Evolution Highly Broken

[John Stilian]

Installed Ubuntu RC today. Evolution 2.0.2 is part of the package.
Unfortunately, I'm unable to either check or send mail without jumping through
hoops, which was not previously the case using Evolution 2.0.1 from Debian
Experimental.

Mail server provides IMAP and SMTP over SSL using a self-signed certificate.

I'm completely unable to connect to the IMAP server with SSL enabled with the
following error:
  Error while Scanning folders in "IMAP server mail.jstilian.net".
  Failed to connect to IMAP server mail.jstilian.net in secure mode: SSL
negotiations failed.
Connection works with SSL disabled, but this is is not a good solution. Output
of evolution --debug appears useless.

Attempting to check supported authentication types for SMTP fails regardless of
SSL usage. Evolution freezes at "Connecting to Server". Manually selecting Login
works, but Evolution shouldn't hang here.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68444: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68444

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've reported the issue here:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68444

I guess upstream will need extra details on this ...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream comment:

"works fine for me. you're going to need to provide more info, like...
is the server using the ssl-port? (465 for smtp or 993 for imap, etc)
or does it use the STARTTLS extension on the cleartext port?

what SSL setting did you use? Always? Whenever-Possible?

note that "Always" first tries to connect to the ssl-port. if that
fails, it falls back to the cleartext port but uses STARTTLS. If that
fails, then the connection process fails and we throw up an error dialog.

Whenever-Possible only tries the cleartext port but uses STARTTLS if
available.

based on the error message you posted, looks like Evolution is trying
to connect on the cleartext port using the STARTTLS extension but the
process is failing because Mozilla's NSS libraries and the server
cannot agree on encryption stuff or something, in which case - not an
evolution bug.

if this is the case, you'll have to report the bug to Mozilla"

Please provide the asked details

[John Stilian (john+ubuntu-bugzilla)]

Upstream bug is closed. The IMAP problem is likely on the server end, and the
SMTP problem has another bug associated with it.