On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 21:00 +0300, Антон Козловский wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to use Evolution to manage my work emails that is configured with
> Exchange.
> So, here is the steps I am doing:
> 1. Install evolution (ver. 3.20.5) and evolution-ews.
> 2. Restarted the system.
> 3. Started evolution as a non-privileged user. Added exchange account.
> 4. Reboot
> 5. Run as a non-privileged user.

Why did you restart and reboot? This is pointless.

> The application just asking me to provide a password.

An account password or a keyring password (for your local Gnome
keyring)?

> Recently I was able to configure the evolution, but I have to run it as
> root.

You definitely do *not* want to do this. It should never be necessary
under any circumstance.

> Now, even if I'll run Evolution with sudo, the result will be the same.
> 
> I was tried many times to configure it and the result always different.
> Sometimes it is working (but only under root) sometimes not.

Sounds like a problem with gnome-keyring but without more information
it's hard to tell.

I suggest you create a new local user and try to set up Evolution while
logged in as that user. That will at least help to narrow down the
problem.

> But when
> Evolution appears to work there is a problem that it just hangs while
> updating the folders.

That sounds like a different problem.

poc

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