no send/receive in evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 00:34 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:23 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> > My send/receive button in evolution is grayed out so unusable. Is there 
> > any option to re-enable it? Anybody else seeing this? 
> 
> You're probably "working offline," see the file menu on the main window,
> or the plug and socket icon at the bottom left of the main window.
> 
> > Also, sometimes when sending messages they just get stuck in the Outbox. 
> > I'd have to click on send/receive, but I can't.
> 
> Again, probably the same thing.  You may have accidentally put yours
> into offline mode, or NetworkManager may have done so (it deciding that
> you're offline, so it puts your applications into offline mode, and
> mayn't put them back into online mode when you go online).

Sometimes NM *thinks* you're offline when you aren't, and apps like Evo
will believe it. This can happen if you haven't configured NM to manage
your interface.

poc