[Evolution] Bug#509129: Bug#509129: evolution-exchange: Evolution-exchange stopped working suddenly (partly SOLVED)

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven, 2008-12-19 at 00:39 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> Hello, don't understand me wrong and please be a bit more patient. I know
> evolution is gnome app and I use it because kde didn't provide exchange
> plugin as evolution did (respect). So I'm ready to use anything so that
> it's happy and works.
> The problem is that it was pretty happy for may be 2y. and I have a lot of
> mail saved in evolution, so I don't want to use other apps right now ;-).

By the way, you can export your mail from evolution, to import them in
another evolution. There's a backup plugin for that, which will then
appear in the File menu.
> 
> The information you gave here brought me to the idea to try one very simple
> thing. I removed everything evolution and gnome-keyring realted and
> reinstalled.
> This didn't help, so I created a new account, logged in and configured
> evolution with my exchange account data. It worked! It said it can not
> communicate with gnome-keyring. the keyring was not running. I started it
> I logged in into my mailbox after creating a passphrase.

Nice.
> 
> I changed to my own account. I removed the exchange configuration and ...
> deleted .evolution/exchange and the .gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring
> 
> I created a new configuration and logged into my mail account.
> As I clicked the checkbox "remember password" it runs the gnome-keyring
> prompt to enter or initially to create password key.

Because gnome-keyring was running, yes. If you don't want gnome-keyring,
remove it, you'll be sure it'll not get in the way (as in the “new
account” case).
> 
> This makes me think that your statement that it saves the password to gconf
> is not valid at least for, which means that may be I have a problem with
> gconf.

Well, I'm not really sure it saves it in gconf, but I'm sure it saves it
somewhere I'm not interested in when gnome-keyring isn't available.

> This would be also a very good explanation why I was not prompted for
> keyring password in Suse or kubuntu, though honestly this is my hypothesis.

“this” being?
> 
> how do I check this gconf thingie, or better should I ask what exactly
> should I check. I remember I used the editor to do configurations in my
> personal gconf few years ago.

Use gconf-editor and explore, evo settings should be in Apps/Evolution.


Oh, and last things:

PLEASE LET THE BUG ON CC:
DONT ANSWER TO THE LIST.
IS THAT CLEAR?
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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