GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323123
Evolution forgets Exchange account password and folder settings often
Last modified: 2006-05-12 06:52:28 UTC
This bug has been opened here: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19988 "Quite often while using Evolution in Breezy, Evolution will suddenly stop connecting to my Contacts/Calendar/Tasks folders on the Exchange server. You can tell when it's happening when you go there and Evolution unchecks the box to set these folders to display, even though the local ones still work. What's happening there is that Evolution has forgotten my Exchange password, but yet still uses it for checking mail (because mail still works). To fix this, I have to go into account properties, receiving mail... then click "Authentication"... at this point I receive an error that my password is wrong. I have to click OK and then click "Authentication" again and put in my password... then restart Evolution. It will then work again for a little while until it decides to forget it again, usually later in the day. The other problem that occurs about the same frequency is that Evolution forgets which folders I have set for my Sent Items and Drafts folders. Evolution will just suddenly start redirecting everything to my Inbox when I send an email or whatnot. I have to visit the account properties to reset this... probably at least three times a week. ... > Thanks for your bug. Is that specific to exchange setup? Are doing changes to your gconf configuration? Do you have some issues with others applications using gconf? ... I have one IMAP account and one Exchange account set up in Evolution. This only happens on the Exchange account. I have not noticed any other problems related to gconf, no... but it could be that I'm just not aware of it. If the system forgetting passwords is considered one such problem, that does not happen in other applications."
Sebastien: This bug "Evolution forgets which folders I have set for my Sent Items and Drafts folders. Evolution will just suddenly start redirecting everything to my Inbox when I send an email or whatnot. I have to visit the account properties to reset this... probably at least three times a week.' must have been addressed in separate bug. At present there is already a bug entry for this issue. Regarding password issue, in exchange 2.5.4 some password issues has been fixed, reporter of the bug can use that. If the bug is still reproducible in 2.5.4 reopen this bug.
I've pinged the distribution bug submitter about that. Do you have the number for the new bugzilla about the other part of the description?
Guess there was no bug filed on this...
partha, can you look at the forgetting folder settings part?
The problem with "Sent Items and Drafts folders" has been fixed. Now Evolution sets it to the local draft and sent folders during account creation and if the user resets it to exchange accounts drat and sent items folder, that will be remembered later. (see bug #324693 and bug #324694) And 2.4.x had some problems where calendar folders were getting unchecked which is also fixed now in 2.6.x Plese re-open the bug if you still face these issues in 2.6.x