Major problems with Exchange integration.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| evolution-exchange (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
Yikes, where to start with this one?
I'm running Feisty H2 and Evolution 2.9.6 on this laptop. At install time I was able to successfully install and configure Evolution to work with Exchange.
Over the past couple of weeks Evolution has gotten increasingly "cranky" working against our internal Exchange 2003 server.
It started with a sudden flurry of error messages about the back-end process shutting down, then it progressed to not being able to access the Global Catalog, then I had to type my password in every time I accessed an Exchange resource, then it couldn't access the calender, and finally this morning it stopped accessing email.
My Evolution 2.8.1 install on the Edgy computer next to me is working just fine so I susptect it's not my configuration or my Exchange server.
I tried deleting the Exchange account and re-creating it but the setup would never again give me the server address field. Without being able to tell it what server to access recreating an account obviously did not work.
Anyway, to try and "fix" the issue(s) I did an apt-get remove evolution evolution-
Then I did an apt-get install evolution evolution-common evolution-
Not only did this not fix anything, Evolution also retained all the settings from my previous two accounts and still would not give me a server field to tell it where my Exchange server was!
I'll go a-googling for answers on how to *completely* remove Evolution so I can try another re-install but right now I see some serious problems.
1) Why did Evolution start having problems when nothing in it's configuration had changed? Obviously one of the updates busted it, but which one and why?
2) Why does deleting an "Exchange" account not remove it's settings from whatever config file they are stored in?
3) Why, when recreating an "Exchange" account, are you not presented with the Exchange
Server address field?
4) Why does doing a complete uninstall of Evolution not remove *all* of it's configuration files and settings?
| description: | updated |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in evolution: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Needs Info |
| Clifford Gindulis (cliff-gindulis) wrote | #2 |
| Clifford Gindulis (cliff-gindulis) wrote | #3 |
| Marcio Conceicao (ubuntu-marcioconceicao) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in evolution-exchange: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | Needs Info → Unconfirmed |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #5 |
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in evolution-exchange: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in evolution-exchange: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Thank you for your bug. The removal from packages doesn't remove user datas, that's a design decision, there is no reason a package should modifiy your datas. The datas are to the user and that's to user to decide if he wants to keep them or clean them. The account configurations are stored to gconf (.gconf/