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Evolution – Could not connect to Exchange backend process….

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This occasionally occurs for me in Evolution when picking up mail from my Exchange server. From this point new emails are displayed but don’t have any content. The solution – remove the Exchange directory’s. This should keep all settings, but then polls the mailbox again to collect content (NOTE: it’s a good idea to back up the contents of the /evolution directory first):

$evolution –force-shutdown
$ cd ~/.evolution
$ rm -rfv exchange/

Then restart Evolution and it should poll the mailbox and work!

EDIT:  This stopped working – now I have to run evolution as root and it seems to work again.  Very odd (& not very secure)

Written by Paul Morgan-Roach

February 27, 2008 at 8:48 am

Posted in Exchange, Linux

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