On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 11:03 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 15:18 +0530, Varun Paliwal wrote: > > I am currently behind a university proxy (squid) server and all access > > to the internet has to go through it. How do i configure evolution to > > be able to access my gmail account via the proxy server? > > As far i searched online, it seems evolution can only connect via a > > direct connection to the internet and there is no way to input any > > proxy settings. > > > > I am using version 2.22.3.1 of Evolution and there is no Network > > Preferences tab in the Edit->Preferences. > > I am using Debian 5.04 > > > > I have set the correct proxy in system preferences but evolution > > doesn't seem to be reading from there. > > > > Can someone please help? > > Hi, > there is not much help, otherwise you would receive a reply on your > previous two mails. That you do not receive a reply doesn't mean people > are ignoring you, it means nobody knows. Usually. > > Anyway, even with "Network Preferences" tab it will not work, as it is > working for "all" but mailer parts of Evolution, if I recall correctly. > I'm not much knowledgeable on this, but try to use some local tunnel or > something like that, which will use the system proxy, and in evolution, > instead of connecting to the remote server connect to that tunnel. > I guess it should work, but I do not know how to do that. I'm sorry. > Bye, > Milan >
Evolution should be able to use the gnome proxy settings from the desktop. However a quick search shows it may be buggy in older versions such as you have. Maybe time to update? BillK _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
