Bug 298119

Summary:	KWallet mandatory
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Philip Nystromer <philip.nystromer>
Component:	config dialog	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	franz.trischberger, montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Philip Nystromer 2012-04-14 14:03:59 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) konqueror/4.7.4 Safari/533.3
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I recently upgraded from KDE 4.4 to 4.7, which includes KMail2
 
I found that I could no longer can configure passwords to my e-mail accounts in KMail2 itself. I am forced to use KWallet. This is not acceptable. I do not want to use KWallet. 
I am extremely annoyed by having to re-type my password every now and then, when KWallet pops up and asks for it. After 8 years of happy KDE usage I am now on the verge to abandon KDE alltogether if this is not fixed soon. 

I suggest that developers implement handling of passwords as they were in versions before KMail2 (i.e. it is possible to configure passwords per e-mail account in the KMail2 application itself) and that the storage of passwords is made as safe as state of the art provides. There has to be a choice if one wants to use KWallet or not.

Reproducible: Always




I run Kmail 4.7.4-r1

Comment 1 Franz Trischberger 2012-04-14 14:17:56 UTC

Then configure kwallet to fit your needs. Go to the settings dialog, there are a few options, when to close kwallet. You can tell kwallet to never close, so you have to type your kwallet-password only once for each kde-session.

Comment 2 Philip Nystromer 2012-04-14 14:38:13 UTC

Franz, 

Thanks for your considerate tip.

But I do not want to type my password for each kde session. I log into my kde-session using a password. And that should be enough. No more password typing after that, for the applications I have configured with passwords. Please.

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2012-04-14 17:19:27 UTC

I very tired to read mail as "After 8 years of happy KDE usage I am now on the verge to abandon KDE alltogether if this is not fixed soon. " if you are not happy use an other "DE"
I don't have time to fix all bugs and I tired to read it.
So Ok perhaps it's a bug, perhaps you don't like it but I am not motivate to fix bug where guy are all the time not happy...

Comment 4 Philip Nystromer 2012-04-14 22:59:17 UTC

If you are not motivated, or have time to fix bugs,  then mayby you should leave the bug fixing to someone else? Especially if you are tired to read about users wishes.

Comment 5 Torgny Nyblom 2012-04-15 09:12:09 UTC

Sett an empty password for the wallet and you are done. No dialog asking for the password.

Comment 6 Christophe Marin 2012-04-15 13:16:50 UTC

Nothing to fix here. KMail2 is designed to use kwallet.

as mentioned in comment #1 and comment #5, KWallet can be set up to not require any password.