Re: [Evolution] EWS account goes offline after a while.

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 14:37 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 12:16 +0000, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > The error that comes, is this:
> >
> > Failed to refresh folder "accountname:Inbox".
> > The reported error was “Authentication failed”
>
>       Hi,
> you can try to run evolution with EWS debugging like this:
>
>    $ EWS_DEBUG=2 evolution
>
> and when this authentication error shows up, you can find it in the log
> and eventually see whether the server returned any additional
> information, which could not be shown in the GUI. Just in case.
>
> > Ok, I have downgraded evolution and evolution-data-server and now I
> > am back to the way it was.
>
> Hmm, I'd not expect that, but maybe this one "Change how
> CamelOfflineStore goes online" in eds is related. Eventually also
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/479
>
>
> > About the authentication erros, we had a go on this for a while ago
> > but did not really come to any conclusions..
>
> I'm sorry, that might be a long time ago.
>
> > The problem seems to be firewall related.. I can use the same version
> > of Evolution inside work (inside the LAN) and there I have no such
> > errors. But here at home, I have those errors.
>
> You should use the external EWS URL when you are not on the internal
> network. The servers can provide such addresses (one for internal and
> one for external access point). When you run with debugging on (as
> shown above) and in the EWS account Properties-> Receiving Email tab
> click "Fetch URL", you'll see some XML data related to autodiscover.
> That's what the server advertises. Search for Exchange.asmx there. It
> can also depend whether you use NTLM or Basic authentication, I think.
>
> > (But I am connected to the same mailserver from my iphone but I am
> > using activesync on my phone so I guess that's why I do not have the
> > same issues there..)
>
> Right, those are two different protocols. I do not know whether you've
> them available on the same server (host name).
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
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Just popping in to say that after upgrading to version 3.32.4, all my old and current problems seems to have 
vanished... :-)

BTJ