[MlMt] Bad Password looping.

[Ben Hyde]

The good news is that my email vendor has sorted things out.

Or maybe it’s bad news since I can’t reproduce the issue easily.

I’m surprised it didn’t occur to me to turn off the wifi :).

Anyway, thanks’ for listening.

  - ben

On 26 Aug 2015, at 16:46, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2015, at 18:04, Ben Hyde wrote:
>
>> During that period MailMate would complain that the password was 
>> wrong.
>>
>> My first issue: it get’s in a loop.  If you cancel or provide a 
>> password it almost immediately pops up the same complaint.  It is 
>> extremely hard to get out of this state.  I was able to quit, 
>> finally, by slipping the cmd-Q into the short moment after hitting 
>> cancel
>
> This is of course not ideal, but a workaround you can use in the 
> future is to take the machine offline. That should prevent the 
> automatic retrying.
>
>> The second issue is more odd.  It took me a while to realize I the 
>> Sources could be individually disabled via the menu that pops up if I 
>> middle click on the source name in the main viewer.  If I take them 
>> both offline I can work on the mail I’ve already received.
>>
>> So my second issue is that if I bring up only the gmail source I get 
>> prompted for the exchange account’s email.
>>
>> There is a work around, i.e. set the exchange offline and to sync 
>> manually.   If I do sync manually I fall back into the first issue.
>>
>> Curiously if I manage to hit quit and escape from issue one land it 
>> will unwind the work in progress, close all the windows, and then - 
>> just for good measure - pop up 2 or three additional requests for the 
>> password.
>>
>> Hope this is helpful.
>
> It's a bit confusing, but that is probably just because the whole 
> experience is suboptimal. I think I already have fixed some issues 
> which might be related. Therefore I'd like you to try the latest test 
> version: Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software 
> Update preferences pane. Then let me know if the problems persist. You 
> can use “Help ▸ Send Feedback” since I don't think it's of 
> general interest to the list.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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