[ubuntu-za] Evolution and keyring

[Arthur Rilke]

On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:26 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
> My computer is at the doctor and so i dug my old one out of retirement
> at put 10.10 on it. I am very impressed with the performance (as long
> as I only do one thing at a time) and love 10.10. When my computer
> gets back from the doctor I will certainly upgrade.
> 
> But to save installation time I decided to go back to Evolution rather
> than use Thunderbird. Evolution still comes out with this exceedingly
> annoying, "The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into
> your computer" at start up.
> 
> There is lots of advice on the web about how to set the keyring
> password to nul. But I don't want to do that. That password is there
> for a purpose. Instead I want to tell Evolution that it does not need
> the keyring because it is not going to use it. (Why would it think
> that I am going to use it when I have already told it that I don't
> want to use any encryption?)

As far as I know, Evolution uses the keyring not only for your
encryption keys (if you have any), but also to save your (pop, imap,
smtp, ...) email account passwords.

>  Or alternatively, I want to unlock it
> when I log in.

This should happen by default. Did you change your Ubuntu user's
password after you installed Ubuntu?

> Is this possible? Or is it back to Thunderbird? (I rather like
> Evolution's integrated Calendar which is why I am struggling with it).
> 
> Bill
>