Re: [Evolution] No provider available for protocol `exchange'

[Erik Pinzon <erik thechildrenstrust org>]

Title: No provider available for protocol `exchange'

I don't know about Evolution-2.0.4, but on 2.0.3 the freezes while accessing the calendar were mostly because of a cache file growing out of proportion.

In our setup, for some users with large calendars (lots of recurring entries), and specially with some recurring meetings being re-scheduled or canceled, Evolution would eventually start trashing (the Exchange-Storage process would eat up all available memory and then some of the swap) and the entire box slows down to a crawl.

The solution: remove the file $HOME/.evolution/exchange/<username>@<server>/personal/subfolders/Calendar/cache.ics

Better yet, open the file with a text editor and try to determine what meetings/dates would repeat over and over, then delete the file (it would be 50MB or more, when it should be less than 1MB for users with busy Calendars) and remove the calendar entries that are causing the problem.

Hope it helps,

Erik.
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:50 -0600, Tom Regier wrote:
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>     Hello,
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>     I had been using the Evolution package that came with Fedora Core 3 but I couldn't access my calendar.  When I clicked the 'Calendar' box under my exchange account, Evolution would freeze.  Then I downloaded the source for Evolution-2.0.4, along with the other required packages, and build them.  Now when I start evolution I get the following message:
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>     "(evolution:20031): evolution-mail-WARNING **: couldn't get service exchange://regiert srv-mail-01 clsi ca/;pf_server=srv-mail-01.clsi.ca;owa_path=/exchange;mailbox=tom.regier;ad_limit=500;ad_server: No provider available for protocol `exchange'"
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>     Evolution still starts and I can access the exchange calendar, address book and tasks, but I can access the exchange mail account.  Does anyone know what could be preventing evolution-mail from accessing the server, while the other parts of evolution have no trouble?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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>     Tom Regier 
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