Evolution not online?

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 14:56 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 1 December 2010 12:51, Tomas Alberto Ramirez Andujar
> <tramirez at educamaguey.rimed.cu> wrote:
> > I have Ubuntu 10.10 , using Gnome, I use Evolution at the office but at
> > home when i go on-line via modem my Evolution does not  go on-line, is
> > there anything else i need to do for this to work and download my
> > messages to my preferred email client, instead, and in the mean time i
> > am using Thunderbird.
> 
> Evolution tries to figure out if you're online from network manager.
> If you're using some other dialler then Evolution probably thinks
> you're offline. There's an option under the File menu to go online.

Just look in the lower left hand corner... you should see =()=  which
means it's connected. If you see =( )= then you're set to working
offline (not connected) and need to click on it to go into connected
mode. Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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