Should not force to configure a mail account to use the calendar

[DiegoCG]

The gnome calendar is integrated with evolution. Good thing. Now, when I install
ubuntu and try to add a event to the calendar, a wizard is launched asking me to
tell my email account (!!)

I don't have an email account, I use gmail. And anyway - I'm trying to add a
calendar event, nothing related at all with email. But it's worse, apparently I
can't launch evolution without configuring an email account. It asks me to
configure my outgoing email, and I can't get rid of that screen by setting my
outgoing email to "sendmail" (which is somewhat weird since ubuntu doesn't
install senamdil, maybe it wants to mean "local email server") It also asks me
to set my local time configuration, despite of having already set that to
"Europe/Madrid" in the install...

IOW: I don't think that it should annoy the user at all when adding a calendar
event.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321705: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321705

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded your request upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321705

[Andrew Slack (andrewslack)]

A partial workaround is to disable certain plugins, but I found this made Evolution unstable, and every now and then it would crash. After it had crashed, it brought up the email wizard again. In the end the easiest thing was to configure a non-existent account then set it offline. I agree this needs fixing, but this is a usable workaround in the meantime.

[Ask Greve Jørgensen (askgreve)]

I think the wizard that's run first time evolution starts, should check to see if there is an existing ~/.evolution folder, and bypass the setup wizard if the folder is present. It would make it easier to migrate mail, calendars, etc. You would just have to move the folder from your home directory on the old computer to the new one. Also, an option to bypass the startup wizard, would be great, as I figure the bugreport suggests. The non-existent-account-workaround works for this as well, so I guess the importance of the bug should still be Wishlist.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Bug from 2011. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2017-06-28
so fixed in recent versions of Ubuntu.