Re: KMail POP account: Cannot change password

Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013 schrieb Jim MacLeod:
> On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 16:58:29 Maurice Batey wrote:
[…]
> > And iof I then enable  KWallet in System Settings, then KWallet keeps
> > butting into KMail sessions.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Anyone know of a solution to this, please ?
> 
> KWallet keeps all settings for POP3 but you can change its password to
> 'blank'  so you don't need to enter anything. Make sure it's not set to
> 'exit when last app closes' and hopefully it should leave you in peace.

And has security implications.

Anyone getting a hold of your wallet has immediate access to all passwords 
in it if you do not protect it with a password.

Your decision of cause, but bank cards has a PIN for a reason :)

I have read about some fixes of KWallet handling in KMail for recent KDE 
versions. But I bet KDE  SC 4.8.5 may not contain these fixes yet.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA  B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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