Re: [Evolution] syncing Gmail contacts

[Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>]

On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 14:23 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Here you say use GOA, but in other posts the recommendation is to
> > NOT
> > use GOA for Gmail due to the calendar issues that occur every day
> > around 5pm Eastern time.
> >
> > So which is it? Use GOA or not us GOA?
>
> The OP is using an ancient version of Evolution (3.12.x) which does
> not
> have native OAuth2, hence contacts doesn't work. The advice for that
> version of Evolution (and up to 3.16.x I believe) was to provision
> accounts using GOA.
>
> This is exactly why we always keep going on at people to tell us the
> version of Evolution they are using - things change between versions,
> sometimes there are significant changes, sometimes not, but unless
> you
> take note of the version being used it's very easy to lead people
> astray.
>
> Actually, TBH, neither was there any advice in later versions to not
> use GOA because of whatever calendar problems.  It is recommended
> that
> you use native Evolution methods wherever possible as Evolution has
> more control over them - but it is actually the Evolution
> implementation of Google calendar accounts that was having problems,
> not the GOA one.
>
> P.

Right, and I always have problems with Google Calendars in Evo 3.20.5
with Fedora 24.
I read once that 3.22.5 should be somewhere in the Fedora Test
Repositories, but I never found them
Still waiting...

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