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Bug 553301 - Evolution asks for password on connection reset
Evolution asks for password on connection reset
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Milan Crha
Evolution QA team
evolution[passwords]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-22 19:33 UTC by jeff95350
Modified: 2008-09-26 09:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
proposed eds patch (6.06 KB, patch)
2008-09-23 12:37 UTC, Milan Crha 		committed Details | Review

Description jeff95350 2008-09-22 19:33:14 UTC 
Evolution continues to ask for my password on errors unrelated to authentication, like a connection reset. 

I have several accounts with Gmail and I see about 10 dialogs asking for my password every day, always due to connection reset errors or connection timeouts.

It would be much better if it just informed me unobtrusively (no dialog) that it can't send/receive all the email, and still remembered my password unless it gets an actual authentication error of some kind.

Please let me know if any additional information would be helpful.
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2008-09-23 12:37:05 UTC 
Created attachment 119219 [details] [review]
proposed eds patch

for evolution-data-server;

This is what I found. The rest seems correct on the first look.
What kind of provider are you using to connect to GMail? Is it POP3 or IMAP? The IMAP provider patch has been done in bug #552631
Comment 2 jeff95350 2008-09-23 17:06:21 UTC 
Sorry, I should have mentioned that it's IMAP. I may have seen this with POP3 in the past (I can't remember for certain), but if so, it was much less common with POP3.
Comment 3 Srinivasa Ragavan 2008-09-25 12:29:56 UTC 
Go ahead for stable/trunk
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2008-09-26 09:21:50 UTC 
Committed to trunk. Committed revision 9619.
Committed to gnome-2-24. Committed revision 9620.