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

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On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:04, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>On 11/19/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
>> message by Gene Heskett are:
>> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>
>Something is very wrong with your system...please do not blame kwallet
>
I wouldn't, if it didn't reboot me instantly when I try to bring it into 
use.  What file should I rm to get it back to a sqaure one startup?

>--
>Fedora Core 6 and proud

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.


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