Re: [Evolution] send / receive grayed out

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 22:43 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> On 04/11/2010 20:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On 11/4/10 3:38 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> > > On 04/11/2010 19:00, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 20:05 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> > > > > Good day,
> > > > > Evolution 2.30.3
> > > > > Debian squeeze freeze fully updated.
> > > > > After installing squeeze i tried to use evolution but the **  send /
> > > > > receive  ** stays grayed out.
> > > > > The rest seems fine.
> > > > You are offline.
> > > Not offline - Icedove is working fine on another mail address 
> >
> > Doesn't matter. Did you read the URL Pete sent:
> > http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_is_Evolution_offline_when_my_net_connection_is_working.3F 
> >
> >
> > Summary: you may have NetworkManager misconfigured.
> >
> > poc
> This is a standalone laptop connected to dsl modem by cable.
> Funny.. Been using evo on suse,  ubuntu, pclinux with no problem.
> So I am stucked.

Just because it works properly with other distros doesn't mean that
Debian hasn't mucked something up.

Bottom line is this: Evo gets its connection status from NetworkManager,
if NM is not configured properly Evo thinks that there is no network
connection and so goes off-line.  Most distros manage configure NM
properly, Debian obviously doesn't.

Like Patrick I use Fedora, so I can't help you with Debian, sorry.
However, it doesn't take an awful lot of effort to search on Google -
e.g. search for "debian network manager config" and it comes up with a
Debian wiki page as the first offering:

  http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager

and in there there is a whole section on "NetworkManager in Squeeze" - I
think you'll probably find that it will help you.  There's even a bug
reference for it:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530024

As others said - not an Evo issue.

P.