Re: Login Timeouts

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> It _does_ properly reconnect and reprompt me for the password.  The
> thing I find annoying is that it can take it quite a while (appx
> 30-60 seconds?) to realize that it has a timeout situation and then
> to prompt me for username/password.

Ok.

> Even better, perhaps nnimap can simply transparently log
> in following the timeout?

Yup.

But it should never store passwords unless the user has accepted (by
configuration) this behaviour, the default would be to ask for a
password again (and discard them as soon he/she is authenticated).