[Evolution] Lost connection to Evolution Exchange backend process

["Noble, Leigh DR. MATH" <leigh noble usma edu>]

Hello Evolution world,

I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) with kernel 2.6.17-10-386. I have Evolution
2.8.1 with exchange to connect to my work email and have been happily
using Evolution for over a year.

Everything has been working fine until yesterday. Since yesterday I
constantly receive the error:
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Error while refreshing folder:
Lost connection to Evolution Exchange backend process
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The error occurs either as soon as I enter my email password, or shortly
thereafter when I try to actually read the new mail. It is happening
every time I try to use evolution and I can't consistently read the text
of any mail messages.

Help...what steps might I take to try and resolve this? The ubuntu
automatic package manager alerted me to install some security fixes
yesterday morning, which I did. Perhaps this is realated to those
security fixes??... If so, how might I figure out whether I need to
report a bug against one of those packages vs some other problem??

--Leigh