[Evolution-users] Unable to login to gmail on a fresh install

[Pete Biggs]

On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 20:49 +0000, Tim MCCONNELL via evolution-users
wrote:
> Hi folks I'm back, I have a fresh install of Evolution that when I
> try to add my gmail accounts it goes to the "Google Account
> Authorization" page and it never communicates with Google. The error
> "O Auth2 secret not found" If I choose to open in a browser or
> Firefox ESR it will give Evolution the access and goes to the normal
> Google home screen. 

Can you just confirm that you are configuring the account from within
Evolution.

> My Version of Evolution:3.56.1-1 on Debian Trixie with desktop  Mate
> 1.26.2. 
> I have installed Seahorse, I did that before I installed Evolution. 
> Ideas welcome. 
> 
It's not Seahorse that is necessary, it's gnome-keyring.  Seahorse is
"just" a frontend gui and doesn't store any authentication information
itself.

But as with most issues with Evolution I suggest you run it from the
terminal to see if there are any errors reported.  You can also run it
with 'OAUTH2_DEBUG=1' to see the chatter from the OAUTH2 process.

P.