Public bug reported:
You're going to say this is not a bug. You may call it a feature request
or any of many other not-a-bug issues. However, Evolution is locked into
Gnome and many of the features and abilities of Gnome. I can use
Thunderbird with no problem, but I can only use Evolution calendar in
Gnome. (Is Gnome trying to be Microsoft?)
Anyway, we all know the issue. Evolution is buggy at best. Evolution
will not connect to Gmail or Google Apps. It won't let me access my
Google Calendar if I cannot access my email. This could be separated as
well, but it's not at this time. Google uses OAuth, and you have to live
under a rock to know it. I have gone through all the steps to allow an
insecure application to access Gmail, but Evolution spontaneously
decides I'm offline because it does not receive the proper response from
Google Mail servers.
Please fix it, or at least untie Evolution from Gnome.
By the way, fixing it in a later version is not a fix. If you are using
an unfixed version and the fixed version is not available for the
version of Ubuntu one is using, it's not fixed.
Getting off my soapbox.
Thanks
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 27 20:40:59 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-24 (34 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug package-from-proposed xenial
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