On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
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?
I do not know the source of the "Mail Authentication Request" -- it
may be the local Evolution installation. Apparently the row of dots
represents the password my machine is sending to the host which
receives message and awaits a download request from my local
computer.
My complaint is that when something is amiss, a row of dots does not
help solve the problem. And unless I am working in a public location,
there is no need to conceal the password. Thankfully, now many
applications provide a check-box to display the password in plain
text.
And in a case such as this, it would be nice for the root user to be
able to disable password checking.
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 ..
Security for the sake of security is folly.
RLH
