On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:43, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > Well, I have to say "NOTABUG" because technically, the login did fail > and so in order to login, we must try again. We have to assume that the > password was invalid. I know your POP server replied with info saying > that the mail spool was locked by another process, but POP defines no > way for a client application to know this. All POP defines is +OK for > when things work out ok and -ERR for failures.
How about (what seems to me to be) a simple change in the popup window? Add a button that says "Retry" to attempt re-connection using the old password? In my only recently-gone POP3 days, it was incredibly annoying to have to re-enter the password when it wasn't changed. Furthermore, to appease those folks who complain about returning after the weekend to find Evolution stuck on a "bad password" message, I have this suggestion: auto-retry the old password at least 5 times. Do it at least 5 times, either every 15 minutes or the user-set mailcheck interval, whichever is LONGER. You could also consider having a flag that keeps track of whether the user has ever succesfully entered a correct password for that account (and reset that obviously, when the user chooses to reset passwords). Oh wait, you have that, don't you? I presume you don't save the password until it has been used successfully at least once, right? A couple simple lines of code and you wouldn't bother auto-retrying or offering a Retry option if there's no saved password. Just my 2 pesetas. Eric -- I have nothing against the American people... ...but it is time for a regime change _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
