Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.32.1/GNOME 3 cannot connect to server...

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 17:34 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:23 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I have one openSUSE 11.4 workstation [desktop] that is having problems
> > after upgrading to GNOME 3.
> > Evolution 2.32.1 and Empathy start but never seem to connect.  Evolution
> > is just checking-folders and empathy is "Connecting..."   Eventually it
> > fails with cannot-connect-to... but other IMAP clients work find and I
> > can telnet to the IMAP port of the IMAP host.
> Do other IMAP clients also respect/use the GNOME-wide network/proxy
> settings that you are maybe wrong on your machine for whatever reason?

In gconf SOCKS entries were defined although they were un-set in the
Network Settings dialog; but the Network Settings dialog complains that
the version of Network Manager is incompatible.  So something is going
on in the GNOME3 installation.

Deleting the keys via gconf-edit fixed the issue; Evolution can now
connect.