I have set up a pop3 mail server under Akonadi for each of the mail servers I use (my internet provider default, google and yahoo).
Roughly every third time I start Kmail, the yahoo pop3 password needs to be reeintered. Why does it get forgotten by akonadi?
I reenter the password and the mail is checked, and then, a day or three later, the same thing again. This has been going on for weeks, perhaps months. I have ignored it, but it is frustrating. What is going on?
Peter G. wrote:
Roughly every third time I start Kmail, the yahoo pop3 password needs to be reeintered. Why does it get forgotten by akonadi?
It is too early to tell, but I changed from pop.mail.yahoo.ca to pop.mail.yahoo.com and, so far, I have had no further problems.
Peter G. wrote:
It is too early to tell, but I changed from pop.mail.yahoo.ca to pop.mail.yahoo.com and, so far, I have had no further problems.
It just happened with yahoo.com. This time, the password was still there and I just had to click ok. Usually, the field is blank.
I will monitor.
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:56:08 -0700 "Peter G. " pgueckel@gmail.com wrote:
Peter G. wrote:
It is too early to tell, but I changed from pop.mail.yahoo.ca to pop.mail.yahoo.com and, so far, I have had no further problems.
It just happened with yahoo.com. This time, the password was still there and I just had to click ok. Usually, the field is blank.
I will monitor.
It is not just kmail. I have this problem with claws-mail but only under KDE and only my gmail account. None of my other accounts have this problem. It does seem to come and go, sometimes a week or so will go by without a problem and then it will start and not stop until I log into another desktop (I have several and it does not matter which one). Peter
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:37:01 -0700 Peter Reed peterreed@gmx.com wrote:
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:56:08 -0700 "Peter G. " pgueckel@gmail.com wrote:
Peter G. wrote:
It is too early to tell, but I changed from pop.mail.yahoo.ca to pop.mail.yahoo.com and, so far, I have had no further problems.
It just happened with yahoo.com. This time, the password was still there and I just had to click ok. Usually, the field is blank.
I will monitor.
It is not just kmail. I have this problem with claws-mail but only under KDE and only my gmail account. None of my other accounts have this problem. It does seem to come and go, sometimes a week or so will go by without a problem and then it will start and not stop until I log into another desktop (I have several and it does not matter which one). Peter
Oh look there is the problem again. Definitely something fishy going on. Was not even a day it it has failed again. Something is definitely wrong with kde. Peter
Peter Reed wrote:
Oh look there is the problem again. Definitely
something fishy going on.
Was not even a day it it has failed again. Something
is definitely
wrong with kde.
Ok. Thanks, Peter.
I nobody ever mentioned it before, so I was wondering whether this is happening on others' computers, too.
You mentioned in the previous post that "sometimes a week or so will go by without a problem and then it will start and not stop until I log into another desktop." I use suspend/resume for about 3-4 days, multiple times a day, before fully rebooting the computer. This could be related. Perhaps even just a login/logout might cure it?
Peter G. wrote:
It is too early to tell, but I changed from pop.mail.yahoo.ca to pop.mail.yahoo.com and, so far, I have had no further problems.
It just happened with yahoo.com. This time, the password was still there and I just had to click ok. Usually, the field is blank.
I will monitor.
If you get a password prompt from a mail client despite a saved password, that usually means that the connection attempt failed, so it's giving you a chance to fix your password just in case that that was the problem.
Mail servers can fail your connection attempts for several reasons: too frequent connections, some transient server-side issue, etc.
Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler wrote:
If you get a password prompt from a mail client despite
a saved password,
that usually means that the connection attempt failed,
so it's giving you
a chance to fix your password just in case that that
was the problem.
Thanks! Yes, I think this is the likely description of the problem. I haven't had any issues for a few days now.
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