Does it use Gnome-keyring to store the Gmail password

Thanks Owais Lone, that solved my question.

It is just that your email account can hold valuable account information, like bank accounts.

Thanks hopefully waiting for it to use Gnome-keyring.

I was just sitting around and watching The Big Bang Theory so I thought of doing this. GmailWatcher 10.7.12 will store passwords in the keyring. I've published it to my ppa and it's building right now, should be available in a few hours.

cool, will check it out

I have the problem that every time after my computer has booted, notifications appear that Gmailwatcher (10.07.19) could not check my accounts because it does not know my password anymore.

What could be the solution? I have the program autostart when booting, as activated in the settings of Gmailwatcher.

Remove and add the account again

Didn't work for me as I haven't set up a password for the keyring ( I think I selected deny or 'do not use any password' ). The problem is that every time I boot, I have to open gmailwatcher, go to the properties, enter the gmail account password and unlock the non-existing keyring (I have to enter my user passwd) on every single boot. Extremely annoying bug...

I'll add an option to not use gnome-keyring. That should solve it, but make it less secure.

Thank you :)

Great, that would be awesome. Just make sure passwords are not stored in plain text but using a (simple) encrypt/decrypt method.

@DanielV: That is what the keyring is for.

1: If autologin is enabled.
2: If user password is different than keyring password.

Is that the case with you?

@DanialV: Just ignore the previous comment. :P

The problem with keyring occurs because in these two scenarios:

1: If autologin is enabled.
2: If user password is different than keyring password.

Is that the case with you?

The password will be stored in couchdb if the user does not want to use gnome-keyring.

I just uploaded the latest version to my ppa. Should be available in a few hours for Maverick and Lucid.

Thank you so much :)

Have you looked into using OAuth instead of storing the password? Some links:

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/03/oauth-access-to-imapsmtp-in-gmail.html
http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/oauth/

Yes, I'm planning to use OAuth soon.