Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 147779
NNTP fails without user/password
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:00 EST
Since upgrading to Evolution 2.1.5 I can no longer connect to my local news server. Authentication is purely by the connecting IP address; the client isn't required to authe nticate. But Evolution insists on trying. I enter no username and it still asks for a password. Hitting cancel prevents it connecting, hitting OK causes it to give bogus login attempts... NNTP_STREAM_LINE(77): '200 news.aaisp.net.uk NNRP Service Ready - support@aaisp.net.uk (posting ok).' NNTP_COMMAND: 'authinfo user ' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(27): '501 user Name|pass Password' NNTP_COMMAND: 'authinfo user ' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(27): '501 user Name|pass Password' NNTP_COMMAND: 'authinfo user ' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(27): '501 user Name|pass Password' CamelException.set(0x10eb7388, 3, 'User cancelled operation.') Thread 321704e0 > Get folder info(0x102e2098:nntp://@news.aaisp.net.uk/, '<null>') =
This affects 2.0.4-1 in FC3 updates-testing too.
this bug still exists on evolution evolution-2.0.4-2 on FC3 updates-released i386 (I'm gonna test on x86_64 later). Same thing that happens to David. Server authentication is made by IP and evolution always tries to authenticate. A ethereal dump shows the same stuff. (dumps of evolution and thunderbird are available if needed , but it's basically the same stuff that david posted).
You can work around this issue by going into gconf-editor, and editing apps/evolution/mail/accounts, and in the entry for the news account, remove the '@' from the nntp:// url.
When rebuilding my own evolution-data-server package to fix this and also bug #147780, bug #151121 and the one about it checking for mail even in inactive folders, I found that this seems to have been fixed already. Closing accordingly.