[Evolution-hackers] Setting up Evolution behind a university firewall

[Varun Paliwal <varunpaliwal bits gmail com>]

Hi,

I am currently behind a university proxy (squid) server and all access
to the internet has to go  through it. How do i configure evolution to
be able to access my gmail account via the proxy server? 
As far i searched online, it seems evolution can only connect via a
direct connection to the internet and there is no way to input any
proxy settings.

I am using version 2.22.3.1 of Evolution and there is no Network Preferences tab in the Edit->Preferences.
I am using Debian 5.04 

I have set the correct proxy in system preferences but evolution doesn't seem to be reading from there.

Can someone please help?

Thanks.
-Varun