On Monday 13 February 2012 12:53:59 pm John A. Sullivan III wrote:
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From: "Kristopher John Gamrat" <chaotickjg(a)gmail.com>
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:22:58 PM
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] LXDE, TDE and KMail - can I achieve what I would like to
do?
On Sunday 12 February 2012 03:01:21 pm Lisi wrote:
Hi, Kris.
Thank you for the reply.
On Sunday 12 February 2012 19:06:38 Kristopher John Gamrat wrote:
It is possible to not enter the password in
Kmail, most email clients offer
to store the password.
That is the problem. I can't find a way. But it used to be possible.
Using my instructions (typing it in when setting up the accounts and checking off the
store password option) should work. I've also noticed that when I forget to add the
password at setup, it will come up with a popup asking for the password, and there will be
a checkbox for storing it.
I don't like KWallet. It is just there by
default. Can I safely uninstall
it? And would I then be able to get KMail to store the passwords itself, as
it used to do?
Since Kmail can store your passwords directly, it should not matter whether KWallet is
present or not.
I never tried removing KWallet before now, but Kmail seems to work fine without it. After
removing kwalletmanager-trinity and restarting Kontact (which uses Kmail directly for
email), it did not ask me for a password, neither for sending nor receiving (I don't
like KWallet either, so I don't use it, though I do have it store my passwords). It
might ask you to remove several meta-packages, though I'm not sure which ones
specifically as I manually selected which packages to install (I think I added KWallet by
accident since it was in the suggested packages). Just make sure to check what your
package manager wants to remove first; meta-packages are generally safe to remove since
they are there simply to make it easier to install the real packages in bulk.
If your package manager indicates that it can't be removed safely, then when KWallet
comes up, don't check the box on the second screen of the KWallet wizard that comes up
(on my system, when it came up, I clicked Next, then clicked Finish without touching
anything else in the wizard). Kmail will then ask you if you wish to store the password
unsafely. Once you confirm that you do, it should not ask for the password again, unless
you change the passwords on your configured email accounts (e.g. visiting
google.com,
signing in with your Gmail account, and changing the password in your Account Settings).
<snip>
Sorry - just seeing this thread now. I've never been a great fan of KWallet either
and it creates a nightmare when you change your mail password and it suddenly tried to
login with the old password to every kmail account, kalendar, kaddressbook, etc. account
and locks out for too many failed attempts! However, is there a difference in the way in
which KWallet and KMail store the passwords? I was under the impression the KMail storage
of simply a hash in an rc file was significantly less secure than KWallet - John
Unless you know the algorithm used to produce the hash (MD5 or otherwise), chances are you
won't be able to de-hash it. I'm not exactly sure how KWallet stores passwords,
though I can only guess it uses a better encryption scheme than just a hash.
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Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster