kmail and kwallet

[P .NIKOLIC]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:26:10 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Friday 08 February 2013 11:24:05 P .NIKOLIC did opine:
> Message additions Copyright Friday 08 February 2013 by Gene Heskett
> 
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 06:29:06 -0500
> > 
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday 08 February 2013 06:24:38 phanisvara das did opine:
> > > Message additions Copyright Friday 08 February 2013 by Gene
> > > Heskett
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 04:40:44 -0500
> > > > 
> > > > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > > > and kwallet in general can be configured to use no password,
> > > > > > which is perfectly safe on a singl user system. if others
> > > > > > (who you don't trust) use the machine, better keep a
> > > > > > password.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Now that I'd like to do if only the pw requester would steal
> > > > > focus.  It doesn't so its 2 extra mouse clicks, 1 to wake up
> > > > > the mouse and one to change focus, to get focus so you can
> > > > > enter your pw.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 10.04 LTS 32 bit system here.  If you can point me to the
> > > > > right files to edit to get rid of the pw requester, I'd
> > > > > appreciate it.
> > > > 
> > > > i'm afraid i don't understand the problem. if you do what i
> > > > suggested, kwallet won't pop up anymore at all, since there's no
> > > > password to ask from you.
> > > > 
> > > > to do that open the kwallet manager (or whatever it's called),
> > > > usually it sits in your taskbar somewhere. right-clicking on
> > > > the (or any, if you have more than one) allows you to change
> > > > the password. once you set both to "" (blank), there's no
> > > > botheration anymore.
> > > > 
> > > > as was mentioned in a previous thread some time, the passwords
> > > > are still encrypted on disk, but kwallet won't require a
> > > > password once your user is logged into KDE.
> > > 
> > > The problem is, there isn't such a beast on this machine.  It is
> > > whatever that after starting kmail, pops up and asks for my user
> > > pw, when I send the first mail after the start.  It doesn't grab
> > > focus so you wind up typing blind until the click once to wake
> > > the rf mouse up so you can see the pointer move, find the
> > > requester and click once on it.  That is kwallet, but a fairly
> > > diligent search fails to find a configurater for it.
> > > 
> > > Cheers, Gene
> > 
> > Did you tell Kmail to store the passwords as plain text in the
> > config files   always worked for me   .
> > 
> > I always turned kwallet  off it was a PITA  i finally gave up on
> > kmail and this akonadia  thing    Claws Mail is every bit as good
> > which is where i am now .
> > 
> > 
> > Pete .
> 
> I have considered claws, but there seems to be no way to import the
> kmail message corpus. Thats a show stopper as it goes back over 10
> years. Thats in the 10Gb range here.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

Hi Gene 


i seem to remember there is an import utility for Claws mail  but not
sure if it could handle that much mail i have about 1.5Gb  here that
went across ok   , Let me dig thru the archive here see if i can spot
the utility i used ..

Pete .


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