Re: [Evolution] password bug

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

We're working on it... turns out that the bug was only introduced very,
very recently, and it has much, much worse implications than we thought
at first.
Luis

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 16:42, Ornitorinco wrote:
> Hi again,
> The expected behavior is to keep trying to access the 
> imap inbox even if the server is telling you that's the 
> wrong password? 
>
> I would like it to try once and if it cannot access it for
> any reason to give me feedback as to what is going on
> before trying again.
>
> The only way I can get around this is deleting my account
> before changing the password on the imap server and then
> creating with a new password. That's inconvenient.
>
> I'll file it as a bug then, any chance it will get fixed soon?
>
> Mayly
>
>
> On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 15:47, Luis Villa wrote:
> > 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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