Comment 159 for bug 631395

William, you are (of course) exactly correct and I am (duly) embarassed.
So I set to maverick-proposed, and did the above (from jeti), and evolution is WORSE.
I have a serious flat spot on my head from trying to resolve this issue on my system.
Ubuntu really has egg on its face over this. Fedora is looking better every day.

By WORSE, I mean that it freezes when it starts, that is, two popusp occur. One asks if I want to make evolution my default mail tool and the other asks or a possword on the system. I cannot type in the password, or answer the question from the first window because they are both not responsive. In order to get rid of them, I have to kill -9 evolution.

Definitely not ready for prime time!

But thanks for your help! It got me past my own error for sure.