GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 681574
Change to authentication type does not take effect until restart
Last modified: 2012-08-31 16:13:06 UTC
It seems that a change to the "Receiving Email" authentication type does not actually take effect until after restarting Evolution.
Thanks for a bug report. You are right, most changes in account preferences required restart of evolution. This should be better with upcoming 3.6.0, though probably still not perfect. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207481 ***