no send/receive in evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 20:01 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:34:56 +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).
> > 
> 
> That was it. There was a power outage in my area and I do have power 
> backup for my pcs, but the router is not plugged into the ups. Before I 
> turned the pc off, NM must have forced evolution offline. I didn't know NM 
> had such powers. All is well now, thanks!

To be clear: NM isn't doing anything directly to Evo. Evo is doing it to
itself because it believes NM when the latter says it's offline.

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