[Evolution-users] Authorization with Googe fails after period of working...

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2025-12-28 at 10:40 -0500, Chad Rider via evolution-users
wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I use Evolution 3.52.3-0ubuntu1.1  Recently my Evolution stopped
> Authorizing/authenticating with Google mail.  I get messages ike
> this:
> Failed to connect address book “chadriderba at gmail.com : Address Book”
> Timeout was reached
> OR
> Failed to connect calendar “ceriderjr at gmail.com : Busy”
> 
> I browsed various online sources, followed a bunch of instructions
> and had
> no success.  Whenever I reached the authentication dialogs, they
> would
> appear to work, but I would still fail to authorize.
> 
> SO, I reinstalled, completely. (new repository, etc.)
> It worked!  It wasn't smooth, sometimes the authentication dialogs
> with
> Google worked in funky ways, but I was sending and receiving mail and
> calendar and address books for three accounts.  Then,, about a week
> later,
> it started failing again.
> 
> ARGGGH!
> 
> I have two suppositions:
> 
>    1. Evolution somehow loses some critical part of the OAUTH dialog
> and
>    doesn't know that it did.
>    2. Firefox does not display/handle the
> authentication/authorization
>    dialogs correctly and Evolution doesn't get the bits it needs.
> 
> I have NOT tried making chrome/chromium the default browser, but I
> think I
> may try that to see if it handles the authorization dialog boxes
> differently..
> 
> Anyone have any clue??

You appear to be using two different Gmail accounts
(chadriderba at gmail.com and ceriderjr at gmail.com), so possibly something
is misconfigured.

Also, your version of Evolution is out of date. The current version is
3.56.x. Please clarify if you are using a Flatpak or a supported
package install.

poc