On Friday 23 October 2009 20:30:46 Mick wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 10:05:33 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > Hmm ... wonder if this is also why > > > kdewallet (or modern equivalent) is no longer there? > > > > The KDE4 still has the kdewallet which I find quite useful. As I started > > my KDE4 setup from scratch, I saved the wallet with KDE3.5 and imported > > that in KDE4. > > It seems that the kwallet does not perform as expected: > > With 3.5 I would fire up kmail (remember I am running xdm/fluxbox not > kdm/kwin) and when I clicked on 'Check Mail' it caused kwallet to launch > and ask me once for the master passwd. > > With kmail4 this does not happen. The kmail application asks for passwords > separately for each account of mine without kwallet being launch at all ... > until I click to send a message! Then it launches fine and asks for the > master password. > > I can't call this a bug - but I find it problematic to have to enter 3-4 > account passwds instead of just one.
SOunds like you did not select the "store password" check box in the kmail account config dialog. Without a wallet acive, it will try to read passwords from kmailrc (IIRC) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
