Maybe i have found the reason.

I am using evolution-exchange to contact OWA. OWA/Exchange is holding an
address-book. If the address-book from OWA can not be reached there is a
general error message "can't contact ldap-server".

So evolution is not really trying to contact an ldap-server. Just the
error-message is wrong. It must be something like "can't contact (OWA)-Server"
instead of "can't contact ldap-server"

See also
http://alpha-unix.de/~iceroot/ubuntu/evolution-wrong-message.png

This can easily be reproduced. When evolution is asking for the password for
the OWA-address-book just use a wrong password. It can also be reproduced, when
composing a message, click on "To" to open the address-book dialog and remove
the Lan-cable.


Imo there should be two things:

1. dont use ldap in the error-message when the target is not ldap
2. dont say "can't be reached" when the credentials are wrong (also see my bug
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668837)

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #668837
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668837

** Changed in: evolution-exchange (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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