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

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le ven 15/11/2002 à 00:20, Mark Gordon a écrit :
> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 10:37, Hans-Göran Puke wrote:
> > 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
>
> I followed the instructions from the web site and got it to work under
> Mandrake 9.0.  I'll concede that the current instructions are
> exceptionally error-prone.  You may want to try running "gconftool -a
> /system/gnome-vfs" to double-check what you entered.  We're working on
> getting a GUI front-end for this out the door in the near future that
> will make the error-prone manual entry unnecessary.

You shouldn't need to touch gnome-vfs keys for Mandrake 9.0 because I
patched gnome-vfs1 to use the same keys as gnome-vfs2. Therefore, using
GNOME2 network configuration applet will work with evolution..
-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
MandrakeSoft