Re: [Evolution] Evolution & Gmail not working correctly

[Richard Bown <richard g8jvm com>]

On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 17:16 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I found a few recent threads, going month to month in the archive,
> > and
> > there is nothing new there, that I haven't already tried.
>
> Configuring the accounts using Gnome online Accounts usometimes gets
> around the issue.  But the underlying issue is that it's a fixed bug
> in
> Evolution, but the fix is for 3.28.3+
>
> > updating to 3.30 from what I observed trying to figure out how,
>
> You don't need to go to 3.30, in fact that might introduce other
> issues
> if your underlying Gnome system is still on 3.28
>
> >  is 
> > more complicated than it really should be and too much of a risk vs
> > time at the moment; one of linux's biggest problems, IMHO.  It used
> > to
> > be real bad updating things, but I will admit it has gotten
> > tremendously better;  but it seems there are a few exceptions.
>
> It all depends on your distro.  LTS or Enterprise versions tend not
> to
> majorly update things for stability. But whereas most such distros
> are
> happy to update minor versions because they are usually bug fixes,
> Ubuntu, for some reason, seems to stick to the same minor version -
> i.e. 3.28.1, whereas it should be on 3.28.5.
>
> I'm afraid your best bet is to ask on the Ubuntu forums for advise on
> how to get to at least 3.28.3 - there may be some repository (or
> whatever they call them!) or some simple way of compiling things your
> self.
>
> P.
>
>
>
>
>
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Hi
You could of course look here
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/3.28.5-1
then look under builds for your architecture amd64 etc

hth
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 Richard Bown
 
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