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Following a reboot (which is rare) I had problems connecting to our Exch 2003 server via Evolution in Intrepid – it simply wouldn’t authenticate. I deleted the mailbox account and tried to recreate, populating all the fields…..to be greeted with an “Exchange Account is Offline” message.

Following this I ran evolution from the command line – the output of which was:

e-data-server-ui-Message: Unable to find password(s) in keyring (Keyring reports: No matching results)
e-data-server-ui-Message: Key file does not have group ‘Passwords-Exchange’

I checked available keys in my keychain and the correct keys were there – along with appropriate passwords….

The I stumbled across the following bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-exchange/+bug/207723

Where I found this comment from Timothy Alexander:

“Something that worked for me was clearing the “mailbox name” under exchange settings, and reauthenticating on that page. The auth went through fine, and it filled out the mailbox again (exactly the same way) but after a restart of evolution it worked fine.”

I tried removing the mailbox name and clicking authenticate, was greeted with the usual errors, but following a restart of evolution it worked!