Due to persistent performance problems in version 128, I am trying to move from Thunderbird/Betterbird to Evolution. Since the version offered in the Ubuntu repository is out of date, I have installed Evolution flatpak 3.54.2 under Ubuntu Studio 24.04.1 LTS (which uses KDE).
I have managed to add a couple of mail accounts to Evolution, but my greatest hope and wish is to integrate it with Google Workspace. This is the main reason for me to try Evolution: to have an integrated view of my Google calendar, contacts and mail in one Linux application.
However, my attempts to create a corresponding collection account in Evolution are failing. Perhaps this is due to the login being routed through a professional domain hosted by Google. In other words, my login ID doesn’t end in @gmail.com. How should I proceed?
I think this should work in theory, I have a similar setup here. Does it work when disabling “Look up configuration with email domain” in the Collection Account setup dialog?
What do you mean “integrate it with Google Workspace”? My mail,
contacts, calendar etc. are on Google Workspace (this account) and
Gmail (my personal account) and accessible from Evolution (using IMAP
for the mail part).
I don’t understand what you’re asking.
poc
@poc Evolution suggests a “collection” account as the way to connect mail, calendar and contacts from a single account, so that is what I was trying. If I understand your response correctly, I should instead first set up my Google Workspace account as a mail account. Is that what you did?
Thanks for responding!
What does happen when you try to set up a Collection account? You only wrote that it “fails” but not what makes you think so.
@andre What happened was that it found the server (of my userid domain) but no mail, calendar or contacts. Your first post put me on the right track. I had to disable both “Look up configuration with email domain” and “Exchange Web Services autodiscovery”, then click on “Advanced Options” and enter “gmail.com” as the “Server”. I had to enter my password under “Look up for a CalDAV/CardDAV server”, but still had to login to Google via a pop-up to complete Oauth2 configuration. Now everything seems to be working as advertized. Thanks for your help!
Hi,
in this particular case, with Google, both methods are similar. When
entering the mail account directly, you are asked, at the end of the
wizard, whether you want to add also contacts and calendars (which
brings also tasks).
You are right that there is a problem when the mail domain does not end
with a @gmail.com. In such case, if the server itself does not have
set up auto-configuration hints (they can do it on their server by
providing a single file of the same format the Thunderbird and
Evolution uses, with the content referencing the gmail.com settings,
basically copying [1] and naming it
https://domain/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml or
https://autoconfig.domain/mail/config-v1.1.xml ), the mail settings
lookup fails.
The workaround is to use the File->New->Collection Account, fill your
email address and then expand the Advanced Options and set as the
server gmail.com and that’s all. After that just click
Lookup->Next->Next->Next->… (changing things appropriately along the
way, if you wish) and you are done, all evo can offer from the Google
is there.
Bye,
Milan
Yes, because it is my mail account. I’ve never set up a “collection
account”.
poc
@poc It seems that “Look up configuration” for a gmail.com account automatically finds the calendar and contacts and sets it up as a “Collection Account”.
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