[2024-01-25] Added Reauthenticate button in the Account Properties for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL accounts, in case of a password change
When you change your password for your Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, or AOL accounts using the webmail interface, applications like OE Classic that were previously authorized lose access to the email service. The new Reauthenticate button solves this issue by allowing you to give OE Classic access to the account again. Before this feature was introduced, you had to delete and re-add the account, which was not only cumbersome but also had drawbacks like needing to re-download IMAP folders all over again or losing the list of already downloaded messages for POP accounts (UIDL list).
If you use multiple accounts with the same email service and mistakenly reauthenticate an account different from the one saved in OE Classic, the program will alert you and ask for reauthentication with the same username.
The Reauthenticate button doesn't appear for standard IMAP or POP email accounts because these are authenticated using the regular username and password, so it's not necessary.
In addition to the above, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AOL accounts now display their respective service icons instead of the generic mail envelope icon in the Account Properties. This helps you to easily identify the type of the account.
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