Evolution problem: passwords are demanded and then ignored.

Asked by John Sloan

I use Evolution on Ubuntu 7.10 with 2 POP accounts that I use for receiving email from my local ISP.

If I exit Evolution with the "Inbox" selected, then when I restart Evolution, I get a dialog box prompting me to "Enter password for <pop account #1>". If I enter the correct password and click OK, then I get another similar dialog box prompting me to "Enter password for <pop account #2>". If I enter the correct password, then click OK, then I get another dialog box "Enter password for <pop account #1>" and so on all over again until I finally get tired and click "cancel" on both dialog boxes.

After all that, I then click "Send/Receive" and Evolution cheerfully goes out and gets my mail with no problems, so I know the passwords stored in Evolution are correct.

Other information:

1) If I exited Evolution with a different email folder selected, I do not get these requests for the email password when I restart Evolution and it all works fine. ONLY if Evolution opens up with the "Inbox" selected as the current folder does it have a problem.

2) I have tried this with the Spamassassin filter turned on with "remote tests" enabled and with all junk filtering turned "off", but it makes no difference.

John Sloan

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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John Sloan (john-sloan) said :
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Anyone?

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Best Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said :
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Thanks for your question.

You might experience bug #86670. If that description does not describe your problem, you should think of opening a bug report.

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John Sloan (john-sloan) said :
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Thanks Markus Thielmann, that solved my question.

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harcesz (harcesz) said :
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I got a similar problem, possibly same thing - since few days evo is asking from passwords each time it attempts to download emails, which is quite problematic with different 7 email - apparently sometimes it works and memories them, other times it just 'drops' them

ubuntu 8.04 evo 2.22.1.1