Bug 1294825

Summary:	cannot add imap "online account" due to proxy settings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ian Dall <ian>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Milan Crha <mcrha>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	brian, control-center-maint, extras-qa, jhaar, lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha, mkasik, ofourdan, rstrode, tpopela
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Description Ian Dall 2015-12-30 14:05:01 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #969247 +++

Description of problem:

Setting up IMAP or POP accounts fail when a HTTP proxy is set. Evolution gives 
 an error "HTTP proxy connection not allowed" that implies it's trying to also route that session through the HTTP proxy - which will never work, as it's a HTTP proxy, not an arbitrary protocol proxy ;-)


This was originally posted as a control-center problem but I see this with evolution running under xfce

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up access via proxy
2. add "IMAP and SMTP" online account
3. start evolution and attempt to collect mail.

Actual results:

I get

error connecting to imap server 
proxy protocol 'http' not supported
Also, sending mail fails: it seems to be trying to route smtp via the HTTP proxy as well.


Expected results:

It should not use any HTTP proxy settings for non http protocol. 

A workaround is to unset http_proxy environment variable before running evolution but this is not very friendly.

Comment 1 Brian J. Murrell 2015-12-30 14:12:48 UTC

FWIW, I think the proper approach here is to have bug #969247 reopened.  I asked for the Version: field of that bug to be updated here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969247#c7 but it was ignored and the bug was closed EOL prematurely.

If this problem really does still exist on F23, bug #969247 should just be reopened.

Perhaps somebody with the power to do so, could do so and close this as a duplicate of that bug?

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2016-01-19 17:04:46 UTC

Thanks for a bug report, or a clone of one. I agree with Brian, but we can start here too.

I'm a bit confused.

"Cannot add imap 'online account'" suggests this is about GNOME Online Account and not about Evolution itself.

Neither evolution, nor evolution-data-server, sources reference "http_proxy" environment variable. I see it referenced in glib-networking, something around libproxy, but it only sets and unsets it, it doesn't directly read it.

To be honest, I do not know how this all works together, the IMAPx (and evolution-data-server in general) uses other libraries to connect to the servers, it's glib stream these days. How that works with respect of the proxy I do not know.

By the way, when you say "set up access via proxy", where do you do that? System wide? What is set in the evolution, Edit->Preferences->Network Preferences? You can setup there a proxy for SOCKS, which is the one which should be used by the IMAPx/SMTP account.

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