Re: [Evolution] occasional authentication problem

[Carl Schaefer <schaefer trilug org>]

On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 08:50 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 10:48 -0400, Carl Schaefer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:20 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > > there is some unfinished work here. Currently, once you cancel the
> > > password prompt the evolution-source-registry "remembers" that this
> > > process cancelled the password prompt for this account and then does the
> > > cancel for you automatically. The only current way to workaround this is
> > > to close evolution, thus the evolution-source-registry process will
> > > forget the connection between the cancel and the client process. There
> > > is no other workaround than what you do.
> >
> > this seems pretty clearly to be a bug in Evolution.  If there's not
> > already a bug report on this, I'll open one.
>
>       Hi,
> right, and the link is:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678843

yikes, almost two years old...  Would it be reasonable to add behavior
to the existing account "Refresh" operation to clear the "authentication
canceled" flag?

> I marked yours 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729818
> as a duplicate of it.

can you also update the version so that bug is more clearly still
relevant?
Carl