Evolution will not connect to Gmail

[Thomas Sisson]

You're going to say this is not a bug. You may call it a feature request or any of many other not-a-bug issues. However, Evolution is locked into Gnome and many of the features and abilities of Gnome. I can use Thunderbird with no problem, but I can only use Evolution calendar in Gnome. (Is Gnome trying to be Microsoft?)

Anyway, we all know the issue. Evolution is buggy at best. Evolution will not connect to Gmail or Google Apps. It won't let me access my Google Calendar if I cannot access my email. This could be separated as well, but it's not at this time. Google uses OAuth, and you have to live under a rock to know it. I have gone through all the steps to allow an insecure application to access Gmail, but Evolution spontaneously decides I'm offline because it does not receive the proper response from Google Mail servers.

Please fix it, or at least untie Evolution from Gnome.

By the way, fixing it in a later version is not a fix. If you are using an unfixed version and the fixed version is not available for the version of Ubuntu one is using, it's not fixed.

Getting off my soapbox.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 27 20:40:59 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-24 (34 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Thomas,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with GMail calendar in Evolution. You made this bug report in 2016 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Evolution since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 1617675
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Evolution better.
G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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