I have evolution 2.12.1 installed on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) along with the evolution-exchange plugin on my home desktop and laptop. For some time now, I’ve been unable to figure out why I can connect to exchange with no problems from my desktop, but not from my laptop. All operations using evolution on my laptop would take several minutes, or sometimes it seemed like everything would grind to a halt, leaving evolution completely unusable. I spent some time last night trying to get to the bottom of things, and stumbled across a thread that helped me make some progress. Thanks to joshmachine’s suggestion to start evolution with the E2K_DEBUG environment variable, something like

$ export E2K_DEBUG=4; evolution

I could view some exchange connector debugging output to figure out that evolution was timing out when trying to connect to the global catalog server I had configured. It turns out that this was the one setting these machines didn’t have in common! When I cleared the setting, everything worked flawlessly…well, almost. Now I have to figure out what’s causing the connection to the directory server to fail.

Something to add to the never ending list of things to do:
- Figure out why there isn’t a command line option in evolution to enable or increase the verbosity of debugging output for evolution and it’s plugins.