Hi Albrecht!

On 10/21/2018 01:35:24 PM Sun, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
Hi all,

as I promised a few days ago, I now created a quite large patch for consolidating the 
server configuration and GUI for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP.  As the patch is rather large 
(too large for the mailing list limit), please load it from my web site 
<https://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-dreszal/server-config.diff.bz2>.

Basically, I created a new module libbalsa/server-config.[ch] which takes care 
of creating a GUI for all the common options.  By using the new class, a lot of 
duplicated and partly inconsistent code (e.g. there is no option for storing 
the IMAP server password in the key ring) can be removed.

I tested in valgrind for smtp and all types of local and remote mailboxes: new 
+ cancel, new + ok, modify + cancel, modify + ok and delete, so I /think/ it is 
usable.  However, due to the amount and complexity of changes, a review would 
be highly appreciated…

Please note that there are still some open points:
- User certificate passphrases: the code for asking the user if the passphrase 
shall not be stored is still missing.  As this is a rarely used option, it's no 
blocker IMHO.
- The IMAP connection should use (derive, inherit) LibBalsaServer which will 
also simplify the code.  Now, user certificates are not working although there 
is a config gui (again, no blocker, though).
- Dovecot offers “EXTERNAL” IMAP authentication in combination with user 
certificates, which is also not yet supported.
- If we build using gcr, the password gcr dialogue should be used if possible.
- In general, we might want to re-think our approach of keeping user 
credentials in memory, at least if we have libsecret: keeping them in unsafe 
(pageable) memory should be avoided.

As always, any comment will be highly welcome!

Best,
Albrecht

Thanks for the work, and the patch! It applies and builds[0], and I'm testing 
it now. All looks good so far!

As you note, the patch is large ( > 3000 lines!), but I'll at least skim it to 
see if (G_UNLIKELY) I have any comments.

Best,

Peter

[0] I had to add an additional FALSE argument to some libbalsa-conf calls in 
address-book-ldap.

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