Re: [Evolution] Evolution caught in endless authentication loop

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Sat, 2021-02-20 at 14:41 -0800, Ullrich Fischer via evolution-list
wrote:
> 549 incoming email messages ago (3 days), my Evolution email client
> stopped being able to send/receive email messages.  Whenever I hit
> that Send/Receive button, I get into an endless loop of the program
> asking me to authenticate with gmail.com.   I enter my gmail address
> and password, press Yes on my phone to acknowledge that it is me (2
> factor authentication), then accept the page that tells me all the
> things gnome can now do to my email.  In the past, (before 3 days
> ago) this process popped up whenever I rebooted my laptop and left
> Evolution fully functional until the next time I rebooted, but now it
> just goes right back to asking for my gmail authentication.    WTF?  
> Is there any fix for this on the horizon or should I try yet a 3rd
> email client for my Ubuntu 20.04 setup?  

You ask "is there a fix on the horizon" as if there is something wrong
with Evolution. Lots of people are happily using Evo with Gnome
accounts; there is probably something up with your configuration.

You don't say which desktop you are using, but make sure you have
gnome-keyring running (that's the application Evolution uses to store
the authentication credentials).

P.