On Tue, 18 Jul 2023, Brad Chamberlain wrote:
Thanks for the tips! I guess I didn't say in my original message, but
when the failure originally occurred (upon running 'alpine'), the reason
for the failure was completely unclear. It just said something vague
like "unable to open INBOX" or the like.
Dear Brad,
my memory is not the best, nor do I have direct experience with Macs, so
I till tell you what I remember from my Linux experience. First, depending
on the version of Alpine that you are using, the error that prevented you
from opening the inbox might not be fully displayed, but the latest
version of Alpine will. The error you displayed is consistent with using
version 2.26, so you are up to date in that side.
I kept hoping that I'd eventually get the device login prompt and web
redirect if I waited long enough or restarted enough times or tried
reopening it enough times, but I never did. It was only when re-running
with the '-erase_stored_passwords' flag that I was offered the chance to
do a new device login / get a new token from Outlook.
My experience is that you do not need to restart Alpine. My thinking is
that (in Linux, and Windows, but probably not in Mac OS) when the access
token created by the refresh token fails fails, the refresh token is
erased, so the next time the process is attempted it starts from scratch.
I will have to double check that this is the case.
If I were to get into this situation again, are there other ways to
force getting a new refresh token other than using that flag, or did I
end up finding the best practice?
using the erase-passwords option seems to be the correct way to solve this
issue, albeit it erases all your passwords. If the problem happened every
time that you opened alpine, then it means that the alpine version is not
deleting that credential, and I need to look into that.
All of this would be much easier if Mac and Windows did not have their own
way to deal with password support. I am thinking of doing one of two
things: either forcing everyone to use password file support or adding a
password file into the windows credentials and the mac keychain. This
would make it much simpler to support alpine across several platforms.
I know I upset people when I do this kind of things, so if anyone has
opinions that I should consider, I will be happy to read them.
--
Eduardo
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