[Bug 297615] New: Akonadi asks for wallet password even though no kmail2 has not been started

[Paul Gover]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297615

            Bug ID: 297615
          Severity: normal
           Version: 4.8
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: Akonadi asks for wallet password even though no kmail2
                    has not been started
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: pmw.gover at yahoo.co.uk
          Hardware: Gentoo Packages
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: Akonadi

I use korganizer, and in particular kmail2 to handle my email.  I have three
accounts, all POP3, with different servers.  Some time after booting my machine
a dialog box suddenly pops up, asking form my wallet password, for the first of
my email accounts - but I have NOT started kmail2 and it is not running.  A
little later, I get the prompt for the second account.  Then the third.  I
still have not started kmail2 (and, for clarity, it's not been restarted after
closing an earlier KDE session without closing kmail2).

My guess it's the automatic "interval mail checking", and the requests for
password  follow the 3 different times I have set for the 3 accounts.  I do
have "Enable interval mail checking" selected for each account.  I'd be happy
if kmail2 were running, but it isn't, and it's annoying (and worrying) that I
get an unexpected request for the wallet password.

It didn't do this before about KDE 4.7 - I can't say for sure when it started,
but it's about then.  It's still there in 4.8, as I updated KDE yesterday.

It may be irrelevant, but something strange is also happening related to the
chromium web browser.  I let it store its web passwords in the KDE wallet (it
creates a binary store, called "Chrome form data").  If chromium is running
before I start kmail2, and if chromium has already asked for the wallet
password, then starting kmail2 does NOT ask for a wallet password, and kmail2
happily retrieves my email.  I presume chromium is doing something naughty
here, and not scoping its use of the wallet properly.

I think this bug has already been reported as #292544, but I don't think the
developer concerned understood what the issue was.  Certainly the bypasses
there don't address the problem, which is Akonadi asking for the wallet
password even though kmail2 has not been started and is not running.  That bug
report was for IMAP accounts, whereas I'm hitting it with POP3 accounts.

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