Confirmed. I personally see this happening every so often with gmail. Hitting OK will bring again the dialog (or pop up a new warning). Hitting CANCEL will allow Evolution to gracefully recover from whatever error, and enable it to log-in. I have seen it on POP only.
I will try to run Evolution with CAMEL_DEBUG=all, in the hope that I will eventually trap one such error. -- Flurry of password requests make evolution unusable with down email server https://launchpad.net/bugs/86670 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs