OK I fixed it.
Deleted my old account and set up a new account with a totally fictitious
name using my real credentials. It then (finally) asked me for my password
and started to collect mail. I then changed my account back to my proper
name whereupon Evo suddenly shut down. On re-opening, ever
I have been using evolution since the begining and have never had any issues
I couldn't solve myself. I have had to change my mail password and cannot
for the life of me change the password in Evo (running in Fedora 18 under
KDE). Normally in earlier versions a box would pop up asking me to enter