Description of problem: When setting up a new Exchange Server account, the "Receiving Email" page of the Evolution Account Assistant asks for the username and password of the account. Even when "Remember this password" is unchecked, the "New Keyring Password" dialog pops up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Evolution 2. Edit --> Preferences 3. Mail Accounts --> Add --> Forward 4. Fill in "Required information" --> Forward 5. Server type: Microsoft Exchange; fill in "username" and "OWA URL" fields --> Authenticate 6. Supply the requested password; make sure "remember this password" is unchecked Actual results: The evil "choose password for keyring" dialog pops up. You cannot do anything else on your system (such as type stuff into this bug report) until the damn thing is cleared. Expected results: I am allowed to continue setting up my Exchange server account without interference from an evil Gnome app Additional info: I first submitted this bug to the Gnome group. Their response: "it's a compile option. you can either complain to red hat for turning it on or compile evolution yourself." I'm complaining to Red Hat.
Nice. There have been numerous problems with the gnome-keyring package shipped in Fedora 8. Start by trying the workaround described in bug #344611 and let me know if that helps.
It does not "fix" it per se, but at least it no longer stops one dead in one's tracks. The annoying dialog still pops up, but now clicking "deny" in that dialog allows the authentication to Exchange Server to continue, which in turn allows one to continue setting up the account. Now to deal with the bug (reported separately) that prevents more than one Exchange account being set up ...
I think you can set up more than one account but only one can be enabled at once. Not sure why but it's a long-standing issue with the Exchange connector.
It sounds like there's still a UI bug here. The keyring daemon should not pester you if you choose not to remember passwords. Are you still seeing this issue? Also, whomever told you that filing this bug against GNOME is wrong is misinformed. Fedora may be one of the few distros that enables the keyring feature in Evolution, but upstream is still responsible for supporting the feature.
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
You'll probably have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. The behavior is on my work laptop. There was another show-stopper issue that came up with Evolution when it came time for me to change my AD password. Immediately after changing that password, and ever since then, all attempts to log in to my Exchange Server account are rejected as having a bad password -- and my AD account gets locked out because of too many failed attempts and has to be reset. I went through my .gnome directory and deleted any and every thing that looked like it might be caching my passwords, to no avail. Obviously, there are some really serious issues going on with Evolution -- and Gnome -- and I stay a little too busy at work to put any more time into troubleshooting it. I've gone back to Kmail just to get my work done. Kmail has its own set of really serious bugs re: Exchange but at least I am able to see my mail and function. Sort of. In the meantime, my Mac-owning coworkers aren't having any issues at all using Apple's Mail client with our Exchange server. Thanks for your time. I wish I had more time to work on this but I don't.
OK, sorry to hear it. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.