[Evolution-users] ews - failed to update GAL

[Torsten Krah]

Am Dienstag, dem 22.04.2025 um 13:51 +0200 schrieb Milan Crha via
evolution-users:
> 	Hi,
> when you open the mail account Properties->Receiving Options tab of
> the
> EWS account, does it have set at the bottom to use the offline GAL,
> please? 

Yes, I have checked to use the offline GAL and I can hit the fetch
button there and choose the only existing entry there "Default Global
Address List".

> The OAB URL is needed to have the option accessible, but even
> with it the GAL is the "online address book" by default. If you have
> it, then maybe you face:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews/-/issues/277
> A fix for that landed in evolution-ews 3.52.4.

Looks promising, I'll try to compile my own package with that patch
applied, I'll report if that fixes it - I am / Ubuntu 24.x is on 3.52.3
at the moment.

> 
> For the password prompt you mentioned in the initial email, the
> failed
> request only verifies whether the account can be accessed, and it
> does
> that by peeking into your mail Inbox. It looks like the used
> credentials in that first request are not exactly the same as those
> used in the next request, like if something did not read them
> properly.

Gotcha, that would explain my observation.

> 
> I guess you use the NTLM authentication method.

Correct.

> 
> There was a bug about false GAL credential prompts, but I cannot find
> it right now. It still applies, I think. I recall I faced it from
> time
> to time, but very rarely, thus close to impossible to debug in my
> environment.

At the moment, if I start evolution I get a password prompt for the GAL
- sounds like this one maybe, anything I could analyze to push that
further?

Torsten