Re: [Evolution] endless password prompt

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 10:54 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> This is a troublesome problem that has affected all versions of 
> evolution I have used up to and including 3.16.3.   If the e-mail 
> service provided has technical problems, and evolution cannot 
> connect with provider's server, for example, evolution puts out this 
> error and it effectively "locks" the account until evolution can 
> again make contact with the server.  There should be a user-
> controllable option in evolution to ignore such errors.

        Hi,
it's weird. I'm pretty sure 3.16.x doesn't "lock" the account when the
destination server is not reachable, it moves it to offline mode. It's
a correct thing, though it's harder to detect server availability when
the issue is on the server side and not with the local connection
(like in case of mail servers being accessed only through VPN; once
the VPN connection is established evolution notices network
connectivity change and re-tries to contact the server; similarly when
the VPN is turned off; there are no such notifications in case of the
destination server errors). I consider these two things different,
though they might have the same outcome.

By the way, right-clicking the account name and choosing "Refresh"
checks the connection to the server again. Or did you mean another
kind of user control on this?
        Bye,
        Milan