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Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> writes:

> I have two mail sources.  If I happen to type the correct password to the
> first and the incorrect password to the second, Gnus pops up a message
> saying something to the effect of "incorrect password, continue? (yes/no)."
> When I say "yes," Gnus continues but does not read mail that was collected
> from the first mail source (mail-source-crash-box?).  

Could you `(setq debug-on-quit t)` and `C-g' when it prompts you?
Mail me the backtrace.

> It also caches that incorrect password, so that I have to clear the
> mail-source-password-cache (at least for that one source) before it will
> ever read correctly.  In the past, I thought Gnus would simply not set the
> password if it was incorrect.

Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97.

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