OAuth misbehaving?

[Walter Lapchynski]

On November 27, 2017 12:27:53 AM PST, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net> wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 05:09:12PM -0800, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 01:28:35AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>> > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 01:56:01PM -0800, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
>> >> I surprised that, if that's the case, a validation check doesn't
>run first. I checked this theory by setting "foobar_bazbong" be no
>complaints. Is that something in newer versions at least? 
>> 
>> > This can be confirmed by
>http://www.offlineimap.org/doc/Changelog.html
>> 
>> I see nothing in there about validating the config file before
>running?
>
>There is no validation. I didn't quote correctly. What's confirmed is
>that XOAUTH2 is not on the version you have.

Right. So changing topics, is there a reason to not have validation? It seems to me to be pretty commonplace and serves a legitimate purpose. 
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