[Evolution] Bug#749617: evolution-ews: does not retrive or send mail, claims to be offline - additional information

Tue Aug 26 20:36:04 UTC 2014

Upgraded to Evolution 3.12.2 using 'apt-get upgrade' on debian jessie,
problem still exists. Using following following script to start
evolution as a workaround:

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export http_proxy=http://www.example.com:3128
evolution &
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill West <bill at bwi.com>
Reply-to: bill at bwi.com, 749617 at bugs.debian.org
To: 749617 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#749617: evolution-ews: does not retrive or send mail,
claims to be offline - additional information
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:27:17 -0400

The workaround in upstream bug 708175 which involves setting http_proxy
environment variable and starting Evolution from the command line
resolves this problem (in an inconvenient way). Running in Xfce session,
but I observed the original problem in both Gnome and Gnome Classic
sessions also.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708175

On Jessie box, did following on command line, and evolution connected to
Exchange server. The proxy url is a bogus one (from bug report 708175
linked above). Don't know the significance of the warning messages, but
thought you might like to see them.

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bill at thrasher:~$ export http_proxy=http://abc.xyz.com:3128
bill at thrasher:~$ printenv

... other env vars ...
http_proxy=http://abc.xyz.com:3128

bill at thrasher:~$ evolution 

(evolution:29744): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
Entity: line 11: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: META line 0 and HEAD
</HEAD><BODY><TABLE width=500 border=0 cellspacing=10><TR><TD>
       ^

(evolution:29744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_closure_unref: assertion 'closure->ref_count > 0' failed

(evolution:29744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_closure_unref: assertion 'closure->ref_count > 0' failed

(evolution:29744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_closure_unref: assertion 'closure->ref_count > 0' failed
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