Myself and others were experiencing a problem where evolution suddenly refused to send plain-text passwords. Forum thread can be found at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=2045023 . Outside of that thread I filed a bug with ximian here: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=71414 I was told it was fixed in CVS and so found the patch. I am going to be attaching needed patch and ebuild diff for a 2.0.3-r2 ebuild.
Created attachment 50168 [details, diff] patch for mail-account-gui.c to remember authtype
Created attachment 50169 [details, diff] patch for evolution 2.0.3-r1 ebuild
*** Bug 80411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't see how bug 80411 is a duplicate of this. That bug describes app hanging/freezing with various gtk+ apps. This bug is a specific problem with evolution not saving a preference, and no hanging/freezing.
I have added this in cvs. Thank you for the bug tracking work.