[Evolution] Bug#509129: evolution-exchange: Evolution-exchange stopped working suddenly (partly SOLVED)

[Emanoil Kotsev]

> You should be able to access manually gnome-keyring and see the stored
> passwords by using: gnome-keyring-manager.
> 
> I know you don't want gnome-keyring, and you should be able to drop it
> completely. In that case, evo stores the accounts passwords internally
> (or somewhere in gconf, I guess). If you don't want any gnome stuff,
> don't use evolution. Evolution is a gnome application.
> 

Hello, don't understand me wrong and please be a bit more patient. I know
evolution is gnome app and I use it because kde didn't provide exchange
plugin as evolution did (respect). So I'm ready to use anything so that
it's happy and works.
The problem is that it was pretty happy for may be 2y. and I have a lot of
mail saved in evolution, so I don't want to use other apps right now ;-).

The information you gave here brought me to the idea to try one very simple
thing. I removed everything evolution and gnome-keyring realted and
reinstalled.
This didn't help, so I created a new account, logged in and configured
evolution with my exchange account data. It worked! It said it can not
communicate with gnome-keyring. the keyring was not running. I started it
I logged in into my mailbox after creating a passphrase.

I changed to my own account. I removed the exchange configuration and ...
deleted .evolution/exchange and the .gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring

I created a new configuration and logged into my mail account.
As I clicked the checkbox "remember password" it runs the gnome-keyring
prompt to enter or initially to create password key.

This makes me think that your statement that it saves the password to gconf
is not valid at least for, which means that may be I have a problem with
gconf.
This would be also a very good explanation why I was not prompted for
keyring password in Suse or kubuntu, though honestly this is my hypothesis.

how do I check this gconf thingie, or better should I ask what exactly
should I check. I remember I used the editor to do configurations in my
personal gconf few years ago.