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[Dan Chapman <dpniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/07/15 08:13, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, July 06, 2015 a las 07:21:08AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:
>
> > I have (among others) configured my company mailbox (an OutLook server)
> > as IMAP server and it works fine. In my company I'm forced from time to
> > time to change the password, and I did it right now. Two questions:
> >
> > 1) I have not changed it in Dekko (see question 2), but it still works
> > with the old password. How is this possible?
> >
> > 2) How can I change the IMAP password for this account in Dekko?
>
> I can answer the 2nd question: After a reboot of the device and start of
> Dekko, it was asking for the new password. It seems that somehow before
> the IMAP connection was still active, even after terminating Dekko. Has
> someone any information about this how this is working?

This is most likely the server didn't kick the currently live connection 
after your password change on the server, so Dekko will continue to 
function as normal. It won't be until Dekko is asked to authenticate 
that it finds out the known credentials are invalid and will prompt for 
a re-entry.

Cheers

Dan