At 6:38 PM -0500 2/3/03, Alan Brown wrote:
Not all clients. Some recognize response codes, and also attempt to parse the error string for older servers that don't support response codes.It's essential to make sure the users are aware that the mail client stores their passwords and will ask for it to be reentered if there are _any_ problems, in case it was a password error (as well as to avoid slamming the server with repeated requests if something's wrong at client or server end, but users won't understand that part)
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Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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We have, if you like, a funny definition of what is a secret
here in this town [Budapest]: A secret is not something that
nobody knows. A secret is something that everybody knows, but
everybody knows that it's a secret.
--Adam Nadasny, Hungarian poet
