Evolution not online?

[NoOp]

On 12/02/2010 05:36 AM, Tomas Alberto Ramirez Andujar wrote:
> Hi, thank you all for your replays regarding the online ofline issue but
> none of the mentioned option are active, i am aware of the
> offline-online indicator in Ev but no luck with that working. I manage
> to get online automatically with Thunderbird but that's not my no.1
> choice. Any other suggestions will be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Tommie 

Please bottom post on this list (meaning to put your reply below mine) -
thanks :-)

As Alan mentioned it appears to be Network Manager (NM) related:
http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ
<http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_is_Evolution_offline_when_my_net_connection_is_working.3F>

Given that you are using dialup, Evo is probably not seeing connect
information from NM. So let's try looking in launchpad to see if there
are any related bugs there:

https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=evolution+%2Bdialup

Looks like a few prospects there... But this looks like the Mother Ship:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/191889?comments=all>
[[MASTER] [WORKAROUND] "Offline Mode" feature fails to detect proper
online state for networks that are managed outside of network manager.]

Maybe you can try Workaround 2:
<quote>
Workaround 2: (make NM to be always online) ->
 add a non existing interface to /etc/network/interfaces, like:

iface eth1000 inet dhcp
</quote>

More:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/82335>
[network-manager should not set offline mode when it manages no device]

Good luck as it doesn't look like an easy fix.