Evolution was working perfectly with one local e-mail, one remote e-mail
(IMAP), and two remote calendars (one CalDAV + one Google Calendar via CalDAV,
using an app password). Evolution v. 3.36.5-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 20.04.3.
This morning I added my Google work calendar and Gmail work e-mail (IMAP); no
2FA available on this account, so I enabled less secure app access in Google.
Everything appeared to be working fine, so I shut down my computer. The next
time I started it, I was unable to access *ANY* of my non-local e-mail or
calendar accounts.
In the e-mail pane, both accounts just said "Loading..." with the spinning
circle. They were never able to connect or display the folder list or any
messages.
Re calendars, when I started Evolution, it displayed the following error
message for each non-local calendar: "Failed to connect calendar 'CalDAV:
[account]' / Unauthorized." Pressing "Reconnect" did nothing; or, in the case
of my Google work account, it displayed what appeared to be a Google popup
asking for my username and password, and then asking me to confirm that I
wanted to allow Evolution to access my account. When I clicked yes, it
displayed an Evolution popup saysing "Google Calendar authentication request /
Login to your Google account and accept conditions in order to access your
calendar 'Google: [employer name]'. / URL: none-local:// / Requesting access
token, please wait..." Then it stalled there.
After deleting my Google work account (email and calendar) from Evolution, I
was able to reactivate my Fastmail email account by deleting and reinstalling
it, but I could not get any non-local calendars working again. In the end, I
deleted all Evolution data and config files, deleted all email and calendar
login credentials from the keyring, uninstalled and purged Evolution, then
reinstalled and rebuilt everything from scratch. Now I am back to where I
started.
My question is: Does anyone have any thoughts about what might have caused
this, and how I can avoid it? I need to have my work account accessible, but I
really, really don't want to go through that again.
Many thanks,
Julius
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