[kdepim-users] [Kde-pim] SMTP password saving problem and Solution

[Marc Deop]

On Thursday 05 April 2012 09:36:53 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> Sometime after the 4.8.1 update I ran into the dreaedd SMTP password will ot 
> save problem. I'd send an email, the SMTP password prompt would popup, I'd 
> enter the password, check the "Remember SMTP password" box, click Ok and 
> eveything would be ok for that session. *Until* I restarted akonadi (or 
> rebooted), then whole process would start over again.
> 
> 
> Well today remembered a similar old Kmail 1.x password problem:
> 
>   http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Problem:_Cannot_save_SMTP_password_-
> _kwallet_is_unavailable
> 
> 
> And tried that:
> 
> - went into kwalletmanager|settings|Configure Wallet and deleted "Mail 
> Dispatcher Agent" from the list.
> 
> - Restarted akonadi
> 
> - Sent an email.
> 
> - Got a kwallet msg box that "Mail Dispatcher Agent" needed access, checked 
> and applied "allow always"
> 
> - Got an Akonadi SMTP password prompt. Entered, checked "remember password" 
> and applied.
> 
> - Mail Sent ok
> 
> - Restarted Akonadi. Sent an email. no password prompt
> 
> - Rebooted, sent an email, no password prompt.
> 
> Problem seems to be solved.
> 
> I'd say its exactly the same problem Kmail 1.x was getting - glitch with 
> kwallet, only akonadi is not passing on the error message for display 
> ("kwallet_is_unavailable"), if it had I would have solved this a lot earlier. 
> Perhaps the devs could give some thought to that?
> 

Thanks for the info Lindsay, I've tried it an everything seems fine now  :)

Regards,

Marc Deop
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