From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: It's quite difficult to set up the Evolution connector properly Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Evolution with evolution-connector installed 2. Start creating a new Exchange account 3. In the 2nd Receiving Email dialog, mistakenly enter your email address e.g. "john.doe" rather than "john.doe" Actual Results: Evolution allows you to do this, and fails with a dialog saying: "Could not find Exchange Web Storage System at http://SERVER-NAME/exchange/john.doe@example.com/. If OWA is running on a different path, you must specify that in the account configuration dialog." Expected Results: Evolution should either: (i) strip off the @ and subsequent characters (ii) complain about them and not allow such input (iii) have a UI of the form: [text entry box] [label saying: @domainname] making it clearer what's going on. Additional info:
Step 3 above should read: In the 2nd Receiving Email dialog, for the "Mailbox" field, mistakenly enter your email address rather than the mailbox name e.g. "john.doe" rather than "john.doe"
As it turns out, I was wrong about this; we encountered a customer site where some of the mailbox names do indeed contain "@" characters - and some don't. The bug here is really "the connector is far too hard to set up manually". The ximian-connector-setup tool makes it far easier, and we probably should recommend using this, and provide an automated version of it for mass deployments. Closing this as NOTABUG; I'll open up another bug suggesting a better way of doing configuration