On Monday 13 February 2012 8:53:59 am John A. Sullivan III wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kristopher John Gamrat" <chaotickjg@...> > To: trinity-users@... > 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. snip kwalletmanager only manages the 'wallet', it is not the wallet system. Deleting kwalletmanager-trinity won''t delete the wallet subsystem. -- Peace, Greg