Kwallet, can't open?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 December 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>I have been problems which involved passwords.  While solving those
> problems, I created a new problem.  I can't add to my passwords; I can't
> get into Kwallet.
>
>I finally got kmail to work.  Each time I send an email, I get a request for
> a password.  Immeciately kwallet comes on and makes a request to add the
> mail password.  If I click yes, I get a password from kwallet; when I enter
> any of my many passwords, It doesn't accept them.  I have tried all
> passwords that I can remember, none work.
>
>Is there a way to resolve this problem.  I don't mind losing kwallet and
>having to reinstall my password protected entries, but is there is an easier
>way, that would save a lot of work.  TIA
>
Steven:

Kwallet should, unless the install is broken, only ask you for your personal 
pw once per x session.  Or at least that is how it works here, but I only use 
kmail for processing and sending replies as I long ago set up the combination 
of fetchmail and procmail (which uses spamassassin to rate the mail) to do 
all the pulling via pop3 protocol (actually from 3 accounts), and place the 
mail that survives the filtering into a local inbox that kmail reads and 
sorts.

The was done to combat the fact that kmail, when doing its own mail sucking, 
goes away and leaves the reply composer hanging for extended periods of time 
and you are then typing 'blind'.  This way its only a few milliseconds 
occasionally as kmail sorts and filters to the correct folder at 2 minute 
intervals, whatever fetchmail pulls in, and hands off to procmail as its 
dedicated Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).  This works quite well, but does take a 
bit of effort to configure.

When you have another years experience with linux, this might be something you 
will want to do, but for now kmail can do all that too, but it isn't as well 
threaded as it could be, so you see/feel more of those lags while its doing 
those jobs in the background.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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