Tickets :: Comment on [#11297] Fatal authentication error not catched

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Comment	>>> I would like to know why the authentication is failing (you already >>> logged into IMP, right?), but this should fix the authentication >>> exception. >> >> Why doesn't matter, I enforced this by shutting down the IMAP >> server. The point is that we need to gracefully handle if something >> happens on the server side. > > My mistake. I was worried that the issue was something like the > cached IMAP session object becoming invalid. I wasn't aware that > this issue was caused by known downtime in the IMAP server. > >> Regular pages continue to work fine now even if IMAP authentication >> in IMP fails. But inside IMP, this is still not correctly handled. >> AJAX requests get an empty response, i.e. the user is not logged out >> of IMP. > > Is authentication actually failing on the IMAP server? Or is the > IMAP server not reachable on the network? The latter will NOT cause > a logout (since it is not an authentication error - once > authenticated, it is assumed the user remains authenticated until the > server explicitly indicates authentication is wrong).
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