Re: [Evolution] 3.16.1 issues (on Arch)

[Carl Schaefer <schaefer trilug org>]

> > I added a second instance
> > of the same Gmail account in Evolution, using the same preferences
> > settings, and no problem is reported for the new instance.
>
> That would be weird. There will be some difference, being it probably
> with the connection type or the way the account was added (like
> whether at the end you checked to add also calendar sources or not -
> that creates different type of the account configuration, even those
> can be exposed similarly in the UI). Evolution uses .source files in
> ~/.config/evolution/sources which describe the account. There are
> multiple (three) files for each mail account. Maybe you can compare
> those raw files for differences.

the old instance has source files with this structure:

[Collection]
  [Mail Composition]
  [Mail Account]
  [Mail Transport]

the new instance has these source files:

[Mail Account]
  [Mail Composition]
  [Mail Transport]

the old instance "Collection" file had this section:

[Authentication]
Host=
Method=none
Port=0
RememberPassword=true
User=
ProxyUid=system-proxy
CredentialName=

which looked troublesome, so I tried deleting it and found that the
connection error on startup went away, and no new problems have
appeared.  Thank you for pointing me towards the sources directory.

Carl