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[kmail2] [Bug 383279] New: Kmail unnecessarily prompts for passwords
Karsten Künne
2017-08-08 14:33:34 UTC
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Bug ID: 383279
Summary: Kmail unnecessarily prompts for passwords
Product: kmail2
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: misc
Assignee: kdepim-***@kde.org
Reporter: ***@rentec.com
Target Milestone: ---

Since I upgraded Kmail from 16.08.2 to 17.04.2 (openSUSE Leap 42.2 to 42.3)
Kmail prompts me for passwords on my IMAP accounts every 10 minutes or so. All
of my IMAP accounts are configured to use GSSAPI authentication and don't use a
password at all (they use my Kerberos ticket for authentication). I have to
click OK with an empty password field in order to make the password window
disappear. This is very annoying and it started with openSUSE 42.3, Kmail
17.04.2. It could also be Akonadi or some other component doing the password
prompting, I can't really tell. The end result is the same for me.
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b***@kde.org
2017-09-14 06:35:03 UTC
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***@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #1 from ***@gmail.com ---
I can confirm this problem in general. Kmail asks for a password at startup or
once I click some folder (not synchronized before) for IMAP account with GSSAPI
auth.

Asking for password every 5-10 minutes was fixed in
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311456

KDE neon 5.10
KDE Plasma 5.10.5
KDE Frameworks 5.38.0
KDE Applications 17.08.1
Qt 5.9.1
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b***@kde.org
2017-09-14 07:10:15 UTC
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--- Comment #2 from ***@gmail.com ---
I think some more places in code should not check password emptiness for GSSAPI
account, for example I can not change subscription right clicking on account in
folders tree.
Probably because of this piece of code
https://cgit.kde.org/kdepim-runtime.git/tree/resources/imap/imapresourcebase.cpp#n262
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markus hetzenecker
2017-11-22 15:49:13 UTC
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--- Comment #3 from markus hetzenecker <***@enveo.at> ---
I confirm this bug, please fix again kmail with GSSAPI.
installed packages:
kf5-plasma-5.40.0-1.fc27.x86_64
kmail-17.08.1-1.fc27.x86_64
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b***@kde.org
2017-12-20 13:00:24 UTC
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--- Comment #4 from ***@gmail.com ---
The bug still present in kdepim-runtime 17.12.0-0neon+16.04+xenial+build38

It asks password once on startup.
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Karsten Künne
2018-08-10 14:47:10 UTC
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--- Comment #5 from Karsten Künne <***@rentec.com> ---
It got better in kmail-17.12.3 (Leap 15.0) but it still occasionally prompts
for password despite GSSAPI authentication. I think I got the prompt on startup
and sometimes if I click "Check Mail" or so.
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b***@kde.org
2018-09-07 04:38:05 UTC
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--- Comment #6 from ***@gmail.com ---
It is still valid in 18.08.1
kdepim-runtime/xenial,now 4:18.08.1-0xneon+16.04+xenial+build64 amd64
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