I have this bug since evolution 2.4. re-emerge don't solve the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a new account (pop3) 2.Try to change information via account properties 3. Actual Results: If something change, the validate button can't be clicked. Expected Results: can modify account without delete it and recreate it after. emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/gentopia" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus directfb dts dvd eds emacs emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis wmf xine xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Updating to gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.4.2.1 seems to fix the problem.