we accept patches On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:55, Eric Lambart wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:56, Larry Ewing wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 12:08, Dan Hensley wrote: > > > > > > Maybe not technically, but what the original poster is complaining about > > > is the fact that Evo forgets the password. This is tremendously > > > annoying, especially if your POP server isn't all that reliable (which > > > is the case too often, and frequently there's nothing the user can do > > > about it). What would be much nicer is if Evo would parse the returned > > > error message for certain types and then not forget the password in > > > cases like this where the password is not the problem. I think Evo may > > > do this already, but I'm not sure. If not it sure would be nice... > > > > > The strings are all different for different servers parsing them is not > > going to happen. About the only thing we could do it fill in the passwd > > blank with the previous password as *s. That probably makes sense, but > > it does make the "I entered my password wrong" case slightly more > > annoying > > OK, so don't do that if the password has never worked succesfully. > > I think it should be sufficient to implement this only in the case where > users choose to remember the password. So in that case, if the user has > chosen for Evo to remember the password, and Evo DOES remember a > password (because it worked before!), AND that saved password matches > the one Evo just tried, it will assume that there is some other error > besides "bad password", and pre-fill the password field with the > existing password. If there is no saved password, well, there's nothing > to pre-fill, is there? > > This would certainly help make things less annoying, but I still think > my previous suggestions (from earlier this morning) would be more useful > to users. -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
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