Re: [Evolution] password bug

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Hrm. I think it is (sort of) the expected behavior. I also think it's
pretty much a dup, but I can't find the original. Please file a new one,
and note the specific reason why you'd like it to behave in this way.
Thanks.
Luis

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 11:22, Ornitorinco wrote:
> Hi,
> I ran into a big bug with evolution this weekend.
> I use an imap account with my university and they have me
> change password every 6 months. They also have it set
> so that if I fail to authenticate 20 times in a row
> they block my account and I have to call. 
>
> I have evolution save my password for my imap account. 
> On Friday I changed my password and then opened evolution. 
> I figured it will try to access once, not be able to 
> get in and then give me the message the password is wrong 
> or something. Instead evolution tried to authenticate
> more than 20 times before I could kill it or hit the 
> forget password button. 
>
> This happened both with evolution RC 1 and RC 2. 
> Meaning I got my account blocked a second time, because
> I thought all I have to do is erase the .gnome_private/Evolution
> file and it would ask me for my password but that didn't
> work either.
>
> I hope this is not the expected behavior? 
> Should I file a bug?
> Platy
>
>
>
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