Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 429298
Asking for global address list server password when global catalogue server is not set
Last modified: 2008-03-11 23:15:09 EDT
Description of problem: I have an email account set up using the exchange connector, but I don't have anything entered into the global catalogue server name box, since the GAL server isn't accessible from off-site (although the OWA server is). Nonetheless, when composing a message, it asks for a global address list password, which is pointless. Also, I have another account set up to access an imap server. When I compose a message using that account, it still asks for a global address list password, which is even more bizarre. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.12.2-3.fc8 evolution-data-server-1.12.2-1.fc8 evolution-webcal-2.12.0-1.fc8 evolution-data-server-1.12.2-1.fc8 evolution-2.12.2-3.fc8 evolution-exchange-2.12.2-1.fc8 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set up two accounts in evolution - one to access an imap account, the other to access a MS outlook web access account but with nothing set for the global catalogue server 2.Compose a message using either identity 3. Actual results: As above - asks for a global address list passwd. Expected results: Should not be trying to access a global address list if global catalogue server is not set. Should not be trying to access a global addres list when using an imap account Additional info:
Um, ok, perhaps this is not so much of a bug but rather a badly designed feature of the gui - of course the problem goes away completely if I unselect the GAL in the "Autocompletion" tab of the Preferences dialogue. Having that enable itself by default even when no GAL server is specified is... dumb. In any case, it should be a per account option, not a global option - i.e. there should be an autocomplete tab for each account. If I did have a GAL server set for the exchange account, I would want it to query there when using the exchange account but not when using the other IMAP account.
Moving this upstream. Please see [1] for further updates. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521913