Ubuntu
evolution-mapi package

Immediately Fails to send thru exchange 2007

Bug #988396 reported by LebLinux on 2012-04-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #912275: Send mail impossible with "Use secure connection" checked. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution mapi	Invalid	High	gnome-bugs #665718
	evolution-mapi (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 beta and I have the following packages installed:

ii evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu3
groupware suite with mail client and organizer

ii evolution-common 3.2.3-0ubuntu3
architecture independent files for Evolution

ii evolution-data-server 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
evolution database backend server

ii evolution-data-server-common 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
architecture independent files for Evolution Data Server

ii evolution-exchange 3.2.1-2ubuntu3
Exchange plugin for the Evolution groupware suite

ii evolution-mapi 3.2.2-1
Exchange support for the Evolution groupware suite

ii evolution-plugins 3.2.3-0ubuntu3
standard plugins for Evolution

ii evolution-webcal 2.32.0-2ubuntu2
webcal: URL handler for GNOME and Evolution

ii libebackend-1.2-1 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
Utility library for evolution data servers

ii libebook-1.2-12 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
Client library for evolution address books

ii libecal-1.2-10 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
Client library for evolution calendars

ii libedata-book-1.2-11 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
Backend library for evolution address books

ii libedata-cal-1.2-13 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
Backend library for evolution calendars

ii libedataserver-1.2-15 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
Utility library for evolution data servers

ii libedataserverui-3.0-1 3.2.3-0ubuntu4
GUI utility library for evolution data servers

ii libevolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu3
evolution libraries

Expected: To send emails thru exchange 2007

Evolution connects without a problem to my mailbox on exchange 2007 server
and can receive emails/folder however when I send an email to anyone an
immediate error pops up.

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LebLinux (leblinux) wrote on 2012-04-25:

Here is the error when I press send:

http://db.tt/j0VXol0O

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LebLinux (leblinux) wrote on 2012-04-25:

This guy from bugzilla solved the issue for Fedora users here is his respond about the bug:

Milan Crha [evolution-mapi developer] 2011-11-24 13:21:39 UTC

Nice. I couldn't reproduce it the first time I created the account, the message
was sent, but when I closed evolution and run it again, and did almost the same
steps (instead of replying I created a new message), then the message sending
failed. Looking into GConf key /apps/evolution/mail/accounts the corresponding
one for the MAPI account has its <url /> for <source /> with a 'profile'
parameter, but the <transport><url /></transport> is without that 'profile'
parameter, which makes it fail. A workaround is to add the parameter into the
XML blob into the GConf key (it can be tricky).

I'll try to workaround this in evo-mapi sources. I'm confirming the bug.

Could anyone patch it please?

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-04-27

Changed in evolution-mapi:
importance:	Unknown → High
status:	Unknown → Invalid

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Sean Seago (speedkreature) wrote on 2012-11-28:

This bug appears to be a duplicate of bug 912275 and 1003274. The work around for this problem solves the issue of the other two bugs.

Using gconf-editor, one can go to: /apps/evolution/mail/accounts
and from there copy the contents of the "account" key. Create a key called "transport" if it's not present, and paste the contents of the "account" key into it.

Doing this allows the "Use secure connection" option to function correctly.