default evolution keyring

Hi Peter, I had this problem as well with gnome and it seems to be a problem if you have auto log in at startup, I do, so I type in my log in password... very annoying so I changed to thunderbird... not a fix but perhaps a work around

Hello peter:

System->Preferences->Encyption and Keyrings then
highlight the password keyring "login" then click Remove Keyring then reboot.

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

This worked for me when the same problem started after I made a new install of AMD64 Intrepid Alpha 6:

I went to /home/(yourname)/.gnome2/keyrings and deleted the two files inside the folder.
The next time I ran Evolution it popped up a box asking me for the passwords for all our accounts, and then asked for a new keyring password. I hit enter without putting a password in, and it gave me a warning about security, blah, blah (this is a home computer, not the CIA), I clicked the use insecure password message, and the problem has gone away.

IS IT AN EVOLUTION PROBLEM (?1) OR A LINUX/UBUNTU SECURITY PROBLEM (?2) OR BOTH (?3) ???
My thanks to Bruce Crowther - his solution is the one that worked for me.
My case was different though. I had Evolution / Ubu 9.04 on a IBM T40 laptop and I BACKED-UP my EVOLUTION context on a regular basis to an external hard disk : it has never mentioned any keyring at any time. When the T40 HDD died, I restored my user context on another laptop (Ubu 9.04 too) and RESTORED my last EVOLUTION backup to my id ... and from then on I started getting plagued by the KEYRING question every time I restarted EVOLUTION. I had to enter the passwords for my (5) email accounts and since those pw never got memorized I had to re-enter them at every restart BECAUSE NO PW I KNEW WOULD EVER UNLOCK THAT KEYRING (Peter's situation).

IS ANYONE WORKING ON GETTING THIS "PROBLEM" SOLVED
OR DO I HAVE TO LOG IT AS AN "ISSUE" ??

I think this is a feature rather than a bug. If someone turns on your system because it is set up to autologin, they can't get into your e-mail without a password. Just guessing, here.

I am new to all of this and not tech minded at all. My son installed Ubuntu and Mozilla Firefox on our computer because we kept getting viruses with Windows. I have Evolution email and am able to get the incoming working, with the help of the provider, but cannot get the outgoing email to work because it keeps asking for the default keyring, I have no idea what the password is. I have tried to reset but without knowing the old I cannot reset, I have tried what Mr. Crowthers above suggested but that didn't work so now I am really frustrated and am thinking of formatting the hard drive and going back to Windows, does anyone have any suggestions about how I can get this work and how I can go about opening Evolution and not have to type in passwords every time I want to check for mail?

Susan. I would go to the repositories (Synaptic) and find Mozilla Thunderbird, install it, and use that for an email client. It automatically configures itself when you give it your e-mail address and the password you now use for your account. It may give one warning that your email may not be encrypted. I had no issue with that, because I never put anything in an e-mail I wouldn't go public with. Thunderbird is a great product- sort of a feature-rich small client like Outlook Express. I do not use Evolution because it is more than I need, like in Windows, I never used full blown Outlook (bloatware) and prefered Outlook Express. Evolution has issues that they are slow to fix- (like their Calendar alarms have never worked right.) And I have to say it is the ONLY application in Ubuntu I have ever seen that has persistent bugs that vever seem to get resolved, IMHO.

Load Thunderbird, and there is a mini appointment calendar in the repositories called Orage that works great.

Don't even THINK of going back to Windows. After a month or two with Ubuntu, you will be astounded by the freedom and functionality of Ubuntu. No more virus scans, spyware scans, fragmented hard drives, slow boots followed by waiting for the system tray to load up, updates that break things as often as they fix them etc etc.. Take a month or two to get used to Ubuntu, then get on somebody's Windows system and you will wonder how you ever lived with it!