[Evolution] Newbie: Evolution doesn't use proxy-config?

[Hans-Göran Puke <hans-goran puke era ericsson se>]

I recently downloaded and istalled evolution for Mandrake 9 (using red 
carpet).
On the "Summary" screen (I don't know if it is called that in English, 
since I get the user interface in Swedish, but you probably know what I 
mean, right?) evolution fails to download weather and news channels. I 
suppose it has to do with the fact that our company use a proxy-server 
to get to the internet. I used some info that I found on the Ximian 
web-site, telling me to use gconftool to configure the proxy (I am 
normally using KDE). However, it doesn't seem to do the trick. I also 
logged on to Gnome and used the gnome control panel to configure the 
proxy. It seems to work with the web-browser, but still not with 
evolution. Further more, when clicking on a URL in an e-mail nothing 
happens.

I would appreciate any help you could give that would enable me to solve 
this problem.

//Hans-Göran Puke, Linköping, Sweden