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Re: evolution



On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 00:29, Martynas Domarkas wrote:
> Pn, 2003-06-27 05:59, Jean Christophe ANDRÉ rašė:
> > Matt Zimmerman écrivait :
> > > > There are a LOT of connetcions: ~700 in a 5 minutes. I did not find any
> > > > configuration options with that hosts.  What could it be? 
> > > This is surely an evolution "feature" where it means to provide you with
> > > news and information.
> > 
> > I would call this a "pain" instead of a "feature"...
> > 700 connections in 5 minutes is more than 2 in 1 second...
> > I thought "modern programers" of "modern software" (say evolution)
> > knew about twicing waiting time between each connection failure...
> > 
> > J.C.
> 
> Thats the best answer :-)))) As far as I know evolution has no
> configuration of proxy for WEB connection. So it very diligent tries
> show me stupid pictures about "enlarge your..." and so on, but without
> success. Hmmm, not bad. It's like kind of spam filter ;-)))))
> 
> 
> I'm kidding of course. Thanks to all for your answers. Now I configured
> evolution  download pictures from WEB only if sender is in my address
> book, and try all traffic going out of my box with destination port 80
> redirect to our proxy. 
> 
> And maybe somebody knows how to force evolution use proxy another (not
> transparent) way?
> 

Have you tried configuring Gnome to use a proxy?  I think I remember
reading that evolution obeys Gnome's setting somewhere...

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