kwallet vs kmail, will somebody please shoot one of them?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/19/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 18 November 2006 03:02, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >On Saturday 18 November 2006 04:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings;
> >>
> >> I'm going batty (its not a long drive) because when I first installed
> >> FC6 and ran kmail I didn't want to fool with kwallet at the time, so I
> >> let kmail save the passwords, presumably in kmailrc.
> >>
> >> But now that I've had a chance to get caught up, I thought I'd see if
> >> this kwallet thingy was usefull.  So I went into the control center
> >> and reenabled it.  After it took the machine down 4 times in a row
> >> trying to save the password, I got tired of that (I do learn fast in
> >> that sort of a situation) and tried to tell it to forget it.  But now
> >> kmail is coming up with a requestor for every message I send, asking
> >> me to allow it to save the password in its own file.  If I click yes,
> >> the mai, is sent, if I cancel, the mail is not sent.  And when I try
> >> to resend it, the new requestor comes up asking for a password and if
> >> I don't cat
> >> my .fetchmailrc so I can copy/paste it, the mail isn't sent.
> >>
> >> I just shut it off again, and hopefully that will be the end of that,
> >> but really, doesn't this utility thats such a PITA have a purpose
> >> except crashing the whole darned box?
> >
> >Gene, there appears to be something very wrong with your install.  As
> > others have said, kwallet works fine.  I've never had it cause any
> > problem whatsoever.
> >
> >Anne
>
> I think this may be related to similar problems I had with kde in general
> when I installed FC2 way back when.  Then, just waving the mouse over a
> printing function in the menu's would kill half of kde and x would have
> to be restarted. I went so far as to build kde from scratch, installing
> 3.3.0 entirely in my root partition, and ran it till 2 weeks ago.  The
> problem wasn't fixed, and it turned out to need a local build of a newer
> version of cups that never did make it into FC2.  But that konstruct
> built and installed kde just sat there and ran, and never, ever suffered
> from any of the gripes folks were squawking about on this list at the
> time.  The only thing that didn't work, ever, was the spell checker, and
> now, with a fresh, from scratch FC6 install, it still isn't working.  Its
> enabled according to the control center settings, but its not correcting
> or otherwise indicating in any way that its running other than a ps -ea
> says its process # 5410 right now.  It does work if I run it from the
> tools pulldown, but I think I've seen it highlighting miss-spelled words
> on other installs.
>
> Anyway, it somewhat OT since kwallet=crashomatic is the subject.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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Something is very wrong with your system...please do not blame kwallet

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