We're working on it... turns out that the bug was only introduced very, very recently, and it has much, much worse implications than we thought at first. Luis
On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 16:42, Ornitorinco wrote: > > Hi again, > The expected behavior is to keep trying to access the > imap inbox even if the server is telling you that's the > wrong password? > > I would like it to try once and if it cannot access it for > any reason to give me feedback as to what is going on > before trying again. > > The only way I can get around this is deleting my account > before changing the password on the imap server and then > creating with a new password. That's inconvenient. > > I'll file it as a bug then, any chance it will get fixed soon? > > Mayly > > > On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 15:47, Luis Villa wrote: > > Hrm. I think it is (sort of) the expected behavior. I also think it's > > pretty much a dup, but I can't find the original. Please file a new one, > > and note the specific reason why you'd like it to behave in this way. > > Thanks. > > Luis > > > > On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 11:22, Ornitorinco wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I ran into a big bug with evolution this weekend. > > > I use an imap account with my university and they have me > > > change password every 6 months. They also have it set > > > so that if I fail to authenticate 20 times in a row > > > they block my account and I have to call. > > > > > > I have evolution save my password for my imap account. > > > On Friday I changed my password and then opened evolution. > > > I figured it will try to access once, not be able to > > > get in and then give me the message the password is wrong > > > or something. Instead evolution tried to authenticate > > > more than 20 times before I could kill it or hit the > > > forget password button. > > > > > > This happened both with evolution RC 1 and RC 2. > > > Meaning I got my account blocked a second time, because > > > I thought all I have to do is erase the .gnome_private/Evolution > > > file and it would ask me for my password but that didn't > > > work either. > > > > > > I hope this is not the expected behavior? > > > Should I file a bug? > > > Platy > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > -- > > Luis Villa > > Ximian Bugmaster > > "Quality is an amazing bridge because it is universal in its language." > > Thomas Corcoran > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Luis Villa Ximian Bugmaster "Quality is an amazing bridge because it is universal in its language." Thomas Corcoran _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
