
> "Modify" 2: enter password and click "Store SMTP password" and click "OK"
> 3: click "New message", enter a valid recipient address and message
> 4: click "Send"
> 5: quit kontact
> 6: shut down computer
> 7: restart computer
> 8: restart kontact and sign in
> 9: click "New message", enter a valid recipient address and message
> 10: click "Send"
> 
> EXPECTED RESULT: the message gets sent
> 
> ACTUAL RESULT: a message window from "Mail Dispatcher Agent" that says "You
> need to supply a username and password to use this SMTP server"
> 
> 11: click "Cancel" in the "Mail Dispatcher Agent" window
> 12: double-click the unsent message in the outbox and click "Send"
> 
> RESULT: mail is sent.
>
Yeah. That's pretty much my experience. However, you shouldn't have to do that 
more than once, or just wait for the unsent message to get automatically sent 
on the next automatic retry.
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