evolution not asking for password in natty

[Joakim Kargaard]

Binary package hint: evolution

When setting up evolution for the first time in a clean Natty install, all the settings are entered correctly but when sending/receiving, it does not ask for a password for the IMAP account and therefore does not download the mail. All it does it sit there saying connecting 0%. I have set the account up with the same details in Thunderbird and the account works, so it is not a problem with the email account. The problem seems to be with evolution in natty. I have tested a few mail accounts and all do the same thing. In 10.10 we were using evolution and IMAP without a problem. Please can someone take a look at this problem?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

apt-cache policy evolution
evolution:
  Installed: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 2.32.2-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evolution 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 10 09:58:07 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Joakim Kargaard (jk-bluecubesystems)]

We turned off the proxy system wide and then evolution worked. So the problem seems to actually be that evolution does not work if there is a proxy server, which is a huge shortcoming.