Can't authenticate to exchange server after upgrade from 2.24.3 to 2.26.1

[Jan Newmarch]

Binary package hint: evolution

Could connect to exchange server okay from evolution 2.24.3 (Ubuntu 8.10). After upgrade to evolution 2.26.1 (Ubuntu 9.04) I can no longer authenticate to the server (message is "password incorrect?").

I still have the old distro on a separate partition, but I couldn't get exchange 2.24.3 to work any longer. When I used the old version I got: "Error while generating message list - table personal/inbox has 28 columns but 26 values were supplied." Not sure if these problems are related or not.

Connection to the exchange server by the web still works fine. Connection to a separate imap server works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org there is no ubuntu bug triager having access to exchange server

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[freeatlast (tolfree)]

I am having the same error. I am trying to connect to an exchange 2008 server, with the 2.2.6 connector in ubuntu 9.04, and get an authentication error or one saying the server cannot be found, or an unknown error.

[Jan Newmarch (jan-newmarch)]

It's working for me now, but in a strange kind of way. When I have the http proxy set then I cannot connect to the exchange server. When I turn the http proxy off, then I can. So at work I have to toggle the proxy on to surf the internet through our firewall, and toggle it back off in order to read email. This happens both with configuring firefox using its preferences menu to no proxy/manual/automatic proxy config url, or when the preference is set to "system proxy settings" and I use gconf to set the http proxy.

[freeatlast (tolfree)]

hmmm...I 'll try that. I just use my host machine and privoxy as a
proxy occasionally, but it is usually toggled off. I do not think the
exchange server has webdav enabled, it is also exchange 2007.

I have seen a number of reports about ex2007 and evolution, still keep
getting an unknown error preventing me from authenticating. IMAP
functions fine, but I really need the calendar feature.

Thanks

Ian

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 23:50 +0000, Jan Newmarch wrote:
> It's working for me now, but in a strange kind of way. When I have the
> http proxy set then I cannot connect to the exchange server. When I turn
> the http proxy off, then I can. So at work I have to toggle the proxy on
> to surf the internet through our firewall, and toggle it back off in
> order to read email. This happens both with configuring firefox using
> its preferences menu to no proxy/manual/automatic proxy config url, or
> when the preference is set to "system proxy settings" and I use gconf to
> set the http proxy.
>