GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 274321
[PATCH] exchange: unable to connect to backend server
Last modified: 2006-08-07 08:32:44 UTC
If an incorrect username is entered when connecting to an exchange server, and it is then changed, clicking Send/Receive will show a message about being unable to connect to backend process. A "pkill evolution" is the workaround.
This looks more like a bug to me which should be fixed by 2.4.1. Marking this as 'Major'.
I could not reproduce this. I tried in the following way: 1) Tried to configure a new account. 2) Gave an incorrect user name and clicked on 'Authenticate' button. The authentication failed so the 'Forward' button doesn't get enabled. So, configuring the account (with an incorrect username) is not possible. I too tried in this way: 1) Clicked on Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts->Edit 2) Clicked on 'Receiving Email' tab and changed the username to something else (an incorrect name). Closed this dialog and clicked on 'Send/Receive'. An error dialog shows "Could not connect to Evolution Exchange backend process". Expected . 3) Changed the username back to the original name and clicked on 'Send/Receive'. It is working fine. Please let me know if I missed something.
It's half fixed :) For the second method, you get the "file does not exist" error message. It's not a friendly error message, it doesn't tell the user what the problem is. If the error message was improved, the bug could go.
removing old target milestone
Created attachment 70068 [details] [review] Patch - diff for the glade file
Mistake in the above comment. It is the patch to show error when there is a change socket file path.
patch committed to CVS head.