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

[Tim McConnell]

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??
> 
> Chad Rider

Hi Chad,
 
I'm on Debian Testing and it has version 3.56.2-8 It doesn't experience
those errors. Maybe Ubuntu has a backports type of thing like Debian
does? To test your theory about where O auth is getting lost install
Seahorse and see if there are keys for each of your accounts. My
suspicion is Gnome key ring is having issues and it's not Firefox or
Evolution that's having the issue. 
 

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Tim McConnell