Re: [evolution-patches] 62856, all, asking passwords in offline mode

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:34 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:28 +0800, Not Zed wrote:

> > this is a fairly clean but sort of dirty workaround for asking
> > passwords in offline mode.  it assumes if the calendar or
> > addressbook is asking for a password then it must be a remote
> > resource.  mail doesn't need it as it does the right thing already,
> > and smime should only be local resources.  gpg w/ remote keyservers
> > is another issue, i don't know what happens right now or if we can
> > really do anything about it anyway.
> > 
> > If the app is offline, we just return that the user has cancelled
> > the password request, it is up to the backend as to what it does
> > with no auth.  some annoying popup boxes may be likely from the
> > addressbook at least (the mailer explicitly surpresses any followon
> > error boxes after user expliclty cancels something).
> > 
> > this works since everything is in-proc now.

Addressbook part looks good.

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Hans Petter