[Solved]Where does Mail store email credentials?
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IIs it on disk? or
Does Vivaldi sync the credentials to their servers then fetch emails and return them to the user interface? or
There is even a different way to do all the email things?
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Does anybody know anything about this?
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As I can see, on linux that is /home/<user>/.config/vivaldi/Default/Mail.
Syncronisation is not used.
RPM-based Linux, Xfce.
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Thank you very much. @runur
Is it possible to export Mail settings/configs right from the browser?
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@runur There is one more thing about drafts. If I create a local draft, it does not sync to the IMAP server. The opposite with a caveat works, though. If the draft is created in webmail then the email contents just vanish away if I edit it locally.
Any idea what might be going wrong here?
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@iambozdar said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
IIs it on disk? or
Does Vivaldi sync the credentials to their servers then fetch emails and return them to the user interface?I was thinking all about login credentials here. Does Vivaldi store IMAP/SMTP credentials on the server to fetch emails for the client?
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@iambozdar said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
IIs it on disk? or
Does Vivaldi sync the credentials to their servers then fetch emails and return them to the user interface?I was thinking all about login credentials here. Does Vivaldi store IMAP/SMTP credentials on the server to fetch emails for the client?
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@iambozdar said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
If I create a local draft, it does not sync to the IMAP server.
Unfortunatelly, yes, it is. Additionaly, there are other reasons which stoped me using built-in email client.
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@runur said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
Additionaly, there are other reasons
Does it include Vivaldi Mail importing login credentials to the server and then pushing the fetched emails to the client?
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@iambozdar said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
Does it include Vivaldi Mail importing login credentials to the server and then pushing the fetched emails to the client?
No, I ment some unconveniences in interface of the client and bugs.
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@runur I want to know if Vivaldi imports login credentials to the server or not.
Do you know about this?
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@iambozdar I don't know that.
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@runur I think no one knows this here as I have been pinging for a week.
This means that when a user enters the username and password in the Vivaldi mail client, it sends both inputs to the Vivaldi server, emails are downloaded there on the server and then pushed to the user interface.
Someone, please void here.
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@iambozdar said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
This means that when a user enters the username and password in the Vivaldi mail client, it sends both inputs to the server, emails are downloaded there and then pushed to the user interface.
That is pretty much how any e-mail client communicates with a mail server. It sends the credentials and if they are accepted, retrieves any waiting messages.
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@edwardp said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
it sends both inputs to the server
@edwardp said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
It sends the credentials
Server means Vivaldi server. Does Vivaldi store usernames and passwords on their servers to pull and push emails?
For instance, the user enters '[email protected]' and password as 'mypass'. Now Vivaldi takes those two inputs and "stores" them on their server. Vivaldi server downloads the emails there and then pushes the emails to the built-in email client for the user to read.
The username, password, and copies of retrieved (IMAP) emails stay there on the server waiting for the next input like delete or move into other folders, etc.
This is how Vivaldi mail client works, right?
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@iambozdar
Hi and no, Vivaldi stores nothing on there servers except you want it.
If you use Vivaldi sync all user/pass data are send encrypted to the Vivaldi server.
It does not make any difference if these mail credentials or logins on websites.
If you don´t use sync it stores all data local.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
It does not make any difference if these mail credentials or logins on websites.
Thank you for this reply.
Encryption was not a concern here. I wanted to know if the external mail credentials are also syncing via the built-in mail client. Now, I know that yes they are in sync too together with the website credentials.Now if a user removes the external mail from the built-in Vivaldi mail client when those credentials are removed from the server? On the very next sync or does it take longer?
Besides the above, does it mean all the emails/attachments of [email protected] also sit on the Vivaldi server?
Mail configs are not yet syncing, and neither are the external calendars or feeds. I know that.
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@iambozdar
If you remove a mail account the credentials are removed from the server.
I guess it need a few minutes until sync does this.
Attachements are not synced, they are on the mail server [email protected] or local.If you open vivaldi://sync-internals you can watch this in real time what sync does.
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Where does Mail store email credentials?:
Attachements are not synced
Email text, metadata, and anything in between do sync, right?
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@iambozdar
To my knowledge only the credentials are synced nothing else from the mail client.
For lack of a better example, a bookmark is synced but nothing from the page.Cheers, mib
