Re: [Evolution] Send/Receive Button transparent

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 13:02 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 09:56 -0500, lance longstreth wrote:
> > I am new to evolution an am trying to set it up for my personal use on a 
> > Debian 64bit platform. The version of evolution I installed is 2.6.3. I 
> > have created my mail accounts and see them listed under preferences > 
> > mail accounts.
> >
> > My problem is that the SEND/RECEIVE button is greyed out and the F9 key 
> > does nothing. Is thier something else that I need to do or set to 
> > activate it for use
>
> Look at the lower left corner. You should see an icon representing a
> plugged-in connection, showing that Evo is online. If the two parts of
> the icon are separated by a red 'X', Evo thinks you are offline. Just
> click on the icon to go online.

I just noticed you're using version 2.6.3. This is really old and may
not have the icon I mentioned (I don't remember).

I strongly urge you to get a later version. The latest stable one is
2.22.3.

poc