Comment 22 for bug 140460

I've now had another look at the possible interaction with Network-Manager.

Basically I removed Network-Manager from my system and manually configured the (wireless ethernet) connection to the internet.

The symptom of asking for for the password and then looping continued to exist. So it looks like Network-Manager is not the culprit.

Using the PPP connection (set up through GnomePPP) and a modem card continues to work properly; Evolution then starts offline; when put online by clicking the connect button it connects and just asks for the password once, going on to work normally.

As others have observed, starting Evolution in a terminal with the --offline option also works. (Although I notice that the camel error messages still appear in the console).

For me what happens here is that when using the --offline switch Evolution still appears to start in online mode; I guess that this means it is detecting the network connection and switching itself to online immediately. Anyway, the password behaviour is then normal, which is at least a fix of the symptom.

I can also confirm that shutting down Evolution in folders other than inbox leads to a clean start.

As a temporary fix of the symptom I've added the --offline switch after --component=mail in the Gnome Panel launcher for Evolution. This seems to work ok for now.

(I also notice that if running in conditions where the password dialogue loops, cancelling the first dialogue before entering a password leads to normal correct operation if mail pickup is initiated manually.)