Re: [Evolution] Errors receiving mail via POP

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 10:25 -0400, Marc Hurst wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 04:41 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > ...       
> > Evolution is reporting an error because the Yahoo servers are giving an
> > error.  This isn't an Evolution problem as such - except in that when an
> > error occurs, Evolution assumes it's an authentication problem and
> > immediately prompts for a password.  (The difference with something like
> > Thunderbird is that it retries with the same password and it usually
> > works the second time - hence it looks like everything is OK with
> > another MUI.)

> Would it be difficult to change Evo to "retry with the same password," 
> like Thunderbird?
>
> It seems like a very useful strategy.

I suspect that this is exactly what fetchmail is doing, and this is why
fetchmail appears to be working OK.  I can change the verbosity level in
fetchmail's log and look it over.