Re: [Evolution] Authentication issue with gmail imap account

["John W. Himpel" <john jlhimpel net>]

On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 22:35 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I recently started getting authentication failed messages on my
> > gmail
> > imap accounts in evolution, so I went into gnome-online-accounts
> > and
> > deleted my gmail email account.  I then recreated the gmail online
> > accounts and was able to define the email accounts in evolution. 
>
> Did you recreate the account in GoA or did you create the accounts
> directly in Evolution?  The latter is definitely the way to go.
>
> >  I
> > seem to be interacting with the gmail imap system fine, but I keep
> > getting the following error messages in the GUI:
> >
> > Error while Checking for new mail at "user gmail com"
> > Failed to authenticate Coreresponding source for service with UID
> > "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" not found.
> >
> > According to the GNOME wiki, I should set the CAMEL_DEBUG
> > environment
> > variable, but I am unsure which value to use in CAMEL_DEBUG when
> > running evolution in debug mode while researching this problem.
> It's an IMAP account, but I don't think the error will be coming from
> IMAP.  You've blanked out the UID, is it a gmail address or is it an
> evolution internal UID?
>
> I suspect that you will need to remove all the gmail accounts,
> shutdown
> evolution and all its components ("evolution --force-shutdown") and
> then restart evolution and configure the gmail account within
> evolution
> (i.e. not a GoA account)
>
> P.
>
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I don't recall how I recreated the email accounts.

I have just now done the following:
1) Deleted gmail email account via Evolution
2) Checked Online Accounts and there were no entries for Google
3) evolution --force-shutdown  (had to perform twice to kill all
processes)
4) From Gnome Menu
   Evolution
      Edit
        Accounts
          Add
            Mail Account

I then filled out for with gmail account information.  I left the box
for "Look up mail server on the entered email address" checked.

I then clicked Next and the returned settings looked okay.

The gmail account showed up in Evolution with seemingly all the old
email present.

A short time later I received the following message:
Execution of filter "Mail from utube" failed: invalid folder URI "xxx"

The URI appeared to be a normal UID type string.

I then went back to the Gnome Menu
  Evolution
    Edit
      Preferences
        Select the gmail account
          Edit

  Receiving Options

I changed the setting for "Check new messages every 1 minutes" to 1
I selected "Check for new messages in all folders".

I clicked on "OK".


I restarted Evolution from the Gnome Menu.

There were no GUI displayed error messages on startup.
It is been 10 minutes and there have been no GUI displayed error
messages.

For at least now, that seems to have resolved the issue.

Thanks for the assistance.