[Evolution] Bug#337957: Likely diagnosis for this bug

[Anton Ivanov]

This bug is due to terminally dumb UI design.

In the OWA settings page on the wisard (or the relevant preferences
dialogue) the Mailbox should not be a writeable field.

It is obtained from a server. If a user sets it manually (which is the
case if the settings are copied from one machine to another) the Mailbox
is displayed, but internally the library _ADDS_ the setting from the
Mailbox to the one obtained from the server.

As a result instead of accessing https://mail.bt.com/exchange/IVANOVA
(where IVANOVA is the mailbox) it accesses
https://mail.bt.com/exchange/IVANOVA/IVANOVA resulting it total fubar.


None the less all settings and dialogues for both cases - obtained from
server and set manually look the same.

This field must be left as read-only/greyed out/whatever by default and
the correct setting must be displayed if it is touched manually.

The bug has been posted a number of times on Fedora, Ubuntu, etc BTSes,
however it is usually posted as a "Kerberos Error" which is just a
spurious error message and does not reflect the actual bug.

Cheers,

-- 
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            your side, their side, and the truth. --Kosh Naranek

A. R. Ivanov
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