known bug, resolved in CVS already (as of a week ago) On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 16:05 -0500, Kevin wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:26 +0100, guenther wrote: > <snip> > > > 1) Evo refuses to retain an auth mech other than Password in the > > > Receiving Mail tab of the Evolution Account Editor. > > [ snip ] > > > Seems like a big problem to me. > > > > Yet another incarnation of the "storing auth method" bug? > > > > Please check, whether the UI just fails to report the chosen and used > > auth method properly, or if this really is set to password. The auth > > method is stored in GConf /apps/evolution/mail/accounts. > > > > I took a look at the server logs and the authentication that is actually > occuring is definitely plaintext+TLS, so Evolution is definitely doing > it wrong here. Looking at the info in gconf-editor, I don't even see an > auth method stored for accessing the imap server (receiving account). I > see one correctly stored for the transport server, but not the receiving > server. Am I missing something? I'm using gnome 2.8.2. > > > This setting is stored withing the <account> <source> <url> tag, in the > > form user;[EMAIL PROTECTED] IIRC. > > > > I see one like this for smtp but not for imap. True for all of my 10 or > so accounts. > > > > > This bug may be known and already fixed, if it is the same issue I > > remember. In that case, it should be fixed in Evo 2.0.4. > > > > Well, as I said, 2.0.2 was buggy in a similar way (but with smtp and it > was possible to go back in and change it once and it would stick), but > that's been resolved in 2.0.3. Unfortunately, this bug in 2.0.3 is even > worse: it's not even possible to change the setting in Evo and have it > stick. Should I be able to change a key in gconf-editor and have it > stick? If so, what should the entire account key look like (for one > account) in general? > > > > > > 2) Evo won't remember a zero-length password (associated with anonymous > > > IMAP account at cmu). There is no password on the account, and that's > > > what I've entered in Evo, and I've asked evo to remember this password, > > > but it asks me to re-enter it every time I start up. > > > > Oh well, a useless password? :) > > > > Please file it at bugzilla.ximian.com. > > Will do. > > Thanks for your reply , Guenther. > > -Kevin > http://www.gnosys.us > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution >
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