Re: [Evolution] Password lock

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 12:08, Dan Hensley wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 11:00, Richard Bellavance wrote:
> > That's a POP3-server-generated message.  It basically means someone
> > (heopfully you :-) is already reading your mailbox.  One cause of this
> > could be a very large mailbox (are you set with "leave mail on server"
> > ?) on a very busy server.  Sometimes the server will not have time to
> > reset its state (i.e. recopy your mailbox) before you try to read it
> > again.  How often do you check you mail ?
> >
> > Anyhow, definitely not an Evolution problem...
>
> Maybe not technically, but what the original poster is complaining about
> is the fact that Evo forgets the password.  This is tremendously
> annoying, especially if your POP server isn't all that reliable (which
> is the case too often, and frequently there's nothing the user can do
> about it).  What would be much nicer is if Evo would parse the returned
> error message for certain types and then not forget the password in
> cases like this where the password is not the problem.  I think Evo may
> do this already, but I'm not sure.  If not it sure would be nice...
>
> Dan

The strings are all different for different servers parsing them is not
going to happen.  About the only thing we could do it fill in the passwd
blank with the previous password as *s.  That probably makes sense, but
it does make the "I entered my password wrong" case slightly more
annoying