Bug 711080 - Evolution keeps asking password if server is unavailable
Summary: Evolution keeps asking password if server is unavailable
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
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Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-06 13:31 UTC by Dieter Vandenbroeck
Modified: 2011-06-17 13:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-17 12:57:00 UTC
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Description Dieter Vandenbroeck 2011-06-06 13:31:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
Evolution prompts to enter the password, although the server is unavailable.

"Unable to authenticate to IMAP server. 
 Server unavailable. 15

 Please enter the IMAP password for <account> on host <host>"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Evolution 3.0.1


How reproducible:
No idea, server is usually always up.


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Connection to server fails, evolution tries to reconnect every x minutes.

Expected results: 
Connection to server fails, evolution prompts for password every time you click 'ok' and the connection is not re-established.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2011-06-07 05:23:20 UTC 
Thanks for a bug report. What provider are you using, please? Is it IMAP or IMAP+?
Comment 2 Dieter Vandenbroeck 2011-06-07 08:12:41 UTC 
It is IMAP+.

The mail account creating the error was my student mail account of the KULeuven (University in Belgium).
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2011-06-17 12:57:00 UTC 
Thanks for the update. I tried to reproduce this, but I wasn't able, I could get the "Server unavailable" error for my server, even when I make them unavailable by dropping vpn or disconnecting from the network.

Nonetheless, I believe it's correct bug report, and I'm moving it upstream [1], to have upstream developer to look at it. Please CC there yourself, in case the upstream developer will have additional questions. Thanks in advance.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652826
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