Authentication problem with Evolution 2.6.0

demented_are_go · 03-24-2006, 08:10 AM

I just upgraded to fedora core 5 yesterday and one of the things I've noticed is that I cannot seem to authenticate at all when I try to get my mail from the company's exchange server. I was using Evolution on core 4 without any problems (with the evolution-connector). Core 5 installed evolution 2.6.0 and evolution-connector 2.5.92. I cannot seem to figure out why it's acting this way, I just see my password rejected everytime, I tried switching authentication method, that didn't change a thing. Right now I have to get my work mail through their webmail (OWA) which is pretty annoying.

Anyone ran into the same issue? or even better, has a solution for it?

KimVette · 03-25-2006, 07:23 PM

I've been running into this issue since September. The Ximian team blames libsoup (check out Novell's messageboards sometime, it's pretty lame), and presumably the libsoup maintainers just shrug and think "those bozos at Ximian/Novell love to pass the buck don't they. . . "

foo_bar_foo · 03-25-2006, 10:20 PM

it might just be a problem with the way you are writing the OWA URL
don't use whole domain like server.domain.com
try as username
domain/username
and URL
https://emailserver/exchange/username.email_id

also like always delete ~/.evolution when you upgrade

don't know if it helps but worth a try at the risk of kimvette flame

demented_are_go · 03-27-2006, 09:04 AM

It worked fine until I upgraded this box to core 5, the way email works around here, I have to use my full email as uname, and the url of the OWA worked fine on the version of evolution that came with core 4. I just got all excited seeing there seemed to be an evolution update evailable (yum check-update showed one) but it didn't help at all, I tried removing the folder and redoing my account... no luck. The OWA is on plain http, not secure.

Right now I've removed all the evolution packages, removed the .evolution dir and I'm attempting a full reinstall from scratch. It's really annoying to have to use webmail.

Ok installing from scratch didn't change a thing, I've tried right about everything I could think of, I'm utterly disappointed at this point, I hate it when a good piece of software gets broken like that :/

foo_bar_foo · 03-27-2006, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demented_are_go

the OWA worked fine on the version of evolution that came with core 4.

i'm just saying some people are reporting they needed to change the url to something different from what worked before.

demented_are_go · 03-27-2006, 01:52 PM

I tried the bugzilla fix, the one for the auth type not changing and evolution always reverting back, it didn't change a thing. I'm out of ideas at this point, I might just try to go back to an old version of evolution, even though that'll be painful.

kernel-panic · 03-31-2006, 01:28 PM

I was having a similar issue, but with a clean install of Fedora 5 and Evolution 2.6.0. I found that there was an update released for the evolution-connector to version 2.6.0.1. I've applied this update and things are fairly stable now. Also, I found that the way I was configuring the url and user ID had to be entered a specific way or I wouldn't even have the ability to try to authenticate. I suggest running the update and then trying to change the url.

Good luck.