Re: [Evolution] Send/Receive greyed out

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 09:58 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> I have a user with Evolution on a laptop, not currently in the office.
> She is reasonably tech-savvy, but not familiar with the command line or
> file system data structures.
>
> She is using the evolution-exchange backend on Ubuntu Hardy (I don't
> have a hardy installation here so that I can check out the evo version.)
>
> It is not retrieving mail and the Send/Receive button is greyed.  Any
> ideas I could send to her so that she gets it working this week while
> away?

Is the icon at the bottom left showing that it is disconnected from the
network?  Evo's sense of network presence is through NetworkManager -
and sometimes that doesn't correctly relay the truth.  Try clicking on
the connection icon or File -> Work Offline.

P.