adding a new account almost always fails silently

Adding the first account worked flawlessly, but since then evolution will just walk me through the new account wizard, congratulate me that I configured an account and that I should click "Apply" to activate it, and if I click "Apply" close the wizard, forget all the account information and do nothing.

The only example was a gmail imap accoun which I managed to add at the sixth or seventh try. I can't remember that I had done anything different on that try than before.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 20 09:11:13 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)