[Alpine-info] invalid_grant error AADSTS70043: expired or invalid refresh token

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, Jerry wrote:


> Thanks Eduardo for the explanation.  I use alpine on a Mac, and frankly, 

> considering that you do not program on a Mac, I'm impressed that alpine 

> has Mac specific code.


For clarification purposes. The KeyChain code comes from the team at the 
University of Washington. I'm hoping I will never have to deal with it, 
since I do not have a Mac, so I have no way to maintain it.


> Anyhow, in reply to your idea, I believe the better option is using the 

> generic password file support instead of the windows/mac specific 

> options.


Thank you for your feedback!


>  I emphatically agree the code would be much simpler to support across 

> platforms.  As it is now, the #ifdef logic is complicated.  A few years 

> ago, I made a focused effort tracing through the logic and discovered a 

> minor bug with the Mac Keychain support.  I forget the details by now, 

> but the logic is more complicated than it should be.  I would definitely 

> favor simplifying the code.


Oh! I was not aware of a bug in the code. Hopefully it is easy to fix. If 
you find it again, please let me know so we can investigate it.

-- 
Eduardo