Re: [Evolution] Providing credentials with OAuth2

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 08:14 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 09:47 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Failed to connect calendar 'Gmail: Birthdays'
> > Credentials are required to connect to the destination host
>
>       Hi,
> it usually means that there had been some issue logging into the
> calendar, which would usually follow with a password prompt, but as
> this is an OAuth2 account, which has a token, not a password, then the
> code cannot ask for the password and reports this error instead.
>
> You said the error is occasional. Can it be that it works fine after
> login, but say an hour a little longer it fails this way? If it's so,
> or similar, then it can be due to the token being expired. It had been
> addressed only very recently, for the 3.22.0 version:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761450

I terminated Evo (all processes) and restarted. The message appeared
after about an hour, so it does look like this is the problem. Is there
any chance of the fix being backported to the current version (3.20)?
Most distros won't support 3.22 for several months yet, at a minimum.

poc