Re: [Evolution] Possible Bugs in 2.0.3

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

known bug, resolved in CVS already (as of a week ago)

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 16:05 -0500, Kevin wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:26 +0100, guenther wrote:
> <snip>
> > > 1) Evo refuses to retain an auth mech other than Password in the
> > > Receiving Mail tab of the Evolution Account Editor.
> > [ snip ]
> > >   Seems like a big problem to me.
> >
> > Yet another incarnation of the "storing auth method" bug?
> >
> > Please check, whether the UI just fails to report the chosen and used
> > auth method properly, or if this really is set to password. The auth
> > method is stored in GConf /apps/evolution/mail/accounts. 
>
> I took a look at the server logs and the authentication that is actually
> occuring is definitely plaintext+TLS, so Evolution is definitely doing
> it wrong here.  Looking at the info in gconf-editor, I don't even see an
> auth method stored for accessing the imap server (receiving account).  I
> see one correctly stored for the transport server, but not the receiving
> server.  Am I missing something?  I'm using gnome 2.8.2.
>
> > This setting is stored withing the <account> <source> <url> tag, in the
> > form user;auth=TYPE server IIRC.
>
> I see one like this for smtp but not for imap.  True for all of my 10 or
> so accounts.
>
> > This bug may be known and already fixed, if it is the same issue I
> > remember. In that case, it should be fixed in Evo 2.0.4.
>
> Well, as I said, 2.0.2 was buggy in a similar way (but with smtp and it
> was possible to go back in and change it once and it would stick), but
> that's been resolved in 2.0.3.  Unfortunately, this bug in 2.0.3 is even
> worse: it's not even possible to change the setting in Evo and have it
> stick.  Should I be able to change a key in gconf-editor and have it
> stick?  If so, what should the entire account key look like (for one
> account) in general?
>
> > > 2) Evo won't remember a zero-length password (associated with anonymous
> > > IMAP account at cmu).  There is no password on the account, and that's
> > > what I've entered in Evo, and I've asked evo to remember this password,
> > > but it asks me to re-enter it every time I start up.
> >
> > Oh well, a useless password? :)
> >
> > Please file it at bugzilla.ximian.com.
>
> Will do.
>
> Thanks for your reply , Guenther.
>
> -Kevin
> http://www.gnosys.us
>
>
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