Evolution GSSAPI authentication does not work

thank you for your bug report, that's likely an upstream issue, could you open it on bugzilla.gnome.org where the people writting the code will read it too?

Right.

had a look and the bug has already been submitted there. just confirmed it.
attaching gnome bugzilla reference: Bug 554182 – GSSAPI not working

M.

Hi,

I'd like to share my opinions about the way of treating this (there are other too) issue.

1. Sure the bug is upstream. the fact is, thet Gnome team did not treat this at all (status UNCONFIRMED as of 13.11.2008) even if the bug has been firstly submitted 28.09.2008

2. The severity of this concrete bug is high, makes an email client unusable in corporate environment with Kerberos infrastructure deployed.

3. As an end user (or as system adminitrator) i don't care where the bug is, "upstream" is just not enough of an excuse to ignore this in a stable Ubuntu release

4. As a result Intrepid Ibex 8.10 is not usable in corporate environment. This is a problem, as my understanding is the one of the main goals of Canonical is to penetrate more especially this market segment.

This concrete bug has been reported when Ibex still in Beta stage. There were several ways to fix this and avoid releasing yet another "stable" release with known severe bugs.

- find and updated/corrected version in gnome if available and backport to Intrepid repos
- fix this by yourself (ubuntu team) and commit patch upstream (if they accept it)
- downgrade the package evolution + dependencies in Intrepid

all this can be done by system administrator himself, but surely you agree it's not a way to go when deploying widely in corporate environment.

Thank You,

Martin Simovic
Systems administrator
Concurrent Thinking Ltd.

the ubuntu desktop team has limited ressources and can't work on all the upstream issues raised, if the bug is fixed the change will likely be a candidate for a stable update, corporate users should stay on a lts version if they aim for stability

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-data-server - 2.24.3-0ubuntu1

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evolution-data-server (2.24.3-0ubuntu1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Bug Fixes:
    - #451734: Weather calendar getting wrong data for Blythe, California
    - #545834: IMAP summary headers are not updated on full message download
    - #546637: Mail opened from the "Unread mails" displays empty list
               (lp: #275952)
    - #552986: Fix for a crash in pop3_connect
    - #554182: GSSAPI not working with 2.24.0 (lp: #285520)
    - #555230: Autocompletion crash on broken vCard
    - #557348: Search folders with "Include threads" do not update reliably
    - #558744: Fix for a crash when started in offline mode (lp: #292637)
    - #558883: Evolution 2.24 is terribly slow with large IMAP folders
               (lp: #292739)
    - #558926: Unread message count in virtual folders is wrong (lp: #291881)
    - #559153: Migration fixes from Evolution 2.22 to Evolution 2.24
               (lp: #293207)
    - #559272: Infinite loop using a CalDAV source
    - #561081: "Moving" emails is broken
    - #561561: Use sufficiently large buffers for strftime
    - #562200: Left click of mouse disables calendar
    - #562228: Login to exchange fails if "mailbox" is filled manually in the config wizard
    - #564339: IMAP syncing performs too much local I/O
    - #564541: Fix for a crash doing a search in vFolders
    - #564954: "Match All" search folder shows no messages
    - #209514: Evolution Groupwise missing mails
    - #435632: Fix for a crash when moving contacts to a different addressbook
    - #440265: Groupwise Address Book Contact Lists Are Not Saved
    - #446290: GW Parallel clients & (un)read counts problems
    - #447121: Fix for a memory corruption in GroupWise
    - #448079: Instability in GroupWise on x86_64
    - #449916: Loss of data in Messages related to shared memos
               and Assigned tasks
    - #455939: Fix for a deadlock in evolution-data-server
    - #462575: Evolution does not honor the "Check for new messages
               in all folders" setting for GroupWise SOAP accounts

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:25:20 +0100

the new version is in jaunty now

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-data-server - 2.24.3-0ubuntu1

---------------
evolution-data-server (2.24.3-0ubuntu1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Bug Fixes:
    - #451734: Weather calendar getting wrong data for Blythe, California
    - #545834: IMAP summary headers are not updated on full message download
    - #546637: Mail opened from the "Unread mails" displays empty list
               (lp: #275952)
    - #552986: Fix for a crash in pop3_connect
    - #554182: GSSAPI not working with 2.24.0 (lp: #285520)
    - #555230: Autocompletion crash on broken vCard
    - #557348: Search folders with "Include threads" do not update reliably
    - #558744: Fix for a crash when started in offline mode (lp: #292637)
    - #558883: Evolution 2.24 is terribly slow with large IMAP folders
               (lp: #292739)
    - #558926: Unread message count in virtual folders is wrong (lp: #291881)
    - #559153: Migration fixes from Evolution 2.22 to Evolution 2.24
               (lp: #293207)
    - #559272: Infinite loop using a CalDAV source
    - #561081: "Moving" emails is broken
    - #561561: Use sufficiently large buffers for strftime
    - #562200: Left click of mouse disables calendar
    - #562228: Login to exchange fails if "mailbox" is filled manually in the config wizard
    - #564339: IMAP syncing performs too much local I/O
    - #564541: Fix for a crash doing a search in vFolders
    - #564954: "Match All" search folder shows no messages
    - #209514: Evolution Groupwise missing mails
    - #435632: Fix for a crash when moving contacts to a different addressbook
    - #440265: Groupwise Address Book Contact Lists Are Not Saved
    - #446290: GW Parallel clients & (un)read counts problems
    - #447121: Fix for a memory corruption in GroupWise
    - #448079: Instability in GroupWise on x86_64
    - #449916: Loss of data in Messages related to shared memos
               and Assigned tasks
    - #455939: Fix for a deadlock in evolution-data-server
    - #462575: Evolution does not honor the "Check for new messages
               in all folders" setting for GroupWise SOAP accounts

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:25:20 +0100