On Mar 05, 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:38:41AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > er, "second" address, just from a MUA? > > I should have said that an extra email address is handly to have. > Sorry for the confusion. > > > > Several days ago, Evolution began causing a "Mail Authentication > > > Request" popup which prevents me from downloading new messages. The > > > likely impetus for the trouble is migration of my hosting account to > > > another server at HostGator. > > > > So authenticate to the service? > > > > Is it (now) using oAuth2 or some such, that you weren't before? > > I do not understand. I am not aware that I messed with authentication > (however one does that).
It may well simply be that the service you're using has upgraded their requirements, not that 'you' necessarily changed something. > > The "Mail Authentication Request" has only a blank (already filled in) > for a password which (very stupidly) is shown as a line of dots, > rather than in plain text. Foolish paranoia! The password is > protected (from what threat?), even at the cost of losing the account > and all the messages! So, it's not "blank" then? Sounds like you've saved the password for the account and the client is trying to auto-fill it for you. Could be as simple as "you changed your password, and the auto-fill details are wrong". "Password" boxes have been asterisks for 25 or 30 years by now; not sure what you're really going on about there .. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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