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[Dan Chapman <dpniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/07/15 09:45, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 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
Sounds like a bug in the server then if it allowed an invalid password.

Dan