[64studio-devel] Evolution always starts offline

[Daniel James]

Hi Michael,

> Even if I start evolution from the shell with evolution --online, it
> starts offline!

The Network Manager applet would seem to be the reason:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400978

Evolution is trying to be too clever, and work out if you are offline by 
itself, regardless of what you tell it. Sounds like a case of HAL 9000 
syndrome to me :-)

If you don't use DHCP on your network, it's best to remove Network Manager:

apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome

or use Synaptic to do the same.

Cheers!

Daniel