Re: [Evolution] Evolution-ews is not working

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> The application just asking me to provide a password.
> Recently I was able to configure the evolution, but I have to run it as root.

You should never have to run Evo as root, nor should you ever, ever do
so.  If you need to run as root to do something, then it's a
permissions problem.  What I suspect is that you have run it as root
and that has created some files with the wrong owner and now it can't
function properly as the user.

> Now, even if I'll run Evolution with sudo, the result will be the same.

As Patrick said, create a new Linux user and configure the account from
that - login to it properly, don't su or sudo or whatever. That will
gibe you confirmation that Evolution is working properly. Then in your
real account you will need to scrub out all the configuration and files
that Evolution has created and start again.

> I was tried many times to configure it and the result always different.
> Sometimes it is working (but only under root) sometimes not. But when
> Evolution appears to work there is a problem that it just hangs while
> updating the folders.
You need to run Evolution from the command line to see any errors that
are being produced - if that doesn't say anything constructive, you
need to run with debugging enabled to see where the problem is.

P.