Observations that may be of help (maybe not): I too have this problem, or some version thereof (It seams to effect everyone differently).
Evolution has never asked me for a password just to start up. It always launches fine. I have the auto retrieve setting at 10 minutes for all accounts. I have several accounts from several providers. I also have 7 accounts for my business, with addresses to my own website something@mydomain. Each account has a different password and each password has at least one special character: !@#$... At any given time/day (completely at random) I too get one or more "can not authenticate" prompts asking for the password to one or more email accounts. They all are affected, and which one is affected at any given time is also completely random If It prompts me for a GMail account password (3 accounts) It only asks for the one, and repeats every ten minutes even when I type in the password, it does not accept it. For my business accounts however, It sometimes asks for the passwords of all of them (7 accounts), but not always. closing and restarting evolution works sometimes, sometimes "Kill All" is necessary, and sometimes I have to reboot the PC. To me it looks like this behavior just may be triggered by different events. I have had similar messages (a few each year) with Thunderbird too, but mainly with Gmail (server overload???) once or twice with Hotmail. Never with my own domain. I am on Ubuntu Studio 16.4 with Xfce4 Evolution 3.18.5.2 (still way better than Firefox!) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299604 Title: evolution keeps asking for password To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1299604/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
