Description of problem: Since upgrading to the 2.0.4 package of Evolution, I am prompted for a password when attempting to read news.gmane.org groups. This did not happen with version 2.0.2; and AFAICT, there is no password. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.4-1 How reproducible: Consistently.
I have the same problem.
The problem appears to be related to having the username field filled in the the account settings. When emptied, things appear to start working. Note that Evolution fills this field automatically when creating a new account.
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This problem is still present in FC5.
thanks!
Thanks for filing this bug report. I'm sorry that it has gone for so long without activity. Reassigning to mbarnes.
Is this problem still present in Fedora Core 6?
Yes, Evolution 2.8.2.1 still automatically fills the Username field when creating a new account. And, yes, news servers that do not require a user name do not function as long as that field is filled. However, rather than prompting for a password, Evolution just indefinitely displays "Loading" when attempting to expand the list of newsgroups under the account name.
The distribution against which this bug was reported is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora Core 6, or Fedora 7, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. Thanks in advance.
The problem described in comment #8 still exists in Evolution 2.10.3.
I see there that "Loading..." but it's the only bug here, not the user name. The Loading text will disappear on next start when you do Folder->Subscription. If you cancel the password dialog, then it will work, so there is no need to change this, I can see more people yelling why it didn't copied their user name. So let it be as is. The pity thing is that you will need to subscribe to each directory when you change anything on the server settings, but I really do not see anything bad on it. I will move part about "forgotten" "Loading..." node upstream [1]. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498551
Patch from upstream bug mentioned above is in 2.12.3. Are you fine with my above explanation?
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.
I was not the reporter, but I watched this bug because I had experienced it too. I have just tried again and it seems to have been resolved upstream. I would suggest that you can resolve to UPSTREAM.