Re: [Evolution] GNOME proxy support in pre-2.24 releases?

["Akhil Laddha" <lakhil novell com>]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 20:22 -0500, Jeff wrote:
> Hello, I read up in the fine manual that Evo has a section for proxies
> in the preferences, with the option to have it automatically handled
> according to GNOME's settings, which is great.
>
> However, I have a computer running 2.22 and it doesn't have this
> setting (the manual section about proxies is absent, too). I will not
> be upgrading that computer for the foreseeable future, so I'd just
> like to know this: should I safely assume that Evolution 2.22 uses my
> gnome proxy settings transparently by default?

Please see 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548623

- Akhil

> Basically, my use case is hoping that setting gnome's proxy settings
> to point to a SSH tunnel is enough for using Evolution 2.22 over an
> unsecured public wifi.
>
> Thank you for your time.