Re: [Evolution] HTTP Proxy for downloading images.

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 04:08, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 01:31, Camron W. Fox wrote:
> > I followed the instructions on www.ximian.com:
> > 
> > [cwfox Narsil cwfox]$ gconftool --type=bool --set
> > /system/gnome-vfs/use-http-proxy "TRUE"
> > [cwfox Narsil cwfox]$ gconftool --type=string --set
> > /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-host "http://c02.naoj.org" 
> >  [cwfox Narsil cwfox]$ gconftool --type=int --set
> > /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-port "8080" 
> > 
> > with no joy. Any further suggestions?
> I think that's the gnome2-way of doing it.  
>
> Try, vi ~/.gnome/Gnome
>
> /Erik

That technique is useful for changing the default browser, but not proxy settings.  Recent versions of Evolution on GNOME2-based platforms have a patch to respect GNOME2 proxy settings if GNOME1.4 proxy settings don't exist, so the GNOME2 proxy configuration utility should work with at least Ximian's Evolution packages.

-Mark Gordon