[ubuntu-za] Evolution and keyring

[Arthur Rilke]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Arthur Rilke <arthurrilke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>


This thread might help, especially the last few entries:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515163



>
> > 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
> >
>
>
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