Re: [Evolution] Password lock

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley attbi com>]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 12:00, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> Dan,
>       Actually, wouldn't better behavior be that it makes a dialog which
> looks like this?:

That would probably work.  At least it's better than forgetting the
password.  It doesn't really affect me anymore since I use a local IMAP
server with getmail to download it, but this seems like a decent
solution (which is basically I think what Larry Ewing also proposed).

Dan

>  ------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Enter Password for KirseAtCvc                                    |
> |                                                                  |
> | ? Unable to connect to POP server mail.viborgnet.dk.             |
> |   Error sending password: -ERR /var/mail/.srv0332-03.pop         |
> |   lock busy!  Is another session active? (35)                    |
> |                                                                  |
> |   Please enter the POP password for srv0332-03 mail viborgnet dk |
> | [********                                                      ] |
> | [X] Remember this password                                       |
> |------------------------------------------------------------------|
> | [ OK ]                     [ Forget Saved Password ]  [ Cancel ] |
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:08, 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
> >
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