Giving inditcations of hung email collection #2234
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If you are using a system like "pass" to manage credentials you will get a different form of error as you need a passphrase. Attempt to catch the various forms. While we are it also fix a doc change which was missed when mu4e--get-mail-password-regexp was changed.
This is an attempt to give a passive indication of hung email collections by exposing a status on the main page. The typical failure case for me is an expired ssh key session leading to background update hanging because non-interactive sessions shouldn't interrupt the user for key information. I also occasionally see mbsync hanging during collection and just never exiting. At least this way I could see an update started many hours ago and never completed. However it's apparent that there are other notification and logging mechanisms which such a thing should maybe use but none seemed to be good fits. I'm open to a cleaner way to implement this even if it's just in user hooks.
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As described in the second patch. This is very much an RFC and I'm open to suggestions of better ways to solve the problem.