[Evolution] Bug#509129: Bug#509129: Bug#509129: evolution-exchange: Evolution-exchange stopped working suddenly

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu, 2008-12-18 at 22:40 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

*please* keep CC: to the *bug number*

> evolution-exchange is not working for me. This is correct, please explain
> what's wrong.

Evolution *does* work without gnome-keyring. Full stop.

> > Please explain _clearly_ what is the issue. And please don't abuse the
> > BTS by reporting crap and replying to unrelated bug.
> > 
> 
> The issue is that I don't understand but the exchange plugin started
> prompting me for keyring password after I switched to debian and changed
> the password on the exchange server.

If you use the gnome keyring, you may have to change the password in the
keyring. If you don't, then you have to change it inside evolution.

> I've done this many times in the past in Suse and kubuntu with the same
> system configuration. Of course packages differ.

Obviously the configuration is not the same. You're not even able to
tell me what the configuration is. I don't have much time. I *cant* help
you if you are not clear.
> 
> I decided to raise a new bug, because it seems that the one similar to my
> issue is related to previous version.
> 
> My only gnome experience is maybe 2y old. Then I had to sue gconf2 to
> configure an application. I have more experience with gtk2 code, but no
> idea of dbus, keyring and evolution, so I hope you will forgive me if I'm
> doing something wrong, correct me and help me track the problem.
> 
> I doubt I'm the only one with that issue and if so I wonder why. I just want
> to know how I can debug. I can not say I do not have experience in general
> but in this subject I admit that I don't have.
> 
> I'll try to find out with what version it is working and see why it always
> requires the keyring recently

Please check if gnome-keyring is running and used by evolution. If yes,
then the account password may be stored in gnome-keyring, which is
locked by a “keyring password”. If the “keyring password” is the same as
your system password, it'll be unlocked when you log in, but if that's
not the case, you may have to unlock it when an application requires
access to gnome-keyring.

You should be able to access manually gnome-keyring and see the stored
passwords by using: gnome-keyring-manager.

I know you don't want gnome-keyring, and you should be able to drop it
completely. In that case, evo stores the accounts passwords internally
(or somewhere in gconf, I guess). If you don't want any gnome stuff,
don't use evolution. Evolution is a gnome application.

Cheers,