[ale] weird kmail issue

Jim Philips philips_jim at bellsouth.net
Sun Dec 7 09:39:25 EST 2008


On Sunday 07 December 2008 06:38:33 Paul Cartwright wrote:
> so, I get up this morning, go to check mail and there is an ominous window
> open asking for my SMTP password... saying kwallet isn't
> open...something... so I stop & restart kmail, and it starts asking me for
> passwords, not a good sign. So I log out & back in, no kwallet window like
> usual ;(
> I click on the check mail window, and there are only 4 accounts, just my
> local and POP accounts, no IMAP. All of my IMAP accounts are gone...
> close kmail, go to my backup folder where it backup up my /home last night,
> copy kmailrc back over to my ~/.kde/share/config restart kontact, and they
> are back...
> doesn't seem like anything else was touched.. kat paws on the keyboard?
> wife snooping around my email?
> thank goodness I have a backup! recreating those accounts is a real pain!

I have had repeated problems with Kwallet and ended up just ripping it out 
altogether. I have fewer problems without it.


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