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

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 16:30 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> > After writing this, I was thinking that this may be related to that
> > on this EWS account, I get authentication errors all the time.
>
> Errors like what? Could you copy&paste it here (with anything private
> in it replaced), please?

The error that comes, is this:

Failed to refresh folder "accountname:Inbox".
The reported error was “Authentication failed”

> Did also libsoup change? I think of:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/merge_requests/54

I have checked the pacman log but no libsoup update around the same time

> > I can then just close the message and the account works without any
> > problems again , for a while. Maybe this behaviour has been changed
> > in the latest verson and that when the authentication error happens,
> > Evolution now sets the account offline?
>
> I'm not aware of any related change off head (which doesn't mean there
> didn't change anything with it; if you can downgrade only evolution-
> data-server and evolution to 3.32.2, then you'll verify whether it was
> really that - if trying, then do not forget to restart the machine). If
> it's about those auth errors, then better to address them, than to live
> with them and workaround them by some other means.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

Ok, I have downgraded evolution and evolution-data-server and now I am back to the way it was. i.e. I get 
errors about authenticaion errors but when I
just open another email, Evolution continues to work as nothing has happend.

About the authentication erros, we had a go on this for a while ago but did not really come to any 
conclusions.. 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. 
(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..)


BTJ