Re: [evolution-patches] Terminate password prompts with a full stop

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:43 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> FWIW, it was changed from "password for mbarnes redhat com" to "password
> for mbarnes on host redhat.com" because some mail servers (where vhosts
> are involved??) will require a user's login name to be of the form
> user vhost and so the resultant concatenation would be:
> 
> Please enter the IMAP password for mbarnes redhat com@realhost.com
> 
> which people complained was confusing (and there were hundreds+ of
> complaints before we finally gave in and changed it to the current
> string).
> 
> Just keep that in mind if you decide to change the current prompt.


Good point.  Consistency is really all I'm after.  I could go either way
on the wording.

Matthew Barnes