Bug 170828

Summary:	Question where to store passwords has misleading confirmation buttons
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Richard Hartmann <richih-kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	anderslund, drotos, ruchir.brahmbhatt
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	1.11.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Richard Hartmann 2008-09-10 23:36:47 UTC

Version:           1.10.1 (using 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1.1), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.26-1-686

I am filing as bug as this can lead to wrong storage.

I don't know the exact wording by heart, but basically, you are asked 'KWallet is not available, should KMail store the password in its own config files?'

You get 'Store password' and 'Do not store password' as options which is not ideal. I just clicked 'Store password' by accident and will now need to hunt down the option to use KWallet again.

By the way, KMail of KDE3 used to wait forever for KWallet to open, which changed. This is, in my opinion, a Very Bad Thing (which I will file a wishlist against now).

Comment 1 Richard Hartmann 2008-09-10 23:50:23 UTC

Cross-reference for the benefit of anyone reading this: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170830

Comment 2 Marton Drotos 2008-10-30 15:30:11 UTC

I think this is one aspect of this more generic issue:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149999

Comment 3 A. Spehr 2009-03-15 23:27:44 UTC

*** Bug 180229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2009-04-17 14:39:39 UTC

Yes the behavior is confusing.

Comment 5 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 09:53:55 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.