[imp] function to check if mail server is down

[Joost De Cock]

It's not a patch but an idea:

How about not checking it, (no performance dip) but returning a message
like:

"Login failed for some reason. Most likely your username or password was
entered incorrectly. Maybe your mailserver is down, click here to test it."

Or whatever, point is, you would only affect performance if t doesn't work
in the first place, and on the user's request.

Please feel free to inform me if I'm full of crap.

Joost


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Hagenbuch [mailto:chuck@horde.org]
Sent: vrijdag 30 augustus 2002 4:14
To: imp@lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] function to check if mail server is down


Quoting Jie Gao <J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au>:

> It would be good to have a function to check if the imap/pop server is
> up at user login and give an appropriate message instead of just saying
> the user has entered a wrong login name or password.

If you can supply a patch that doesn't affect performance adversely, that'd
be great.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
"After a few minutes the most aromatic and nice smelling Italian coffee 
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