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Pidgin master password   forum
Written by rumli the 15 Mar 08 at 14:08. Global category: Internet & Networking. Not an idea
Pidgin stores passwords in a plain-text file, and it doesn't look like that is going to change any time soon. (See http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords)

I am very uncomfortable with storing my Google accounts passwords (for Google Talk) in plain text. Is it possible to make a Pidgin plugin available from apt that would allow for passwords to be encrypted on disk by a master password, similar to Firefox and Thunderbird?
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #4728
Written by rumli the 15 Mar 08 at 14:08.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #4728 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Solution #2: Encrypt passwords in accounts.xml
Written by dawon the 21 Jan 09 at 20:53.
All passwords should be encrypted (even with simple cipher), to make it more hard to get it.
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Solution #3: Include an add-on that delivers communication with gnome-keyring
Written by diegoj the 21 Jan 09 at 21:12.
Make Pidgin uses gnome-keyring (or similar solution) to make the keys-access more secure.

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Graphical IMAP Migration Tool  
Written by Mebus the 3 Apr 08 at 14:09. Global category: Office. New
Provide a tool, that makes it easy to migrate and copy your emails from one IMAP server to another. A feature to store the E-Mails from a IMAP Server offline (backup) to load them back to the server would also be usefull.

There exist a bunch of scripts but none of these works perfectly.

Thank you folks.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #6328
Written by Mebus the 3 Apr 08 at 14:09.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #6328 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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