On ven, 2008-12-19 at 00:39 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Hello, don't understand me wrong and please be a bit more patient. I know > evolution is gnome app and I use it because kde didn't provide exchange > plugin as evolution did (respect). So I'm ready to use anything so that > it's happy and works. > The problem is that it was pretty happy for may be 2y. and I have a lot of > mail saved in evolution, so I don't want to use other apps right now ;-).
By the way, you can export your mail from evolution, to import them in another evolution. There's a backup plugin for that, which will then appear in the File menu. > > The information you gave here brought me to the idea to try one very simple > thing. I removed everything evolution and gnome-keyring realted and > reinstalled. > This didn't help, so I created a new account, logged in and configured > evolution with my exchange account data. It worked! It said it can not > communicate with gnome-keyring. the keyring was not running. I started it > I logged in into my mailbox after creating a passphrase. Nice. > > I changed to my own account. I removed the exchange configuration and ... > deleted .evolution/exchange and the .gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring > > I created a new configuration and logged into my mail account. > As I clicked the checkbox "remember password" it runs the gnome-keyring > prompt to enter or initially to create password key. Because gnome-keyring was running, yes. If you don't want gnome-keyring, remove it, you'll be sure it'll not get in the way (as in the “new account” case). > > This makes me think that your statement that it saves the password to gconf > is not valid at least for, which means that may be I have a problem with > gconf. Well, I'm not really sure it saves it in gconf, but I'm sure it saves it somewhere I'm not interested in when gnome-keyring isn't available. > This would be also a very good explanation why I was not prompted for > keyring password in Suse or kubuntu, though honestly this is my hypothesis. “this” being? > > how do I check this gconf thingie, or better should I ask what exactly > should I check. I remember I used the editor to do configurations in my > personal gconf few years ago. Use gconf-editor and explore, evo settings should be in Apps/Evolution. Oh, and last things: PLEASE LET THE BUG ON CC: DONT ANSWER TO THE LIST. IS THAT CLEAR? -- Yves-Alexis
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