Re: [Evolution] Password lock

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

we accept patches

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:55, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:56, Larry Ewing wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 12:08, Dan Hensley wrote:
> > > 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...
> > 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
>
> OK, so don't do that if the password has never worked succesfully.
>
> I think it should be sufficient to implement this only in the case where
> users choose to remember the password.  So in that case, if the user has
> chosen for Evo to remember the password, and Evo DOES remember a
> password (because it worked before!), AND that saved password matches
> the one Evo just tried, it will assume that there is some other error
> besides "bad password", and pre-fill the password field with the
> existing password.  If there is no saved password, well, there's nothing
> to pre-fill, is there?
>
> This would certainly help make things less annoying, but I still think
> my previous suggestions (from earlier this morning) would be more useful
> to users.
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com