On 04 Aug 22:15, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:05:42PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 04 Aug 20:24, Chris G wrote:
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Enter your password for user@isbd.co.uk@mail.gridhost.co.ukwhich is fairly stupid!
No, that's completely correct... it's printing: username@server
Why? :-) It isn't an E-Mail address so why put the @ in there?
Why does ssh use username@server... or rsync... or http... or... <insert a myriad of services that take a username and connect to a server here>?
Because that's the normal thing to do, and what people expect, generally, through years of conditioning!
When it becomes fun is when you're sshing with an @ in your username... I leave it as an excercise to the reader as to how you go about that one.
your username is user@isbd.co.uk and the server is mail.gridhost.co.uk.
Where is your actual problem? Did you bother trying your password?
Yes, but I have to admit using the wrong one, usign the right one makes it work. If it hadn't been going on about zelma@isbd.co.uk@mail.gridhost.co.uk I'd have been more persistent.
I can't remember the last time I set up a graphical client that didn't give me a password prompt asking for user@servers password. In that form.
Thanks for pointing out what Thunderbird was trying to do.
I still think it would be better if it said:-
Enter the password for zelma@isbd.co.uk on IMAP server mail.gridhost.co.uk
Look at all that screen real estate you're wasting! That's an extra 16 characters! And still not accurate, doesn't include the protocol version, or the port number!