Re: [Evolution] Changes in Usenet account handling?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

might be able to fix it by re-creating the account.

or if not, editing the account details in gconf, there will be some url like nntp://@host/ - remove the empty user, i.e. rmeove the "@".

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 13:46 -0700, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 18:23 +0100, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> > I had a Usenet News account configured without username and it used to
> > work fine on 2.0.2 (server checks at the IP level) but it doesn't seem
> > to work anymore on 2.0.4, it stalls on 'Loading...' while I try to
> > expand the account to reveal the folders (i.e. groups). Obviously
> > putting a username in the configuration leads to a password popup dialog
> > which is useless.
>
> Yes, IIRC this was a bug where an invalid URL was passed with "" as the
> username and/or passwd.  It's fixed in 2.2, FWIW.