[arch-general] evolution-ews, does it work?
I'm seeing strange behaviour in evolution when adding an EWS account, so I'm wondering if others are having problems with it, or if the blame falls squarely on the exchange server I'm trying to connect to. My system is up-to-date: % pacman -Q|grep evolution evolution 3.12.2-1 evolution-data-server 3.12.2-1 evolution-ews 3.12.2-1 I can, seemingly successfully, configure an EWS account. During config I can fetch the OAB URL, which ought to indicate that at least something's working as it's supposed to. However, once I finish the account is nowhere to be found. Indeed, when I restart evolution I get thrown back into configuring an account again. It would be great to hear if anyone is using the standard Arch package of evolutin-ews successfully. Then I can be pretty sure that my problems are caused by our (rather clueless) sysadmins. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
I've been using it at work for a couple years now. The OAB URL is incorrectly detected (it picks up our external domain name), but it works without a hitch after I modify that URL to use the local server IP. Did you try to delete ~/.config/evolution to start fresh? Is there anything at all in there, especially the sources folder, after you've tried to create an account? Cheers, On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 09:42 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
I'm seeing strange behaviour in evolution when adding an EWS account, so I'm wondering if others are having problems with it, or if the blame falls squarely on the exchange server I'm trying to connect to.
My system is up-to-date:
% pacman -Q|grep evolution evolution 3.12.2-1 evolution-data-server 3.12.2-1 evolution-ews 3.12.2-1
I can, seemingly successfully, configure an EWS account. During config I can fetch the OAB URL, which ought to indicate that at least something's working as it's supposed to. However, once I finish the account is nowhere to be found. Indeed, when I restart evolution I get thrown back into configuring an account again.
It would be great to hear if anyone is using the standard Arch package of evolutin-ews successfully. Then I can be pretty sure that my problems are caused by our (rather clueless) sysadmins.
/M
-- Maxime
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:04:39AM +0200, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
I've been using it at work for a couple years now. The OAB URL is incorrectly detected (it picks up our external domain name), but it works without a hitch after I modify that URL to use the local server IP.
Then it's most likely an issue with the exchange server here. I double checked now, and the OAB URL picked up is for the internally visible server name.
Did you try to delete ~/.config/evolution to start fresh? Is there anything at all in there, especially the sources folder, after you've tried to create an account?
I've deleted that folder when I've wanted to be sure I'm starting for a clean setup, yes. Yes, it seems the account does end up in ~/.config/evolution/sources/. It doesn't show up in the GUI though. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus As long as there are ill-defined goals, bizarre bugs, and unrealistic schedules, there will be Real Programmers willing to jump in and Solve The Problem, saving the documentation for later. Long live Fortran! -- Ed Post
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