[Evolution] Bug#789899: evolution-ews: Office 365 account creation unsuccessful and hangs Evolution without evolution-mapi package

[Tanda Tuovinen]

Package: evolution-ews
Version: 3.12.9~git20141130.278fe7-1+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I encountered a problem while creating an Office 365 account. I went to
Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts->Add and entered the following configurations:

Server type: Exchange Web Services
username: tvtuovin at ad.helsinki.fi
host url: https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
-> Fetch URL

Everything seemed to work but the account did not appear on the list. I tried
this several times and closed and reopended the Evolution also without success.
After my attemts I found some Evolution back processes with ps -ef | grep
evolution and killed those. After that I restarted Evolution and now the
accounts that I had created and all of them started to fetch new mail but it
did not seem to work and evolution would hang if I clicked any of the accounts
on the list on the left. After restarting Evolution I was able to re-enter
Edit->Preferences and I tried deleting the extra accounts. The account would
disappear from the list but Evolution would hang again and after restart the
account would still be on the list.

I was able to resolve all the above issues by installing evolution-mapi package.

So it seems that at least with Office 365 accounts the evolution-ews package
requires the evolution-mapi package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages evolution-ews depends on:
ii  evolution                   3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0                 2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                       2.19-18
ii  libcairo-gobject2           1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                   1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcamel-1.2-49             3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u2
ii  libebackend-1.2-7           3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u2
ii  libebook-contacts-1.2-0     3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u2
ii  libecal-1.2-16              3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u2
ii  libedata-book-1.2-20        3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u2
ii  libedata-cal-1.2-23         3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-18       3.12.9~git20141128.5242b0-2+deb8u2
ii  libenchant1c2a              1.6.0-10.1
ii  libevolution                3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0          2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                  3.14.5-1
ii  libgtkhtml-4.0-0            4.8.5-1
ii  libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0     4.8.5-1
ii  libical1a                   1.0-1.3
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0  2.4.8-2
ii  libmspack0                  0.5-1
ii  libnspr4                    2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                     2:3.17.2-1.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0              1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0         1.36.8-3
ii  libsecret-1-0               0.18-1+b1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                2.48.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0          2.4.8-2
ii  libxml2                     2.9.1+dfsg1-5

evolution-ews recommends no packages.

evolution-ews suggests no packages.

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