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evolution-exchange package

[12.04] evolution(-exchange) is trying to contact a ldap server

Bug #922573 reported by Michael Basse on 2012-01-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution-exchange	Invalid	Medium	gnome-bugs #668834
	evolution-exchange (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

when starting evolution from the shell, its trying to contact a ldap server

** WARNING **: LDAP authentication failed (0xffffffff (Can't contact LDAP server))

i never put ldap-settings inside evolution.

I am using evolution-exchange, so i dont know if that bug is related to evolution or evolution-exchange.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution-exchange 3.2.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.18-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 27 14:03:04 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution-exchange
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-04 (54 days ago)

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Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix) wrote on 2012-01-27:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-01-27

Changed in evolution-exchange:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-02-02

Changed in evolution-exchange:
status:	New → Incomplete

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-02-03

Changed in evolution-exchange:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Jeronimo (jscmenezes) wrote on 2012-04-02:

I am having this same issue

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Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix) wrote on 2012-04-03:

Maybe i have found the reason.

I am using evolution-exchange to contact OWA. OWA/Exchange is holding an
address-book. If the address-book from OWA can not be reached there is a
general error message "can't contact ldap-server".

So evolution is not really trying to contact an ldap-server. Just the
error-message is wrong. It must be something like "can't contact (OWA)-Server"
instead of "can't contact ldap-server"

See also
http://alpha-unix.de/~iceroot/ubuntu/evolution-wrong-message.png

This can easily be reproduced. When evolution is asking for the password for
the OWA-address-book just use a wrong password. It can also be reproduced, when
composing a message, click on "To" to open the address-book dialog and remove
the Lan-cable.

Imo there should be two things:

1. dont use ldap in the error-message when the target is not ldap
2. dont say "can't be reached" when the credentials are wrong (also see my bug
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668837)