I recently upgraded from OpenSUSE 12.4 to 13.1 via switching repositories and doing an upgrade.
Evolution kept all the account data except it can no longer use my gmail.com address book (contact list) since the upgrade. It asks for my gmail password, then gives this error:
This address book cannot be opened. This either means that an incorrect URI was entered, or the server is unreachable.
Detailed error message: Unable to connect to '{username}@gmail.com': Cannot connect to the service's server.
I’ve been fighting with this for days: removed the address book & re-added it, uninstalled Evolution, rebooted, reinstalled Evolution, changed my gmail password; all to no effect. Also tried renaming (wiping) the .config/evolution/sources and .config/evolution/addressbook folders.
Am I missing some simple here, like a firewall setting?
On 2014-04-30 20:16, agd wrote:
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> I recently upgraded from OpenSUSE 12.4 to 13.1 via switching
> repositories and doing an upgrade.
Huh? 12.4 does not exist.
There is 11.4 and 12.3.
> Evolution kept all the account data except it can no longer use my
> gmail.com address book (contact list) since the upgrade. It asks for my
> gmail password, then gives this error:
I’m not familiar with that feature, but first thing would be to check
that you can browse to gmail.com.
About the firewall, it has a log (/var/log/firewall), so you can verify
if it intercepts something.
More info, seems there is an SSL handshake problem from any process on my machine talking to gmail.com. Trying to connect with Gnome Contacts online account to a gmail account gives this:
Please post another URL, that one wants me to give a password.
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