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Evolution Email

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/* Evolution forgets SMTP password */
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[[File:evolution318.png|thumb|none|250px]]The developers should have made the label on the third row top left just above the side bar clickable, so one could select it as a drop down and change it from "Sent, Personal, Calendar, Tasks, Memos" but they did not.  Someone should suggest it to them so that Evolution would be more intuitive.  However, such a thing does exist and is called the "Switcher." The switcher is at the bottom of the side bar lets you switch between the Evolution tools: Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Memos and Tasks.The label on the third row top left just above the side bar indicates things like "Sent, Personal, Calendar, Tasks, Memos" to indicate what the primary window interface is displaying.  The switcher is at the bottom of the side bar and it lets you switch between the Evolution tools: Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Memos and Tasks.=== Evolution forgets SMTP password ===[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1299604 Ubuntu / Evolution Bug Report: evolution keeps asking for password] Evolution uses "Keyring" to manage account passwords under Ubuntu / Mint / Gnome Linux. A program called "seahorse" is included with Gnome or Mint under typical installations under the name "Passwords and Keys."It seems that if Evolution has trouble connecting to the SMTP mail server, just once, it will trash all the saved passwords for SMTP mail account in keyring.  This is clearly a bug in Evolution that the devs refuse to address.Once this happens, user must close exit out of Evolution and then go into keyring "otherwise known as Passwords and Keys" and use the search tool to enter "Evolution" then delete all Evolution entries.  Close keyring, open Evolution, send email and enter the password so Evolution creates new keyring entries for each email SMTP account.  Better yet, do a search for Mail Transport - smtpand only remove those if you use pop or imap to receive and SMTP to send, this way you are only resetting SMTP keyring passwords assuming your problem is being prompted for a password when attempting to send time and time again.
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