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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Monday, July 06, 2015 a las 09:33:30AM +0100, Dan Chapman escribió:

> 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.

I definitely restarted Dekko a few times after changing the pw in the
server; Dekko never complained about the wrong (old) password. Only after
restarting the BQ, the password request was raised.

	matthias

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