The Falcon's Nest

I have multiple email accounts in Opera's mail client, and use the Master password to control access to email and Wand. I have also set the Master password to ask me once per session. Yet, every time I start Opera I get multiple prompts to enter the Master password.

If you have a similar setup, then you must be quite familiar with this annoyance as well.

What happens is that all your accounts are making connections simultaneously at startup, and since they all need to access the passwords from the wand.dat file while a 'session' hasn't quite started yet, each one results in a prompt for the Master password.

Here is a workaround to rest those tired fingers.

Here's what you do:

º Close Opera
º Open the accounts.ini file in your local Mail folder (see Help > About Opera for 'Mail directory')
º For your favorite email account, set the Initial Poll Delay=5
º For all other email accounts, set the Initial Poll Delay=60
º Save and close the file
º Start Opera

This forces only one account to poll on startup, and the others have to wait 60 seconds before polling. Now the Master password will pop up only once on startup. If you enter your password within a minute (55 seconds, to be exact), it will not bother you again.