Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution does not update mail folders when configured with gnome online accounts

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

	Hi,
I would say that this belongs to evolution-list, rather than here,
because evolution-hackers list is for developers, while evolution-list
is for users. 

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 10:10 +0200, Hilary Wright wrote:
> I am using Evolution 3.4.2 on Fedora 17 beta. I have installed all
> updates as of today 16 May.
> 
> I have been using Evolution for years, manually setting up my Google
> accounts from within Evolution and was able to get mail, calendars and
> contacts all working great. Until now.
> 
> Because I cannot get to Google contacts by configuring Evolution
> accounts manually from within Evolution any more, I searched for an
> alternative.

That should still work, my older F17 lets me choose addressbook type
Google, in File->New->Addressbook. I suppose you'll have it there too.

> So, I configured my gnome online accounts to point to Google. I have
> three.
> 
> Mail, Calendars and Contacts are configured automatically. Contacts
> work, Calendars work, but there is a problem with mail.
> 
> Now when I start Evolution, it shows the Google email accounts and
> their folder trees correctly, but it does not update the messages
> automatically on start.
> 
> When I click the send/receive button only the Inbox of each email
> account is updated. I have filters applied in Google mail which send
> messages directly to the relevant folder, bypassing the Inbox.
> 
> Is Evolution supposed to update all folders? If so this would appear
> to be a bug.

I agree, it sounds like a bug, same as the behaviour you described
below.
	Bye,
	Milan

> Or is this not yet implemented? In which case I would request that it
> should be.
> 
> Now, if I go into preferences, account settings, I see that the
> options 'check every 10 mins' and 'check all folders are not ticked'.
> I try to enable them but the Apply button is greyed out. 
> I see that the port for the imap server is set to '0'. If I change
> this to '993' the apply button gets activated and I can tick the
> options and apply them.
> However, when I stop and restart Evolution I get an error message
> saying that Evolution 'Cannot find a corresponding account in the
> org.gnome.OnlineAccounts service from which to obtain an
> authentication service.
> 
> So applying the options manually is no solution.
> 
> To restore things to the 'default' position, I delete the changed
> account manually in the Preferences/account settings. On restart
> Evolution creates the account again. 
> 
> Any work-a-rounds would be greatly appreciated as not having the
> folders updated is a real problem for me.
> 
> BTW creating the accounts manually in Evolution does solve the problem
> BUT there is no way to enable google contacts without setting up the
> account in online accounts and if I do that I get the mail account
> twice!