[kdepim-users] KMail forgets POP/SMTP password

[O. Sinclair]

On 03/09/2012 20:40, Pastor JW wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 12:44 AM, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 01/09/2012 00:06, Pastor JW wrote:
>
>>>
>>> If it didn't corrupt other data files as well you are very lucky.  As I
>>> mentioned earlier, we lost a lot of data which is much more important to
>>> us than a mailer.  Because kmail, which we used fine for many years,
>>> won't keep the passwords we had to abandon it.
>>>
>> without being an expert but a user of KDE /kubuntu since 7.04 version I
>> can say this is unheard of. I have had to recreate my wallet once in all
>> these years and how would that make me lose data? I frankly do not
>> understand, perhaps you could describe what has happened? I am asking
>> because I have never heard of anything like it in these 5 years of using
>> KDE and kwallet.
>
> We started with the 7.10 distro which was pre-installed on the Dell
> laptops.  We upgraded it to KDE the day after they arrived and then to
> the LTS when it came out a couple months later.  Kmail was used from the
> start but we had to change over to T-bird now because of Kmail's lack of
> keeping the passwords in 12.04.  By recovered the logs on two machines,
> Kwallet was the cause of bad catastrophic crashes on several laptops
> which in turn left a drive full of corrupted files.  At the time we
> attempted to work with the Kwallet people to correct the problems but
> were told, "don't use it then".  So we didn't and have had zero crashes
> since.  However, for me, being forced to use a program in Linux really
> is a wrong concept.  We use Ubuntu BECAUSE we can set our system up the
> way it works best for us.
>

have never heard of anything like this but I guess all is possible. It 
should be possible to use KMail without KWallet though even though it is 
not the "recommended" method. It is now so long ago I set up KMail with 
accounts that I don't quite recall but I think you get a question if you 
want to use KWallet or not?

However, the problem that started this discussion is that KMail in KDE 
4.9 seem to forget at least the SMTP password, regardless of wallet or 
not. I have to type it in once a day or so, not that it bothers me lot 
but it is a bug for sure.

Regards
Sinclair
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