It's Baaaaaaaack! Along with 12.10 Quantal came a new version of Evolution. While I've noticed a couple fixes/improvements, it is now even more unstable than it had been, and this repeated prompting for password makes it virtually unusable.
If anyone is still watching this in spite of it having been expired, perhaps it can be re-opened (or a new bug report created? let me know). Here is some more info that may or may not be pertinent: I use Evolution for a number of email accounts on several different servers, all POP/SMTP. Among my accounts are TWO Yahoo Mail accounts. This problem seems to only affect ONE of my two Yahoo accounts, and none of the others. Sometimes once this has happened, it eventually gets a "TCP connection refused by peer" error, followed by spontaneous and sudden closure of Evolution upon next attempted mail fetch cycle. By now any sane person would probably have changed email clients, but Evolution has one feature I've not seen in another client: the ability to call a shell script as a signature; I use this in conjunction with fortune-mod to generate random taglines. (speaking of signatures, that's become somewhat messed up in the latest version, but that's fodder for another bug report) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86670 Title: Flurry of password requests make evolution unusable with down email server Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool: Expired Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: evolution Sometimes my ISP's email server is down/misconfigured for whatever reason. When this happens evolution becomes unusable, popping up the password dialog every 5 seconds. I'd like an option that allows me to say, "my password is correct, the server is broken right now" rather than pointlessly having to retype my password over and over. Alternatively, the approach used in newer versions of GAIM could be used, where a prominent (red) button is displayed in the main window indicating a disconnection (but no dialog is popped up), clicking the button brings up an appropriate prompt. Assuming that my email server is going to be live 100% of the time is just not possible (especially as I have multiple accounts). Cheers, To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/86670/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
