GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 732598
GOA mail account name lost on property change
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:04:20 UTC
I have 3 Google accounts which I have added to system in GOA. After that Evolution saw them, their names were "xxx@gmail.com", where xxx is my username. Then I tried to change their settings, like directories, frequency of fetching emails etc. After changing *anything* name of account changes to "unnamed" (Polish: "bez nazwy"). It happens with all three accounts. I tried to remove and add them again (in GOA). I tried to find out which setting is causing name change, but I couldn't. I'm using Debian Jessie. Evolution version: 3.12.1-1. Maybe this bug is more related to GOA, because this situation started after some problems with it (adding account didn't work, something with gnome-keyring).
Thanks for a bug report. I tried to reproduce it and it behaves the same for me as for you, the account name is changed into Unnamed.
This is odd, I saw the issue, but once I begun to play with the code I was not able reproduce the issue anymore. My changes involved restart of a GOA daemon, running a newer version. (In reply to comment #0) > Maybe this bug is more related to GOA, because this situation started after > some problems with it (adding account didn't work, something with > gnome-keyring). Thus I think you can be right here. I was looking into .source files at ~/.config/evolution/sources/ related to the GOA-based GMail account and there was files with DisplayName=Unnamed key in the [Data Source] section of the file (at the very top of the file for me). It seems to me that evolution-data-server failed to recognize certain mail information in the .source files which prevented it from correct DisplayName change, though that's only a guess. As I said, it begun to work properly for me.
*** Bug 733251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hello, I forgot about this bug, since I'm not using Evolution right now. When I saw info about merging bugs I decided to check if bug is still there. I've removed all accounts in GOA and I've added one again. Bug still exists... Evolution version is 3.12.7-1, evolution-data-server - 3.12.7.1-2. GOA version is 3.14.1-1. If I can help somehow, please tell me what to do. Best regards, Pamela Strucker
Bug #751005 comment #1 contains steps how to reproduce this.
Hmm, and I'm not able to reproduce this again. Maybe it's after changes from bug #751005, or even with a commit 3738cdc. I'll keep this opened, just in case someone will be able to reproduce this more reliably than I can.
I'm getting this with Evolution 3.16.3 on Fedora 22, using KDE with GOA accessed via gnome-control-center. In fact my complaint is not only that the original name was lost, but that even before being lost the original name couldn't be changed to my preference. It was just set to the account's email address without asking.
(In reply to Patrick OCallaghan from comment #7) > I'm getting this with Evolution 3.16.3 on Fedora 22, using KDE with GOA > accessed via gnome-control-center. In fact my complaint is not only that the > original name was lost, but that even before being lost the original name > couldn't be changed to my preference. It was just set to the account's email > address without asking. It's taken from the GOA settings. I was told there's a plan to allow users "rename accounts", but I cannot find the bug right now.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752114 for a workaround.
*** Bug 750010 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, I'm getting this in Evolution 3.16.3 as well.
It's sort of known with 3.16.x. The 3.18.x contains some related fixes, which will address this too. It'll be good to test with 3.18.x.
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