GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 506580
new "Google Calendar Read/Write Support" not working for german accounts (*@googlemail.com)
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:58:44 UTC
Please describe the problem: In germany, people who register at Google, have to use @googlemail.com instead @gmail.com at the end of their account mail adresses. That is because of some legal issues here in germany with a guy who has a trademark on some name similar to gmail. So this situation is really unique, and therefore I believe not considered while developing the Google Calendar Read/Write support feature. Watching the status bar showing the actual problem (it is doing "somebody@googlemail.com@gmail.com" when providing the whole account name or "somebody@gmail.com" providing only the first part) The problem could be easily solved if the plugin preferences are explicitely state for the whole acoountname: somebody@whatevervalidgoogleending.com instead of assume it could only be @gmail.com. If the plugin is written in some script language and easy to understand, I would fix this bug personally, and add a patch here, but I didnt even find the appropriate code where it is done (but perhaps I just didnt search long enough). Steps to reproduce: 1. Use a german Googlemail account, which has the ending @googlemail.com instead of @gmail.com (because of legal issues in germany somebody@googlemail.com is the default) 2. Make a new calendar, choosing Google 3. Enter somebody@googlemail.com or only the name 4. Watching nothing happens, watching the status bar showing the bug in the feature (doing somebody@googlemail.com@gmail.com or somebody@gmail.com) Actual results: Nothing happens. Bug is obvousily seeable in the status bar. Expected results: Seeing my Google Calendars in Evolution, with read and write support. Does this happen every time? Yes, because its a bug in the feature. Other information: Because I am using Ubuntu, I added this bug to the Launchpad also, because at my computer it affects the Evolution package who will be included in the next release, Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron". https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/179512 I can also add a screenshot if somebody requesting it.
I confirm the bug and widen its scope. It not only affects googlemail.com accounts. It affects Google Apps accounts that, obviously, run under private DNS domains, such as my business email and calendar accounts.
This has been fixed in SVN already and will be included in the 2.21.5 release. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 503954 ***