Implement connect

offlineimap/repository/Base.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Base repository support
-# Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006 John Goerzen
+# Copyright (C) 2002-2007 John Goerzen
 # <jgoerzen@complete.org>
 #
 #    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ class BaseRepository(CustomConfig.ConfigHelperMixin):
 
 	return self.restore_folder_atimes()
 
+    def connect(self):
+        """Establish a connection to the remote, if necessary.  This exists
+        so that IMAP connections can all be established up front, gathering
+        passwords as needed.  It was added in order to support the
+        error recovery -- we need to connect first outside of the error
+        trap in order to validate the password, and that's the point of
+        this function."""
+        pass
+
     def holdordropconnections(self):
         pass