kwallet vs kmail, will somebody please shoot one of them?

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 18 November 2006 04:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I'm going batty (its not a long drive) because when I first installed FC6
> and ran kmail I didn't want to fool with kwallet at the time, so I let
> kmail save the passwords, presumably in kmailrc.
>
> But now that I've had a chance to get caught up, I thought I'd see if this
> kwallet thingy was usefull.  So I went into the control center and
> reenabled it.  After it took the machine down 4 times in a row trying to
> save the password, I got tired of that (I do learn fast in that sort of a
> situation) and tried to tell it to forget it.  But now kmail is coming up
> with a requestor for every message I send, asking me to allow it to save
> the password in its own file.  If I click yes, the mai, is sent, if I
> cancel, the mail is not sent.  And when I try to resend it, the new
> requestor comes up asking for a password and if I don't cat
> my .fetchmailrc so I can copy/paste it, the mail isn't sent.
>
> I just shut it off again, and hopefully that will be the end of that, but
> really, doesn't this utility thats such a PITA have a purpose except
> crashing the whole darned box?
>
Gene, there appears to be something very wrong with your install.  As others 
have said, kwallet works fine.  I've never had it cause any problem 
whatsoever.

Anne
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