Re: [Evolution] Evolution is dying

[Jimmy Montague <rhetoric101 hughes net>]

I got rid of my old Ubuntu box. I dug into my closet -- excuse me, my 
computer lab -- and came out with a little Gateway Windoze 8 machine 
that I bought new and never used because I found that Windoze 8 gives me 
herpes.

Anyway, I tore the thing apart, formatted the hard drive, reset the 
bios, put it all back together and loaded in Mageia Linux 4. I used the 
Gnome interface, as was suggested here yesterday.

Certain I was now chopping tall cotton, I booted Evolution and set up an 
email account. That's when I found out that the problem was worse than 
before. Evolution can lose passwords faster than I can type them in. I 
fought with it for about two hours. Then I got pissed off, deleted 
Evolution and Mageia 4, reinstalled Ubuntu Linux and Thunderbird, and 
the problem went away (I thought).

That was 8 hours ago. I just now booted the machine and tried to check 
my email, but Thunderbird had lost -- not just the password, but the 
account itself. I had to create another one just like the other one so I 
could come over here and cry on you guys again.

Have I maybe got a virus of some kind on my home network? I don't think 
so because my landlady has a Windoze 7 machine in her bedroom, on this 
same network, and she doesn't have any problems. My own Windoze 7 
machine -- right here beside me -- doesn't have any problem.

Has anybody ever seen a mess like this in the history of the world? If 
you have, please let me know. FWIW, I'm typing this message now on my 
Gateway/Ubuntu/Thunderbird machine after I recreated the account that it 
lost during my 8-hour absence from the keyboard.

Thanks for any advice, observations, etc. I've never had anything like 
this happen to me before -- and I been a Windoze guy since 1989, when I 
was a DOS/Windoze guy, and had my share of problems with Microsoft over 
the years.

Now maybe some are going to think or say that I'm full of POOPOO and 
these things aren't really happening. I'm only here because I'm a 
Windoze troll raising hell with the Linux people. But it ain't so. I'm 
here because I'm REALLY STUMPED.

Jimmy

On 05/28/2014 05:34 PM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 06:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 13:07 +0200, Peter Von Kaehne wrote:
> > > Now, I do not expect that Evolution solves this particular problem.
> > The asking for a password again and again issue is only caused by
> > Evolution, other MUAs don't ask again and again. Sure, a server might
> > claim, "the password or something else fails", so the issue isn't caused
> > by Evolution, anyway, other MUAs care that the user has got much
> > comfort. This PITA is a PITA caused by Evolution! It's possible to
> > handle this issue much smarter, as quasi all other MUAs I know do.
> Yes. I suspect Evolution is doing something like:
>
>   - Socket connect success
>   - Start authentication
>   - Authentication fails for any reason including a network error
>   - Report authentication error
>   - Oh no, password must be wrong!
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